This is the only children’s cartoon I know of that nails the whiplash morphing of dream logic. One moment you’re joyfully flying through the air on your bed, then next you’re underwater being chased by a train.
Some people may say Nemo lifts directly from the Wizard of Oz, or The NeverEnding Story. Those people are boring.
Nemo has all the emotional beats of a maudlin, down the middle children’s animated feature of the time, with the bug eyed psychedelia of that dream you kept having as a kid. You know the one.