Synopsis
The story of Finding Nemo centers on a widowed
clownfish named Marlin and a blue tang fish named Dory traveling across
the ocean to Sydney to find Marlin's lost son,
Nemo.
Plot
A clownfish couple Marlin and Coral, are about to be the parents of 400
unborn children, However, a marauding barracuda attacks their home.
Marlin survives but the Barracuda eats Coral and 399 of her eggs.
However, Marlin sees that the Barracuda missed one egg and comes to its
aid. He promises that he will never let anything happen to the remaining
egg, which he names Nemo because that was one
of Coral's favorite names. 6 years ago later,
Nemo born with a deformed fin due to damage
the egg took during the barracuda attack begins his first day at school
and is eager to get going. However, his overprotective father Marlin is
nervous about letting his son go to school. After Marlin sends
Nemo off to class with his teacher Mr. Ray the
stingray, he goes to check on Nemo and catches
him about to swim out into open water. The two of them argue in front of
Nemo's classmates and
Nemo, grumpy with his father, swims away into
the open water. Once there, he is captured by a diver, who immediately
leaves on a speedboat. Marlin chases after the speedboat but soon loses
it. Asking for directions, he meets Dory, a blue tang who suffers from
short-term memory loss. She helps him find out that
Nemo has been taken to Sydney, and the two of
them travel there on the East Australian Current. During their time
together, Dory teaches Marlin to be more carefree. Meanwhile,
Nemo is placed in a fish tank in a dentist's
office. He discovers that he is to be the present of the dentist's niece
Darla, a serial fish killer according to the other fish in the tank as
she has no idea on how to properly care for fish leading to them quickly
dying under her care. Gill, one of the fish in the tank, proposes an
escape plan involving Nemo jamming the filter in the tanks, which
Nemo attempts, but initially fails at.
Meanwhile, Marlin and Dory meet fish-friendly sharks, who had sworn
never to eat a fellow fish, and they adopt Marlin and Dory as buddies.
Later, Marlin notices the main clue as to
Nemo's whereabouts is a mask. But when he and
Dory fight over how to read it, it hits her nose, causing a small
nosebleed, which Bruce, a shark, accidentally sniffs, causing him to go
wild. His shark friends tried to restrain him as the two fish trying to
escape. But an accidental torpedo launch causes every depth charge
nearby to explode, though no one gets killed. Later on, while Marlin and
Dory are sleeping, the sub they're on is about to tumble down into the
depths, as well as the mask. The two fish follow it down, as the
darkness overtakes them. Dory's forgetfulness causes her to think Marlin
is her conscience before they see a light, but it turns out to be a lure
from anglerfish. Marlin keeps it busy while Dory tries to read the mask,
giving her information which directs them to someplace called Sydney.
While they were on their mission to find Nemo,
Marlin and Dory stop to have a small talk. Marlin explains to her that
he could take it from here by himself he thinks Dory is so annoying when
she kept talking to herself and saying 'P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way,
Sydney' over and over again. When Marlin says he doesn't want Dory with
him, Dory starts crying and says Marlin doesn't like her. Marlin says
that he does, but to make things worse, he says it's a complicated
emotion. A school of Moonfish tells Marlin and Dory to take the East
Australian Current to Sydney but advises Dory to go through the trench,
but she forgets. Marlin's paranoia of the trench has them swim above it,
only to find a school of jellyfish above it. Luckily, the tops of the
jellyfish don't sting, so they treated it like a game. But Dory fails to
get out, having been stung repeatedly. Marlin manages to get her out
before passing out. He later awakes with a legion of sea turtles on the
East Australian Current. When he catches Dory still dead, he feels bad
for leading her over instead of through the trench; however, she makes a
full recovery also. After getting near their destination, they
accidentally get swallowed by a whale, who was chasing krill. When
Marlin fails to break out, once again, Dory swims down to him and says
the same eight words she said when she first met Marlin. While refusing
that rudely but sadly, Marlin tells his promise to
Nemo on Dory. She explains that Marlin can
never let anything happen to Nemo. This being
what should've happened to Marlin to protect his son, he sighs sadly.
While inside, Dory tries to talk to him the whale and the whale tells
them to let go as he sprouts them out. The tale travels faster than
Marlin by way of gossip among the sea creatures and eventually,
Nemo hears it from Nigel, a brown pelican who
occasionally comes to visit the fish in the tank. Upon hearing all of
his Dad's adventures, Nemo is inspired to
attempt to jam the filter again. This time he is successful. The tank
begins to get really really dirty. At this point in Gill's plan, the
dentist would take the fish out of the tank and into small plastic bags.
The fish would then roll out the window, onto an awning, across the
street, and into the conveniently situated harbor. However, the dentist
installs a laser filter which cleans the tank while the fish are
sleeping. Marlin and Dory are then swallowed by Gerald until Nigel makes
Gerald cough them up. The two fish meet Nigel who agrees to take them to
the dentist's office. While they are en route, the dentist puts
Nemo in a bag to give to his niece, but
Nemo gets the idea to pretend to be dead so
that the dentist will flush him down the potty, which will take
Nemo to the ocean. Marlin, Dory, and Nigel
arrive at the office and are horrified to see
Nemo dead. Gill saves
Nemo from getting thrown in the trash can
instead of the potty and helps Nemo escape the
dentist's sink. Marlin, depressed, thinking that he broke his promise,
determines to go home, meanwhile, Dory becomes forgetful again until she
meets Nemo. When she reads Sydney on a water
tube, her entire memory suddenly returns and helps Nemo finds Marlin by
forcing a crab to tell where Marlin went. With is information, Marlin
and Nemo are reunited, but moments later they
find that Dory is caught in a fishing net.
Nemo has a plan to save her, but Marlin is
reluctant to let him go for fear that he will lose him again. Marlin
realizes he must let him go, and Nemo's plan
succeeds. After their adventure, Marlin is now not nearly overprotective
of his son knowing he can look after himself. Dory also spends a lot of
time with the two, and she accompanies Marlin as he takes
Nemo to school. As an epilogue, the fish in
the dentist's fish tank is shown to succeed after a fashion in their
last escape attempt after sabotaging the filter. However, they are still
in their plastic bags, floating in the water. In a post-credits scene, a
quivering Blenny overcomes his fears and consumes the Anglerfish in a
single bite.
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