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Because I live out on the West Coast, I don’t actually get to see my family very often when I’m here at school. It’s depressing, yes, a bit, but when I heard my dad was coming, boy was I happy. My mom declared that the ‘bank was coming into town,’ and what college student doesn’t like to hear that?

As I cleared my schedule for my dad, we made sure to do the one thing we most enjoy doing together: watching a movie.

Now, both of us are the kind of people who enjoy watching movies with other people. It gives it a level of comfort, and room for discussion afterward as well. To top it all off, it was pretty easy to tell that I was excited to be watching one of my favorite movies again—but this time in 3D.

For those who have never experienced Pixar’s underwater masterpiece, Finding Nemo, the title says it all. Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks), a worried clownfish father, embarks on a journey to find his son, Nemo, after he is taken from the ocean and put into a fish tank. On the way, Marlin literally bumps into a fish with short-term memory (voiced by Ellen Degeneres), as well as sharks, turtles, jellyfish, and everything in between.

What makes the movie so deep, though, are the dynamics between the characters, the relationships that are formed, the witty banter, and the true artistry of the animation—everything that makes Pixar so respected in the movie industry.

You’re probably sitting (or standing) there wondering why you should bother to watch this movie... again. You may have it on DVD. You may have a poster. You may have even seen the movie multiple times, and you could now repeat scenes if you wanted to. So if you’re thinking that watching it in 3D won’t be any different, then I’m here to tell you that you’re wrong. Not only are the effects in-depth (you can practically feel Dory bumping into you when she and Marlin first mean), but the colors are vibrant too. The jokes are twice as funny. The characters grow on you like they did before. Just seeing the whole film again is so surreal. It makes you young again, and it’s almost like it’s 2003 again.

Remember when you were watching the movie with your mother or father? You were probably eight, nine, ten…maybe even twelve. We all remember bursting out in laughter, throwing popcorn at the screen (popcorn that eventually fell onto laps of the children in front of us). The jokes about Darla and flushing toilets made us scream with excitement and made adults roll their eyes. But you knew they were enjoying it too because they were smiling and crying at all the right times.

Seeing Finding Nemo gives you a little piece of childhood back; and buddy, you should take it, because the ‘real world’ is only a sea anemone away. Once it comes, you never get it back.

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