MOVIE REVIEW: Kid-friendly battle of the high school sea monsters in Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.
has had much less of a push and seems primed to face a struggle connecting with audiences., an aquatic, animated, all-ages romp full of familiar lessons and a few too many peppy pop songs that plays things so down-the-middle as to become perfectly forgettable.
Though in practice director Kirk DeMicco’s film can’t escape being overly familiar kids-movie fare, the screenplay has aspirations to subvert tropes and expectations. The titular Ruby , in all her lanky and self-conscious awkwardness, struggles to fit in to the town of Oceanside. In fact, her whole family is trying to convince the town’s populace they belong: Their origin is of the water, and their blue skin and fishy features are plenty perceptible .
Still, Ruby doesn’t know the full truth of her lineage and quickly has to face it head-on after an attempted promposal to her human crush Connor lands her in the ocean, exactly where her mom, Agatha , forbids her from ever going. There, she discovers her inheritance from her estranged Grandmamah . Not only that, but the krakens are at perpetual war with the ambiguously evil mermaids .
It’s an intriguing concept, but one the film doesn’t do enough with. The characters are all defined by broad traits that end up relegating them to anonymity – the unlikely hero, the overbearing mother, the pure comic relief guy . No one has a memorable personality. The locales and animation lean toward nondescript as well, with neither Oceanside nor the depths below it offering much in the way of immersion into this world.
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