Every Pixar Movie Ranked Worst To Best

9. Finding Nemo

Imagine the boldness of making a kids movie about the very real parental anxiety of losing a child. Imagine marketing that to kids. It's unthinkably impressive that Finding Nemo ever worked.

Pixar didn't do their fifth film by halves, spending years preparing to the extent that the animators all became qualified divers. And the result is the first real indication that the studio could do environmental animation on a grand scale that could take your breath away.

But this was no mere nature documentary of course and the canvas only tells half the story. The real reason Finding Nemo worked was in the characterisation, from the neurotic, wounded Marlin (voiced with typically impressive pathos by comedian Albert Brooks), to vulnerable clown Dory and a cast of supporting characters who dip in and out to make this a sort of Gulliver's Undersea Travels.