![]() ![]() The theme is really quite beautiful, and a motif one really cannot describe without harking back to Stanton's description of bittersweet. Naturally, the theme for Finding Nemo itself makes a regular appearance within the score, though Newman is quick to underplay it at first and let it build gradually as things progress. Finding Nemo actually sees a return to this, albeit it ever so subtly, and here, tiny hints of the two elements are kept from ever intruding upon the actual music. In the disc's liner notes, director Andrew Stanton is quick to note how he actually wrote Finding Nemo's screenplay to past works of Newman's before going on to champion the composer's talent in what he describes as the bittersweet blend "where beauty and sadness are never too far away from each other." He's not wrong in such a description if truth be told, as Finding Nemo carries that distinctive Thomas Newman sound in what is, at many times, a beautifully eclectic score presenting Newman's well-established abilities to combine the quirky and the poignant.Īn interesting trend some Thomas Newman fans may have noticed is that, from time to time, albums released of his scores are briefly interspersed with a single brief dialogue sound bite ( Meet Joe Black's "Yes" immediately comes to mind) and even atmospheric sound effects (perhaps witnessed most blatantly in the CD release Although John Barry steps in to score Pixar's 2004 feature, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo keeps it in the family for now with the producers seeing the baton passed down from Randy to his younger cousin Thomas Newman. Marlin (voiced by Albert brooks) is not alone in his search however, for the film sees him aided by hapless and slow-witted Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) in what surely marks yet another summer box office success for Pixar, ensuring that there is perhaps no foreseeable end to the company's talent for refreshingly innovative ways to tell lovingly simple stories at heart.įor the first time, a Pixar feature comes without the musical assistance of composer Randy Newman. ![]() In Pixar's fifth feature collaboration with Disney, Finding Nemo tells the whimsical underwater tale of a clownfish father, Marlin, in desperate search of his lost son Nemo. ![]()
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