

What is the whale in Finding Nemo called?

The actor discusses voicing Bailey the beluga whale in the new Disney/Pixar animated film. The “Modern Family” actor plays a neurotic Beluga whale in the Pixar sequel.

It all makes for a more satisfying adventure than "Monsters, Inc." A visual marvel, every frame packed to the gills with clever details, "Finding Nemo" is the best big-studio release so far this year.15 What’s the largest whale? What kind of whale is in finding dory?

Much of the movie is like a hallucinatory scuba dive, but it's equally eyepopping above the surface and within the superreal confines of the dentist's tank, where Nemo and his fellow prisoners plot their high-risk escape. The Pixar animators have outdone themselves in creating their luminous underwater world where everything is in constant motion. Ellen DeGeneres, hilarious and poignant, gives a tour de force reading. The Wachowski brothers could learn a thing or two about suspense, economy, humor and pithy characterizations from the script by director Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds, which has the wit to dream up a 12-step program for sharks trying to kick their fish-devouring habits, and the ingenuity to have Marlin accompanied on his quest by a blue tang named Dory, whose eagerness to help is canceled out by her acute case of short-term memory loss. But the madly inventive folks at Pixar may just be the most dependable storytellers now working in Hollywood. The ordinarily risk-averse Marlin sets out, against all odds, to find him.Ĭompared with, say, "Toy Story," this may not sound like the most remarkable premise for a movie. His young son Nemo (voice by Alexander Gould) has fallen into the clutches of human beings, who have spirited him away to a dentist-office fish tank in Sydney. (He seems a lot more at home in the undulating depths of a computer-animated ocean than he does in the supposedly three-dimensional world of "The In-Laws.") The orange-and-white-striped Marlin is in a state of high anxiety, for this overprotective father's worst fears have come true. It also offers the best performance this spring by Albert Brooks, who does daddy Marlin's jittery, neurotic voice. Pixar's "Finding Nemo" is without any doubt the best film ever made about a single-parent clown fish and his son.
