They're just doing what they do. As Nigel the Pelican tells Nemo at one point, "Fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat." That's perhaps the film's most interesting insight, that there are no true villains, just creatures that act according to their nature, and a few that transcend it. ...
Finding Nemoremains one of Pixar's most beloved films, telling the story of Marlin, a clownfish desperately searching for his missing son. On his quest, Marlin teams with a forgetful regal blue tang, Dory, as they venture through the vast sea (and beyond). While the film has stunning visu...
Nigel (Geoffrey Rush), who schemes with the aquarium dwellers and is no friend to the harbor seagulls, which are portrayed in a very bad light indeed. Perhaps the film’s best sight gag has a bunch of airborne gulls chase Nigel, who, in approaching the mast of a sailboat, suddenly tilts...
Marlin and Dory are shocked to see Nemo belly-up and believe he is truly dead. After they and Nigel are thrown out the window, Gill helps Nemo escape down the drain of the dentist's sink to the ocean. Deeply depressed in the belief that his rescue attempt amounted to nothing, Marlin ...
Nigel is an outgoing pelican whose friends with the Tank Gang and forms a close bond with Nemo following his capture and entrapment. The bird is voiced by Geoffrey Rush, who famously provided severalgreat quotes as Barbossa inPirates of the Caribbean. He's also played roles such as Lionel Lo...
The under-the-sea world that Pixar created for its 2003 animated feature Finding Nemo is so urgently adorable that I briefly reconsidered my passion for fish tacos. (Briefly.) Though that movie didn’t put me off of seafood entirely, it did carve out…
Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush ("Shine") winged it as the gossipy pelican Nigel. The "Finding Nemo" characters wouldn't have come off nearly as well if not for their splendid settings. In the next section, we offer insights into how their watery world was created....