We went to see “Finding Nemo” today. It was excellent, exactly what we’ve come to expect from Pixar - great characterization, quirky humor, beautiful graphics, great fun. It moves between the two parallel plotlines enough that you are constantly interested (even if you are a small and listless 7-year-old - not to imply that I am!)

It failed to grab me quite as much as “Monsters, Inc.”, but to that statement I should add these provisos: A) I loved “Monsters Inc.” so much that I was livid it didn’t take Best Picture. Yeah, I know it wasn’t nominated. ALSO a crime! B) Monsters Inc. had an impossibly cute toddler. Due to the biological urges that periodically attempt to seize control of my mind, just about any cute toddler reduces me to a pile of quivering happy goo, let alone a toddler computer-generated to be the highest value of “cute” mathematically possible!

Finding Nemo has a quirky, fun take on sea life and its ecological vagaries; heart-warming lessons; amnesiac tropical fish; dentistry; and of course, explosions. It was great.