Female clownfish are quite a bit bigger than the males. Coral should not have been the same size as Marlin. [Coral was younger than Marlin, and had not completely reached full size yet.]
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Towards the middle of the movie, we see a shot with Nemo staring out of the tank, depressed. The camera slowly pans toward the side of the tank and Nemo is reflected in the glass twice. However, towards the end of the movie when Nemo is playing dead, all the fish swim to the other side of the tank and Bloat says something like, "What's happening? Why is he playing dead?" The camera pans to the side of the tank again, but the fish are only reflected once this time. They should have been reflected twice. See more...
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This is just an interesting anecdote: In an Australian newspaper, some poor irate viewer of 'Finding Nemo' wrote a long and indignant letter abusing the creators of this movie for using AMERICAN pelicans rather than AUSTRALIAN pelicans (noticeable only for the fact that Aussie pelicans don't have brown feathers and Nigel does). This anonymous person was 'disappointed that the creators couldn't even make the effort to use native Australian fauna'. The editor of the paper replied to the letter thusly: 'Thank you for your heartfelt contribution. We also noticed a glaring mistake in 'Finding Nemo': Fish can't talk.' However, this is in no way meant to offend the person who has already pointed out this mistake on this site. See more...
Finding Nemo (2003) - 57 corrections
Directed by Andrew Stanton, starring Albert Brooks, Alexander Gould, Allison Janney, Andrew Stanton, Austin Pendleton, Barry Humphries, Brad Garrett, Elizabeth Perkins, Ellen DeGeneres, Eric Bana, Geoffrey Rush, John Ratzenberger, Stephen Root, Willem Dafoe (add more)
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
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Female clownfish are quite a bit bigger than the males. Coral should not have been the same size as Marlin. [Coral was younger than Marlin, and had not completely reached full size yet.]
Bruce The Shark could not possibly have known that sea mines explode. To him, they'd be globes of metal bobbing about. If one of the mines in that minefield had gone off - allowing Bruce to see what a mine does - they would all have exploded. The shock wave underwater would have detonated all the mines - it's called a sympathetic or adiabatic explosion. Even if Bruce survived the experience, the minefield and wrecked U-boat wouldn't have. [How could he not possibly have known? It may be information that was imparted to him, much like he imparts it to the other characters. Or, considering it's estimated that Great Whites may live for 100 years or longer, he may have witnessed a mine explode at another in his life (like during WW2). Finally, under perfect conditions, one mine may detonate all the remaining mines, but perfect conditions don't always exist.]
Corrected by JC Fernandez
In the scene where the water in the whale is going down, Marlin asks the whale, "Do I taste good, Moby?" a reference to the popular whale book, Moby Dick. [Far too obvious to be trivia.]
Corrected by Phixius
At the end of the movie it shows all of the aquarium fish in the ocean inside of their bags. It also shows the bags almost completely out of the water with only a small portion under water while the bags are almost completely filled with water. With this amount of water the bags should be submerged underwater with only the little amount of air showing on the surface, because water is not lighter than water; water weighs the same. [It is not unreasonable to assume that the water in the fish bags had a lower salt content than the ocean water. Making the bags of lower density, this difference in salinity would explain why the bags were only partially submerged. Not all water does "weigh the same." I can't comment on the relative density of the fish to the ocean, but I imagine that could have something to do with it too. After all, dead fish tend to float in a tank, right?]
When Nemo and Dori are at the sharks' house, the bombs blow up with huge flames. That's not possible, since you can't have fire without oxygen. [Water IS oxygen and hydrogen.]
When Mr Ray arrives at the school near the start of the film the kids all scream his name, after which one child is heard saying 'Come on, Nemo'. Nemo had not introduced himself and nobody else had told them his name. [When Nemo meets the little squid, seahorse and other fish, he would have introduced himself then; there was plenty of time for him to have made introductions in the time that his father was talking with the other parents.]
In the scene where Bruce the shark takes Dory and Marlin to the sunken submarine, you can see Marlin through Bruce's fin. [I realize that it looks exactly like Bruce's fin is translucent. However, if you pay attention to the direction of his fin movements, his fin goes down far enough that we can see Marlin IN FRONT of it and not through it.]
In the scene where the dentist is doing a root canal, Bloat says "rubber dam and clamp installed?" and another fish replies "yes", but when the picture goes back to the dentist and patient you can plainly see that there is not a rubber dam on the patient. A rubber dam is a large piece of latex attached to a metal frame, to keep water from the dental handpiece from going into the patient's mouth. Although all of the dental jargon in the film is precisely accurate, this device would have been very noticeable. [Perhaps the fish don't know what they are talking about, seeing as how they are just fish, they might think a rubber dam and clamp are completely different things than they actually are. Therefore, it's a character mistake, not a movie mistake.
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In the scene where Marlin is taking Nemo to his first day of school, they pass two fish playing keep-away with a hermit crab's seashell. In the next shot the fish and crab are in the background still making the "keep-away" motions, but the shell is gone. [These are two different fish and a different crab. The "keep-away motions" are simply the fish jumping with excitement.]
At the start when Marlin takes Nemo into the school playground there is a shot of two fish bullying some kind of shelled sea creature, in the next shot behind Nemo the two fish bullies are a different colour. [These are two different fish and a different crab.]
After the Jellyfish adventure, Marlin and Dori are with the turtles. Marlin swims and sees Dori is in the turtle's shell, and she says: "99...100.", and then she starts seeking for the baby turtles. Earlier (and later) in the movie, you can notice that she forgets things in a few seconds. If she has such bad memory, how did she manage to count up to 100 without forgetting that she was playing "hide and seek" with the baby turtles? [Having Marlin around Dori's memory steadily improved as she states later on in the film. The best example of her improving memory was the fact she remembered the address of where they were going for almost the entire journery. Remembering what game she was playing and how far to count to 100 wasn't too far of a stretch at this point.]
Corrected by Lummie
All of the fish in the tank in the dentist's office come from the ocean, so it must be a saltwater tank. However Giggles, the fish that Darla killed in the picture, is a goldfish. Goldfish live in fresh water, and wouldn't be able to live in salt water. [There isn't much evidence to say that he kept the goldfish in that tank. All we know is Darla had the fish and probably had a tank at her house. The dentist never talked about having that fish, he just had a picture of Darla and the goldfish.]
Corrected by Lummie
In the dentist office, when the dentist accidentally hurts his patient (who screams while his mouth is still open) the dentist says something like, "Sorry Mr. Prime Minister." If you look closely, he IS the cartoon version of John Howard, the Prime Minister of Australia. [He looks nothing like John Howard. John Howard has white hair, is in his 60's, and has a round shaped head. The man seen in the dentist chair has black hair, looks to be in his late 20's - early 30's, and has a long vertical shaped head.]
With more than 400 dead - if you count the eggs and "Coral" - this is the Disney movie with the highest body count. [I disagree - take Mulan for example, with the Hun army (count in thousands), most of the Chinese army, the villagers (they found no survivors), the firework attendants.]
When Nemo is going through the plumbing pipe, he escapes through one of the air holes at the top of the pipe. But he would've been in the bottom portion of the pipe with the water, not on top with the air. Even if he did jump at one of the holes, there wouldn't have been any suction powerful enough to pull him through. [When we see Nemo travelling through the piping system, he is above sea level. Once under water (below sea level) the pipes are completely filled with water, except for the few bubbles of air we see.]
When Nemo goes up the filter the second time, the tank fish apparently pull up the same fake plant from the same spot they pulled it up the first time he got stuck in the filter. Since when did plastic aquarium plants grow back? [The plant is actually a fake plant. It was replaced in its correct spot after the first time they used it, so therefore, it was still there when they needed it again.]
At the end when those fish escaped the dentist office, where was the shrimp? [I heard this mistake elsewhere and I checked - the shrimp (Jacques) is there, just hidden behind some of the others, he is towards the left of the screen, I believe he is behind Bloat and Deb, but I'm not 100% sure.]
The three sharks said they were vegetarians. Bruce said their motto was, "Fish are our friends, not food." Sharks need to eat fish or they'll die. So, it's impossible for sharks not to eat fish. [Sharks can't talk, either. Neither do stingrays teach small fish of all kinds, and turtles are not surfer like hippies. It's a kid's cartoon, the exact dietary requirements of sharks don't really have to play into it.]
Corrected by Gary O'Reilly
The divers who capture Nemo return to their boat, which displays the US diving flag (red and white). But on the Great Barrier Reef, dive boats show the international dive flag (blue and white). [The traditional red & white diver-down flag is intended to protect divers themselves, while the blue & white alpha flag is intended to protect vessels from collision. Please see http://www.floridascubahound.com/dive_flag_laws.htm for further details.]
When Nemo goes into the filter for the second time to try and block it, the other aquarium fish panic and try to get him out, by using the long thin plant again. However, the only way for Nemo to reach this plant would be to block the filter, so would have no need of rescue. In other words it's impossible to escape the filter once he's in it without blocking it, so the other fishes' plan to get him out was a bit pointless. [The other fishes know that Nemo was successful in blocking the filter briefly last time, so it's reasonable for them to assume that he'll manage it again - getting the plant is to pull him out afterwards, assuming that it's all going to go wrong like it did last time. Besides, there's nothing else that they can do - it's better to do something, even if it might be pointless, than do nothing at all.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
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