Feminist Criticism Of Finding Nemo

As children, people watch all sorts of animated cartoons and entertaining TV shows. Children look for a good laugh and parents look for something partially educational. Of course, as young children, they do not pay attention to the true meaning behind the story or even look at the way the different characters are portrayed. Even more obvious, children do not pay any sort of attention to the differences between the male and female characters or the differences in the ways the genders are portrayed. But, as children grow older they learn to analyze simple things such as movies and TV shows more closely. When people do analyze more closely, they often find a different way to look at the same TV show or film. A good example of a movie that includes many details which are often overlooked, but can later be analyzed to uncover a hidden meaning, is the film Finding Nemo.

Because this film is just about thirteen years old, most viewers would not expect to hear that Finding Nemo can easily be ripped apart with a feminist critique. Many people assume that male dominance is a thing of the past and that females are valued equal to men, but when watching Finding Nemo as a feminist critic it became apparent these statements are utterly false; and not just in this one Disney movie, but also in multiple other Disney produced movies as well. It is incredibly sad to learn a movie so popular to children really truly continues to promote the difference between genders and all each of the informed viewers can do is hope that children do not catch on to this nonsensical way of thinking. The film Finding Nemo contains many different scenes, characters, and dialogues which continue to promote male dominance over women and identify women as a lesser being when being compared to their male