“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…” You can’t think of Finding Nemo without thinking about that line, and it comes from a part written specifically for Ellen DeGeneres, due to her constantly changing topics on her talk show. The 2003 movie would go on to score a 99% Rotten Tomatoes score, but unfortunately, the effect that the story was meant to have ended up being the opposite.
Finding Nemo currently sits in the No. 35 spot on Rotten Tomatoes’ best movies ever. It’s much further down on the IMDb best movies ever list, sitting in No. 162. This lists are constantly changing with new movies joining, and one thing the positions make clear is that this is a highly recommended flick for families, with a message that ended up backfiring.
The original message was about being anti-pet, but instead, it led to a rise in people looking for clown fish — by as much as 40%. Then people started to feel guilty, so they released the fish back into the waters, but not in areas where they could survive. Some children would flush their fish down the drain, believing the line that “all drains lead to the ocean,” leading to plumbers having to share that isn’t the case at all!
Finding Nemo even had to be recreated. At first, it was considered too realistic, with the underwater scenes having the water and light dynamics set in a way that made people feeling like they were there. Director Andrew Stanton realized that this could be a mistake, as it would make many people feel like they were watching live-action footage of real fish, so the creators took a step back.
Nemo and Dory from Finding Nemo, one of the exhibits at the Mundo Pixar Experience immersive exhibition at the purpose-built venue in Wembley Park, north London. The exhibition, which runs until June, coincides with the 40th anniversary of Pixar’s first ever release in 1986. Picture Thursday February 12, 2026. (Photo by Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images)It was also going to be slightly darker than it ended up being, with Stanton explaining to the BBC that “It was structured differently. We sort of doled out the tragedy throughout the movie, and that gave it a sense of foreboding all the time.”
Of course, there is one element that marine biologists were quick to point out was incorrect: the gender of the fish. When female clown fish die, the male would change sex to female. Marlin should have switched after the death of Coral.
In 2016, a direct sequel to Finding Nemo was finally developed. Finding Dory took us on a new adventure, set just a year after the events of the original movie. There has been interest in more, but there’s not been a storyline developed just yet.
That’s not all! There is going to be a theatrical short called Loving Dory, which will be released with an upcoming Pixar movie. The exact movie hasn’t been confirmed just yet, but the short itself is set to be a message about pollution in the ocean, as Dory mistakes a plastic bag for a jellyfish and falls in love with it.
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