Was Finding Nemo Made in Australia?

A wisecrack by Barry Humphries led animation giants Walt Disney and Pixar to cast some of our best known actors in their next big-budget film, Finding Nemo, set in Australia. The animated movie, set in Sydney Harbour and the Great Barrier Reef, cost a reported $US120 million ($A182.

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Meanwhile, Nemo is placed in an aquarium in a dentist's office in Sydney, Australia, where he meets the Tank Gang, including yellow tang Bubbles, starfish Peach, cleaner shrimp Jacques, blowfish Bloat, royal gramma Gurgle, and damselfish Deb, led by Gill, a Moorish idol.

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"It starts in Australia," he said. Even though directors Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich hadn't visited Sydney until Finding Nemo was finished, its setting here sparked interest from other cities wanting to be in Pixar movies. "Every country wants to have their city in it, like Sydney in Nemo," Lasseter said.