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| Exploring the Reef withJean-Michel Cousteau | |
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| Directed by | Roger Gould |
| Written by | Roger Gould Bob Peterson Jeff Pidgeon |
| Produced by | Osnat Shurer |
| Starring | Jean-Michel Cousteau Albert Brooks (voice) Ellen DeGeneres (voice) Alexander Gould (voice) |
| Edited by | Steve Bloom Katherine Ringgold |
| Music by | Todd Boekelheide Joshua Hollander |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Exploring the Reef with Jean-Michel Cousteau (also simply referred to asExploring the Reef) is a live-action/animated short documentary film included on thefullscreen version ofdisc 2 of theFinding Nemo 2-DiscCollector's EditionDVD, which was released on November 4, 2003.[1] It featuresJean-Michel Cousteau in a documentary film he is trying to make about coral reefs, but Marlin (Albert Brooks), Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) and Nemo (Alexander Gould) keep interrupting him.
Jean-Michel Cousteau,Jacques Cousteau's son, is narrating aboutcoral reefs. While he is talking, theregal blue tang fish, Dory, starts bothering him by entering the frame. The scene then cuts to ananemone that the twoclownfishes, Nemo and his father, Marlin, come out of and Mr. Cousteau sighs for not being able to do his documentary. The scene cuts to realcuttlefishes, which Dory tries to speak to. When Mr. Cousteau tells Dory to stop, the scene cuts to a liveSpanish dancer. This makes Marlin think of dancing and soon all three animated fish are dancing to some music. This infuriates Mr. Cousteau so much that he yells "Stop!" and proceeds to make a quick rant about thewater cycle, concluding that "Everyone, everywhere, affects the ocean!". Dory expresses amazement and at first, Mr. Cousteau is satisfied, but when it is revealed that she was hearing theecho inside aconch shell, Mr. Cousteau loses his temper and starts yelling at Dory to stop disturbing him inFrench, causing Dory to drop her conch, but she catches it. For about six seconds, acartoon still image of Mr. Cousteau shrugging in aswimming suit appears whileMusak-stylemusic plays on a title card which reads "Please Stand By".
When Mr. Cousteau comes back, however, he has calmed down and talks with the three fish aboutcoral that have suffered fromcoral bleaching, while the whitened coral appears on screen. The next topic iscoral reproduction. Dory frantically swims to every new egg to say "Happy Birthday", Marlin paternally covers Nemo's eyes and Mr. Cousteau talks about how there are so many eggs, that even the hungriest fish cannot possibly eat all of them. He concludes by talking all about how we must all work hard in order to preserve the beauty of thecoral reef. Suddenly, Nemo and the other two fish interrupt him again, inadvertently summarizing the message of the entire film during their talk. After they're done talking, Mr. Cousteau gets mad again and the camera cuts to him aboard his boat by night. Humiliated that he has been "Upstaged by fish", Mr. Cousteau mutters that "This would have never happened to Papa." In a before-credits scene, Nemo tells the viewers about Mr. Cousteau's website:oceanfutures.org.[2]
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