She becomes a worker in a mysterious bathhouse, full of lost souls and phantasmagorical creatures. A 10-year-old girl, Chihiro, gets lost and separated from her parents in an abandoned theme park.
The exotic landscape that greets the eyes is as vivid as any dream landscape or nightmare.
Painterly and surreal images are rendered masterfully by hand in this animated masterpiece from Hayao Miyazaki (who also directed Kiki's Delivery Service). What Kids Like: What could be more exciting or terrifying than getting lost in the Great Barrier Reef? For Nemo, it's being caught and displayed in a dentist's office in Sydney, where a grabby girl terrorizes the tank and the denizens talk about getting flushed to freedom.Ĭast: Voices of Daveigh Chase, Jason Marsden, Suzanne Pleshette As he searches for his son, he encounters an extremely forgetful blue tang named Dory, giant sea turtles, pink jellyfish, anglerfish, and recovering sharks in a step program, who repeat the mantra, "Fish are our friends, not food." What Parents Like: "With fronds like this, who needs anemones?" Marlin makes an unlikely hero, propelled by his love and concern for his son. Nemo swims away from the overprotective fins of his anxious dad, Marlin, and ends up drifting far from home. This breathtakingly animated underwater adventure is a swimmingly good yarn that sent many youngsters to the pet store clamoring for clownfish. Cast: Voices of Albert Brooks, Alexander Gould, Ellen DeGeneres, Willem Dafoe