

So, naturally, to commemorate Finding Nemo’s 17th anniversary, we’re going to rank all the characters from this iconic film. It was all, to quote my little turtle son Squirt, sweeeeet.Ī Marine Biologist Reveals What Hollywood Gets Wrong About the OceanĪnd if there’s anything you should know about myself and Megan Schuster, it’s that we love two things: the ocean and ranking things. (The film also hauled in more than $870 million at the box office, enough to justify a good-but-not-as-great sequel.) But what made Finding Nemo so transcendent for certain impressionable young viewers was the fact that it was set mostly below the surface, exploring a vibrant underwater world where sharks are trying to go vegetarian by attending AA-like meetings, sea turtles (who are totally high) ride gnarly currents, and fish living in a dentist’s office become obsessed with the minutiae of dental procedures. When Finding Nemo just kept swimming into our lives 17 years ago, it did what most Pixar movies set out to do: It made children laugh and adults cry. Welcome to The Ringer ’s Return to Summer Blockbuster Season, where we’ll feature different summer classics each week. 2020’s summer blockbuster season has been put on hold because of the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate the movies from the past that we flocked out of the sun and into air conditioning for.
