Grown-ups may experience some restlessness as sentimentality seeps in. The voice cast is highly recognisable and the scripted characterisations capitalise on actors' familiar mannerisms - particularly Brooks' perennially neurotic, pessimistic schtick wrapped up in the anxious Marlin DeGeneres' perky, goofy Dory (who wittily suffers from short-term memory loss and regularly has to be reminded of the story so far) Dafoe's sinister gravitas in the battered, grimly determined Gill and Rush's uninhibited pizzazz for Nigel the pelican. Yet it's all beautifully composed and consistently charming, as Disney's bacon-saving association with the inventive Pixar studio strikes gold again in a perfectly family-oriented pitch of adventure, humour and thinly-veiled life lessons for the sprats. This passes the point of absurdity when Marlin hitches a lift to Australia with thrill-seeking stoner turtles who talk like Bill and Ted. And reports of the devoted father's courageous journey spread through the ocean and above it until a multiplicity of genuses are rooting him on. A toothsome trio of sharks (led vocally by Barry Humphries) have formed a Fish-Eaters Anonymous chapter which meets in a wrecked submarine to forswear cannibalism (pity we aren't told what the alternative nourishment is). One of the characters, somehow, fortuitously reads English. Rebellious, he wanders off perillously close to a fishing boat, is caught, and gets plopped into a Sydney dentist's waiting-room aquarium, where senior prisoner Gill is plotting a great escape with the kind of ingenuity and daring immortalised in the more upbeat prisoner-of-war movies.ДЄnthropomorphism runs (or is that swims?) riot on Marlin's quest. The sole survivor was Nemo, who, in a differently-abled touch, has an under-developed fin and has been kept sheltered in the anemone they call home. He can't tell a joke to save his life and has been a bundle of nerves since his mate and her eggs were eaten. Marlin is a red-and-white clownfish at pains to correct the misconception that his species is funny.

But, of course, the eye-catching marine life in Finding Nemo is more human than piscine. On paper, a story about fish doesn't sound as engaging as a yarn about cuddlier critters or the secret life of toys. Whatever the fascination is, the Pixar boys have it rumbled - so entrancing is the composition of this animated fishy tale. No doubt there is a scientific explanation for why human eyes are always drawn to a tank full of tropical fish.

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