At the beginning of 2003's Finding Nemo, Mr. Ray's class swims through some 12,996 corals, all of which were individually animated. "I said, 'Now, wait a minute: You're telling me you want this fish ...

Sometimes it can be hard to catch a film's prevailing message. As Marlin's new pal—a delightfully plucky, yet, very forgetful blue tang named Dory, played by Ellen DeGeneres—put it, "When life gets ...