Yet another strike at the soul of men, Finding Nemo’s main character Marlin is a coward by design, so much so that Pixar had to alter the beginning of the movie, tacking on a sequence showing Nemo’s mother, and Marlin’s wife, dying, in order to make him remotely sympathetic. That doesn’t change the fact that he spends the majority of the movie hiding and running from the very things his son gleefully and harmlessly plays with. The movie redeems itself somewhat when he finally regains his nerve at the end, but the damage is already done.