He’s not a flounder. Flounders are from the order pleuronectiformes. They’re also known as flatfishes, and they live on the bottom of the sea. They’re asymmetrical, so all their organs and fins and eyes are on one side, and the other side is flat; it’s called the blind side. Flounder in the movies is not a flounder. He’s a damselfish. More specifically, he’s a sergeant major, and I’m confident in saying that he’s an Atlantic sergeant major, so that would put him in the Caribbean as well.
But aside from those fishes, everything else has just been a mishmash of things from the Indian and Pacific oceans. They’re from entirely different ocean basins. Although there are some Caribbean representatives in terms of the fishes, there’s just as many, if not more, representatives from outside of that region. So it’s really hard to say.Oh my God, whenever my partner and I watch a movie together, I pause, and I’m like, “That’s not meant to be here.
It’s weird because, growing up, most of my Disney experience has been really old-school cartoon drawings. So, for me, the new trend, I would say I’m more indifferent towards it. I don’t feel strongly about one thing or the other. I know, obviously, it’s not realistic to have real lions playing inor filming this in the ocean, so obviously there has to be a compromise. But I also want to make it really clear that I’m not at all, in any way, snobby aboutIt is what it is. It’s a family movie.