Finding Nemo (2003 transcript)

Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures on May 30, 2003. It tells the story of the overly protective clownfish Marlin, voiced by Albert Brooks, who along with a regal tang named Dory, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, searches for his son Nemo, voiced by Alexander Gould. Along the way he learns to take risks and that his son is capable of taking care of himself.
 * Directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich. Story and Screenplay by Andrew Stanton.

The Drop Off

 * Marlin: [to Nemo] You were about to swim into open water!
 * Nemo: [furious] No, I wasn't gonna go out there.
 * Marlin: It's just a good thing I was here. If I hadn't arrived in time, I wouldn't know what...
 * Pearl: Sir, he wasn't gonna go.
 * Tad: Yeah, he was too afraid!
 * Nemo: [turns to Tad] No, I wasn't.
 * Marlin: This does not concern you, kids, and you're lucky I don't tell your parents you went out there. [to Nemo] You know you can't swim well.
 * Nemo: I can swim fine, Dad, okay?!
 * Marlin: No, it's not okay. You shouldn't be anywhere near here! Okay, I was right. You know what? Let's start school in a year or two. [starts to take Nemo away]
 * Nemo: [jerks out of his grasp] No, Father! Just because you're scared of the ocean, doesn't mean I am!
 * Marlin: Clearly, you're not ready and you're not coming back until you are. I think I can do these things, but I just can't, Nemo!
 * Nemo: I hate you.

Sharks

 * Bruce: Fish are friends, not food.
 * Anchor: Except stinkin' dolphins!
 * Chum: Dolphins?! Yeah, they think they're so cute! [mocks a dolphin] "Oh, look at me, I'm a flippy little dolphin, let me flip for you! Ain't I something?"
 * Marlin: No no no, he's my son. He was taken by these divers.
 * Dory: Oh, you poor fishes...
 * Chum: Humans! Think they own everything.
 * Anchor: Probably American!

Nemo's Initiation

 * Bloat: Nemo, newcomer of orange and white, you have been called forth to the top of Mount Wannahockaloogie to join with us, in the fraternal bonds... of tankhood.
 * Nemo: ...Huh?!
 * Peach: We want you in our club, kid.
 * Nemo: Really?
 * Bloat: IF...you are able to swim through, the Ring of FIRE! [nothing happens] Turn on the Ring of Fire! The Ring of Fire!
 * [Jacques suddenly comes to attention]
 * Jacques: Sorry!
 * Bloat: You said you could do this!
 * [bubbles explode out of the top of Wannahockaloogie Mountain]
 * Bloat: The Ring of Fire!
 * Bloat: Nemo, newcomer of orange and white, you have been called forth to the top of Mount Wannahockaloogie to join with us, in the fraternal bonds... of tankhood.
 * Nemo: ...Huh?!
 * Peach: We want you in our club, kid.
 * Nemo: Really?
 * Bloat: IF...you are able to swim through, the Ring of FIRE! [nothing happens] Turn on the Ring of Fire! The Ring of Fire!
 * [Jacques suddenly comes to attention]
 * Jacques: Sorry!
 * Bloat: You said you could do this!
 * [bubbles explode out of the top of Wannahockaloogie Mountain]
 * Bloat: The Ring of Fire!

Fish Impressions

 * Dory: Whoa. Nice trench. [echoing] Hello! Okay, let's go.
 * Marlin: Bad trench, bad trench. Come on, we're going to swim over this thing. [starts to swim over]
 * Dory: Whoa, whoa, partners. Little red and orange flag going up. Something's telling me we should swim through it, not over it.
 * Marlin: [comes back] Are you looking at this thing? It's got death all over it!
 * Dory: I'm sorry. But I really, really, really think we should swim through.
 * Marlin: And I am really, really done talking about this! Over we go!
 * Dory: Come on, trust me on this.
 * Marlin: Trust you?
 * Dory: Yes, trust. It's what friends do.
 * Marlin: ...Look, something's shiny!
 * Dory: Where?!
 * Marlin: Oh, it just swam over the trench! Come on, follow me.
 * Dory: Okay!

Sea Turtles

 * Marlin: But, but, dude. How do you know when they're ready?
 * Crush: Well, you never really know you know, but when they know, you'll know, ya know?

Inside the Whale

 * Dory: [swims upside down] C'mon! You gotta try this!
 * Marlin: Will you just stop it?!
 * Dory: Why? What's wrong?
 * Marlin: We're in a whale, don't you get it?!
 * Dory: A whale?
 * Marlin: A whale! Because you asked for help, and now we're stuck here!
 * Dory: [looks around her] Wow. A whale. You know, I speak whale--
 * Marlin: No, you're insane! You can't speak whale! I have to get out! [bumps into the whale's baleen] I have to find my son! [bumps again] I have to tell him... [bumps repeatedly] ...how, old, sea, turtles, are!

Pelicans

 * [hundreds of seagulls surround Marlin and Dory]
 * Seagull: Mine.
 * Nigel: [quiet and controlled] Okay. Don't make any sudden moves. Hop inside my mouth, if you want to live.
 * Marlin: "Hop in your mouth," huh? And how does that make me live?
 * Seagull: Mine?
 * Nigel: Because I can take you to your son.
 * Marlin: Yeah, right.
 * Nigel: No. I know your son. He's small and orange, he has a gimpy fin on one side.
 * Marlin: That's Nemo!
 * [the seagulls suddenly attack]

Nemo and Dory

 * Dory: Have you seen an orange fish swim by? It looks just like them. [points at Nemo]
 * Nemo: But bigger!
 * Crab: Yeah, I saw him, Bluey. But I'm not telling you where he went, and there's no way you're gonna make me!
 * [Dory glares at the crab, then holds him out of water for the seagulls to see]
 * Seagull: Mine!
 * Crab: All right! I'll talk, I'll talk! He went to the fishing grounds!
 * Seagulls: Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine!

Reunion

 * Nemo: Father?
 * Marlin: Oh, thank goodness.
 * Nemo: Father, I don't hate you.
 * Marlin: No, no, no. I'm so sorry, Nemo. Hey, guess what?
 * Nemo: What?
 * Marlin: Sea turtles? I met one! And he was 150 years old.
 * Nemo: 150?
 * Marlin: Yep.
 * Nemo: 'Cause Sandy Plankton said they only live to be 100.
 * Marlin: Sandy Plankton? Do you think I would cross the entire ocean and not know as much as Sandy Plankton!? [Nemo laughs] He was 150, not 100! Who is this Sandy Plankton who knows everything?

About Finding Nemo

 * By far the biggest challenge was getting the water right. Water has always been a Holy Grail for CG animators because it’s not a fixed medium, it’s constantly shifting and changing.
 * Andrew Stanton in "Finding Nemo - An interview with Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich" by Graeme Kay, Indie London.


 * Way back during the first beginnings of Toy Story, believe it or not. I was at an aquarium, and I was new to computer graphics, and I remember just looking at the underwater environment and thinking we could mimic this exactly in computer graphics.
 * So that was on the back burner of my brain all through Toy Story and A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2. I kept thinking about what story I'd want to tell in an underwater setting, and I remembered this dentist's office that I went to as a kid. It had a tank in the lobby, and I used to think about whether those fish wanted to go home, and what it must be like to be in this tacky little tank with a treasure chest, and a scuba diver. All those kind of things.
 * Andrew Stanton in "Andrew Stanton Lee Unkrich Finding Nemo Interview", by Nev Pierce BBC, 09/30/2003.

Voice cast

 * Alexander Gould - Nemo
 * Albert Brooks - Marlin
 * Ellen DeGeneres - Dory
 * Willem Dafoe - Gill
 * Brad Garrett - Bloat
 * Austin Pendleton - Gurgle
 * Stephen Root - Bubbles
 * Vicki Lewis - Deb (and "Flo", Deb's reflection)
 * Joe Ranft - Jacques
 * Allison Janney - Peach
 * Geoffrey Rush - Nigel
 * John Ratzenberger - Fish School
 * Andrew Stanton - Crush
 * Nicholas Bird - Squirt
 * Bob Peterson - Mr. Ray
 * Barry Humphries - Bruce
 * Eric Bana - Anchor
 * Bruce Spence - Chum
 * Jordy Ranft - Tad
 * Erica Beck - Pearl
 * Erik Per Sullivan - Sheldon
 * Bill Hunter - Dentist
 * LuLu Ebeling - Darla
 * Elizabeth Perkins - Coral
 * Rove McManus - Crab
 * Carlos Alazraqui - Phil
 * Phil Proctor - Bob
 * Jim Ward - Ted