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If you have seen Finding Nemo on the big screen or video (the origonal rendered version), you'll know it's a very good movie.  I was working in ye ol' movie megatheater then when it was released (and broke the boxoffice.  Damn, six screens!)

Anyway, Disney's now putting the movie "on ice" -- making it into a play in which actors on ice skates are reenacting the movie.

Yeah.  That's going to make it popular.

There's only a few movies which can be converted or even spun off.  I saw Toy Story on the ice rink first, then the movie.  That was a good conversion.  I saw the commercials for Finding Nemo, and it looks like ice skaters wearing painted inner-tubes and flapping their wings.  It just doesn't work! 

Toy Story you had gravity to work with you, so you could eazily dance on ice with it.  Finding Nemo's in the ocean, with boyancy and water and general weightlessness.  You have to basically "flatten" the movie's characters onto the ice, which is a hard enough task.  It's like tossing Tom Hanks on ice skates and paying him to re-enact Apollo 13!  It just doesn't work!

It makes me glad Pixar's out of Disney's grasp.