As much in its screenwriting as in its groundbreaking underwater visuals, Finding Nemo is a masterpiece.
Films in the top tier of Pixar's canon are so uniformly astonishing—quietly revolutionary—that choosing which is the best is daunting. As much in its screenwriting as in its groundbreaking underwater visuals, Finding Nemo is a masterpiece. Laugh-out-loud funny with an abundance of pathos, the underwater adventure is all about the woes of helicopter parenting, the inevitability of risk and even danger.