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So I got the component video cable at Radio Shack and to my surprise, you can actually tell the difference.
The colours are richer and the colour areas more sharply defined than with s-video.
I used the Crouching Tiger DVD and it was easy to find scenes where the comparison was visible.
Using a 27" Sony CRT TV.

For something very colour-intense like Finding Nemo I think it would be even more obvious.

The basic summary on these cables is composite carries everything, brightness (luma or "Y"), colour, sync on one cable.
S-video splits the brightness and colour into two pairs of wires (one pair for bright, one pair for colour).
Component splits it even further into a Y cable, and two colour difference cables (Pb and Pr).

Here are some more video cabling/format info links:
Video Basics
Basics of Video
DVD: cable connections
Video Display Resolutions, Formats, and Interfacing posted by Richard at 22:34 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)