That's why a good number of people started going conspiracy theorist and writing how the movie should go, like the grandmother turning out to be the real villain and the kaiju battle was some power fantasy daydream Ruby had before the halfway mark of the film. The fact that the story was exactly as advertised damaged it.
@@TheGamingTurretyeash i am almost reluctant to watch trailers nowadays if i dont have to like if i know its from a great studio, these trailers destroy the whole movie, its like you wont get anymore exiting thing out of this movie it cant be even more exiting then whats shown in the trailer to make you buy the movie or ticket its so sad.. with these movies even if i like them im still always kinda disapointed pls stop showing more then necesary youre destroying movie expirience
They were expecting a twist like grandma was evil or sth. Because there is no twist, the trailer is basically saying hey you don't need to watch this movie because we reveal the plot and ending of it already
Also they mock the audience for being mermaid lovers. Can you blame us? Mermaids can be both dangerous or kind. Edit: Also around the same time we were treated to a beautiful retelling of the most famous mermaid the world has ever seen. FYI that retelling was something I never knew I needed 🥲
The issue is the fact that they legit advertised that they were trying to hide the fact that they were human, but like she's blue, and that isn't very hard to see. Wow, I guess the "villian" was a very clever person to find her "secret".
Damn, it’s almost like it’s part of a joke or something. And I know I’m going to get hit with a “The joke isn’t funny,” response, but saying that a joke isn’t funny is a fair complaint. Ignoring a joke and taking it more seriously than it takes itself, I feel, is not a fair complaint.
@@n0dash18problem is, if you base the whole set up of the movie on a joke, the whole movie becomes a joke. That would be fine if it were a pure comedy, but parts of the movie pretend to have serious story. People who are trying to take this seriously are the ones trying to find something in favor of this movie and inevitably fail.
It’s funny how so many flaws with this film story can be fix by just having the mermaid not turn out to be actually evil but no we gotta stick to Disney, and make the redheaded mermaid, super evil in the end no matter if our films story suffers because of it.
@@DORAisD34D Yes, and Dreamworks loves to make cheap, superficial parodies of things Disney doesn't actually do. Shrek was an inexplicable success doing just that.
I'm surprised he didn't sin the scene where Chelsea looks sad for Ruby and the only people who could possibly see her face at that moment is the audience! That moment only exists to make the viewer think she really does care so that the creators can have their "shocking villain twist" later.
@@blackcat5333At least Hans sort of hints at it in the song he sings with Anna. Where he specifically sings about finding his place and Anna just says she sees his face and stuff. This Chelsea thing was very badly done and honestly the trailers spoiled the whole movie. Lmao so badly marketed, but it’s not like it would have saved the movie anyway. Had Chelsea secretly been good, but misunderstood would have made it a little better.
"Fortunately for the GIllman family, everyone in this town is extremely Canadian-racist." Also, Canadian racism. *ding* But on a more serious note, that no one in this town is 'also' from Canada, has ever been to Canda, or knows anyone from Canada
I had an American friend of mine ask me if I've ever had a cheeseburger so I just told them no and kept it running for weeks until it they finally learned the truth. I have never stopped making fun of them for it.
@@AuraKnightStar Average, but don't tell me that hundreds of people who have seen them none of these people are above average. Her mother is literally estate agent so she deals with people who has been to other places on daily basis
The movie confused me when I saw. How the hell was she “lied to” by her mom about being a kraken, especially since she knew she wasn’t human and they had all these rules about blending in with other humans. And she spent the whole movie wanting to be normal, and when she learned that she was a kraken she was angry because she didn’t want to be one, yet she ran away to find her grandmother because she wanted to learn more about being a kraken? They put zero thought into this protagonist
Huh, yeah that's a pretty wide plot hole. I was gonna say maybe she just knew she was some sorta sea creature but not a potential giant monster,,, but then what name did she assign to that? and would she know that without thinking to ever go in the ocean? and has she never been swimming? never showered? it's very silly.
She knew she was a Kraken. She _didn’t_ know that she would grow fifty-feet tall if she ever got wet, which is a pretty big thing to _not_ tell your kid when you live next to the sea. She basically just didn’t know all the details of her species.
This broke me. 10:55 "Earlier I said this movie is a coming-of-age story, and now she's swimming in seamen, and I didn't see that coming." If you need me, I'll be on the floor laughing about this joke for the next 3 hours.
Bonus sin for not sticking to the original plan on making Chelsea and nerissa separate characters like they were supposed to. It's true people look it up.
that would’ve def put the plot in a different (and better) direction. also if Chelsea and Ruby were friends to begin w (& discovered eachother’s secret) then they could’ve led w the narrative that Chelsea was “different” from her family just to lure Ruby in.. buuuut as long as this strike is going on nobody’s gonna b putting c+ effort towards a movie for awhile now so
@@FrenkTheJoy what I mean is that now that this strike is going on, movies are possibly going to b produced w the same or similar quality as this one dude. No effort being put towards developing an immersive plot.
I’m surprised that there’s absolutely NO bonus sins for how much the climax part of the movie was spoiled through marketing, and maybe some parts after it. I always thought that the audience should find out themselves that Chelsea is the antagonist of the movie when watching it for themselves, not being deliberately nearly spoiled by the entire movie’s plot through its (somehow lack of) promotional adverts.
Narrissa's 'kaiju' form having harsh white seafoam for hair contrasts really well with her deep ruby-red coloring and blue secondary colors, I wish it had been utilized more. I know most of the character art style is a little... gummy? But the environmental shapes and textures were really wonderful imo!
Ultimately, my biggest issue with this movie comes from how unpleasantly squishy every single thing is. The movie draws direct attention to a specific subset of characters being invertebrates, which is fine, and yet inexplicably everything is animated as though their spines are made of gelatin or something. It's definitely a style, but not necessarily one I want to look at for ninety minutes
Or simply watch reviews of movie and episodes of shows you personally don't wanna watch. I'll never give a single episode of Velma a watch, only the videos of people who did.
So they were like: You know that movie with the chinese girl turning into a giant panda as a metaphor for puberty? Lets do that but with a kraken and instead of RED we call it Ruby and give it a shitty villain instead of making the climax about generational trauma
10:45 in real life, female angler fish are the bigger ones, and male anglerfish are very small. to mate, the smaller male latches onto the female, merges with her body, and becomes the reproductive organ for the female, so basically the small male kraken thing is a lot more horrifying to think about. this also implies ruby's "father" isnt her biological father
Or that she planted her own daughter to deceive ruby but in the middle of the movie Chelsea starts to understand Ruby and felt sympathetic for her that they actually became friends and now she's hesitant if she should continue her mother's plans
the funniest thing is the mermaid actually being nerissas daughter and the two girls allying two waring species is 20X more intriguing than the actual film plot
The biggest issue with the movie was the fact that they basically put the whole movie, including the "surprises", in the trailers. There was no point in watching it because you basically already did watch it.
Just like this movie, my friend tried to ask me to the prom by jumping out of a trash can that was disguised as a whale, but he blubbered all his words after ingesting most of the whale blubber in the aforementioned trash can making his proposal sound more like Marine Biology gibberish.
Oh my god please I came to these videos just to find some else validating how stupid they sound with that. It pissed me off to every extent, cause they really just threw together to math words and thought they sounded smart
“Oh my god she’s actually a kraken what a shocking revelation ” - every human in the movie it’s funny how she has a whole family yet her dad and brother do absolutely nothing to help with the fight
What the hell is with animation companies suddenly making the mom’s not tell their daughters they can turn into giant creatures once they reach a certain age for plot convenience?
Ok ya should have sinned how absolutely random the tiny snippet of “Pink Venom” by BlackPink was when Narissa got the trident thingy. It was so out of nowhere-
This was a film that could have had potential to really be something better, but it was like Universal/Comcast delivered an ultimatum: “Have it hit 90 minutes, or we cancel the project and take a write-off.”
When I went to see this in theaters with my family (I have a 7 year old sister) we had the ENTIRE theater room to ourselves because nobody wanted to see this movie lol.
It was meant to make fun of Disney, though it worked for Shrek it failed here. Especially because they’re trying to say real mermaids are evil when they’re just confusing them with sirens.
As someone who had no mermaid phase whatsoever (except for that one time my friend told me she googled "real mermaids" and was terrified), I'm sad the mermaid turned out to be evil.
@@moondivine2288You know, I never understood this whole callings mermaids "sirens" thing. Even the latin term for mermaid is "Sirenus", which is where the taxonomical name for dugongs and manatees come from. But sirens were originally a type of birdfolk in the Odyssey. Even if they both used weaponized singing, it's bizarre that "siren" became a title for female merfolk.
I took the time to purchase the movie disc (mainly since theatres removed the film within two weeks) my main complaint would be the reliance on modern trends and tech, and the fact that they revealed the twist in THE ORIGINAL TRAILER
Chelsea/Narissa is the biggest disappointment of the movie. I was down on a Dreamworks take on Turning Red, since it was gonna have something to stand out, and a mermaid equivalent of Regina George seemed to be that something. Alas, it was not meant to be.
I don’t think you understand the joy I had just had, for some reason your videos popped up in my head again I still watch it when I was really young and I was so hoping you didn’t just like stop making videos and I find out you’re still making them. I am like about to just binge watch, please keep always making videos. I have to show my kids these one day.
@zachtwilightwindwaker596 Mrs Tweedy was the same, I think, but she had audibly aged. Not badly but you could definitely tell. I didn't like her yassification in the sequel tho
To be fair, this movie DID have a much better plot (There’s a bunch of scrapped storyboard uploaded to UA-cam - look them up), but I’m pretty sure that it hit the corporate level and got all chopped up into, well… This.
To sum this movie up, somebody watched "Turning Red", "American Dragon: Jake Long", and "The Little Mermaid 2" and said "Let do all of those, but with a kraken." 5:03 I will NEVER understand people's obsession with prom. It's an overrated kid party with chaperones, you're too young to drink, and you're not allowed to get too wild...why do people think this sh1t is important again?
Yes, Chelsea and Nerisss where supposed to be different characters, and Chelsea was going to do her plan as revenge for her mothers death. Dreamworks changed it because they didn’t want Agatha to have blood on her hands.
As a Canadian I can indeed confirm we are all blue and have fins for ears and three fingers. So great this film is finally including real Canadians for once
The only thing I like about this movie, is how it jabs at the fact that characters are extremely blind to obvious things. For example, a villain (that's very well known and dangerous) could put a black hoodie over their head, and no one would bat an eye, even if said villain had very distinctive features.
Definitely made the right choice to skip this movie. The trailers just had a mean spirited vibe to them and, it appears, that was accurate to the movie itself.
Anyone else think that this scene at 7:36 is really similar to the one in Onward? I mean, mom with blue skin and glasses going to save her child with a comically large other magical creature in the passenger's seat...?
this could have been such a great movie if it wasn't fucking Dreamworks. Like, the krakens saving ships while mermaids drowned sailors kinda deal. and everyone knows mermaids are real but ffs make there be a spell so the krakens dont have blue skin on land!
this is somewhat unrelated, but 1:56 is so accurate, even outside of America in places with lower crime rates, the amount of school shootings, fights and criminal activity is straight up insane.
3:57 Fondue, "melting pot". OK, I get it but I don't know if it's clever or too clever. "Is this movie attempting to be smart by saying melted cheese is the most liberated food?" Yeah, too clever. Maybe they should have explained the joke a bit.
I propose the male equivalent of the Bechdel Test, the Jeremdel Test: the test asks whether a work features at least two male characters who have a conversation about something other than grilling.
one personal sin off for knowing that Oceanus was the Greek god of the seas before Poseidon who then later because god of the deep oceans where the kraken's were believed too come from, very refreshing someone did a little research
i can't help but thinks of a crazy videogame i've heard about called "Octodad", about an octopus masquerading as a human... i've heard that it's a rather frustrating game, because the character is so hard to control, he's constantly tripping and bumping into things!
12:47 Two worst case scenarios: A) That movie bombed at the box office against Indy 5, Spider-Verse 2 and Elemental. B) It would've been reference to J Robert Oppenheimer movie by Universal.
When DreamWorks saw that this was releasing at the same time as the live-action The Little Mermaid remake, they decided to market the movie around the ending twist. I actually would preferred if the movie didn’t have a prom subplot and instead focused on Chelsea/Narissa trying to not become a villain or go on a redemption arc.
Disney: (Turning Red) IS Canadian, hides her transformation from mom RGTK: poses as Canadian, mom quickly discovers her transformation Disney: (Luca) Sea monster walks on land RGTK: Sea monster enters the ocean Disney: (The Little Mermaid) redhead mermaid gives tentacled creature the trident RGTK: Tentacled creature gives redhead mermaid the trident As if they blended the script and flipped half of the parts lol 🤔
I must correct a sin @ 3:34. Canada is not in fact a race. It is a fictional frozen hellscape designed so that weebs can have a place for their imaginary girlfriend to be from.
The "dissing the Orinoco Flow" sin is my favorite sin and sent me back in time to the first time hearing Celtic Women cover it Live. I know the song is originally b Enya, but Celtic Women absolutely killed it with their version!
I actually forgot about this movie!!😂 Me and my older brother only saw the trailer for this movie twice. Once during a preview of a movie we went to see and another time 3 weeks before the movie was released!!
I was on board that Ruby's friends are terrible for ditching her to go to prom when they know that she can't, until they revealed that these three have missed at least 13 important events just in junior high to hang out with Ruby because she wasn't allowed to go. There's a certain point where other people are allowed to have a social life despite the fact that you won't be there.
This film had everything to be good but Dreamworks focused more on making fun of Disney than on making a truly interesting film, the hype for the film was due to Nerisa/Chelsea, after all she is like Ariel but modern
11:18 What was that? They're dead and were stuffed into animatronics? What was William Afton doing at the bottom of the ocean? And wouldn't that make his springlocks go off? 😵💫
I saw three movies in theaters since summer 2022 and saw a trailer for this movie at two of them, because the third one came out after this movie. I didn't think the movie made any sense from the trailer - like oh she only just found out she's a kraken and nobody else knows even though she's obviously not human. And then the whole movie was just in the trailer anyway.
On one hand, this movie hasn't one original story beat in sight. On the other hand, it's crime it wasn't a success because we were robbed of a decent premise for a monster of the week spinoff series.
It's crazy how the trailers straight-up spoiled the whole movie. If you watched the clips online, it's like you saw the whole movie!
That's why a good number of people started going conspiracy theorist and writing how the movie should go, like the grandmother turning out to be the real villain and the kaiju battle was some power fantasy daydream Ruby had before the halfway mark of the film.
The fact that the story was exactly as advertised damaged it.
Trailers are doing that period these days, it ain't just pixar/dreamworks, the trailers are disgustingly blatant about showing key points of the film.
Yeah, the instant Nerissa saved Ruby, I was like "this fake bitch better not fake friendshi- Ah, there it is."
😭😭😭
@@TheGamingTurretyeash i am almost reluctant to watch trailers nowadays if i dont have to like if i know its from a great studio, these trailers destroy the whole movie, its like you wont get anymore exiting thing out of this movie it cant be even more exiting then whats shown in the trailer to make you buy the movie or ticket its so sad.. with these movies even if i like them im still always kinda disapointed pls stop showing more then necesary youre destroying movie expirience
The mermaid being evil was supposed to be a twist?
That was like the one thing they advertised.
They were expecting a twist like grandma was evil or sth. Because there is no twist, the trailer is basically saying hey you don't need to watch this movie because we reveal the plot and ending of it already
Also they mock the audience for being mermaid lovers. Can you blame us? Mermaids can be both dangerous or kind.
Edit: Also around the same time we were treated to a beautiful retelling of the most famous mermaid the world has ever seen. FYI that retelling was something I never knew I needed 🥲
Yeah, this film was poorly thought out.
what advetisments?
@@TerraPlexGaming-xc3bcthe marketing for this movie advertised the mermaid being the twist villain
The issue is the fact that they legit advertised that they were trying to hide the fact that they were human, but like she's blue, and that isn't very hard to see. Wow, I guess the "villian" was a very clever person to find her "secret".
I thought the same thing when I watched it
they address that in the movie tho. when people asked about their blueness they would say they're canadian.
@@jclkaytwo
And the villain of the movie must be so incredibly intelligent to see through that masterful lie.
Damn, it’s almost like it’s part of a joke or something.
And I know I’m going to get hit with a “The joke isn’t funny,” response, but saying that a joke isn’t funny is a fair complaint. Ignoring a joke and taking it more seriously than it takes itself, I feel, is not a fair complaint.
@@n0dash18problem is, if you base the whole set up of the movie on a joke, the whole movie becomes a joke. That would be fine if it were a pure comedy, but parts of the movie pretend to have serious story.
People who are trying to take this seriously are the ones trying to find something in favor of this movie and inevitably fail.
It’s funny how so many flaws with this film story can be fix by just having the mermaid not turn out to be actually evil but no we gotta stick to Disney, and make the redheaded mermaid, super evil in the end no matter if our films story suffers because of it.
This is DreamWorks
@@DORAisD34D Yes, and Dreamworks loves to make cheap, superficial parodies of things Disney doesn't actually do. Shrek was an inexplicable success doing just that.
Well IRL gingers are demons.
@@JosephDavies
I wouldn't call Shrek superficial 👀
@@QuokkaWaka Shrek certainly had layers to it. Like an onion.
I'm surprised he didn't sin the scene where Chelsea looks sad for Ruby and the only people who could possibly see her face at that moment is the audience!
That moment only exists to make the viewer think she really does care so that the creators can have their "shocking villain twist" later.
That is huge evidence this went through many drafts, and cobbled them together. That kind of thing happens.
Exactly. It’s like they’re gaslighting their audience.
Same thing was with dude from frozen actually
@@Penname25everytime someone misuses the term “gaslighting” it takes another year off of my lifespan
@@blackcat5333At least Hans sort of hints at it in the song he sings with Anna. Where he specifically sings about finding his place and Anna just says she sees his face and stuff. This Chelsea thing was very badly done and honestly the trailers spoiled the whole movie. Lmao so badly marketed, but it’s not like it would have saved the movie anyway. Had Chelsea secretly been good, but misunderstood would have made it a little better.
"Fortunately for the GIllman family, everyone in this town is extremely Canadian-racist."
Also, Canadian racism. *ding*
But on a more serious note, that no one in this town is 'also' from Canada, has ever been to Canda, or knows anyone from Canada
They thought south park was a documentary.
ua-cam.com/video/9W1tWRMoiAI/v-deo.html
You would be surprised how little the average American knows about Canada, and is willing to believe is true about Canadians.
I had an American friend of mine ask me if I've ever had a cheeseburger so I just told them no and kept it running for weeks until it they finally learned the truth. I have never stopped making fun of them for it.
@@AuraKnightStar Average, but don't tell me that hundreds of people who have seen them none of these people are above average. Her mother is literally estate agent so she deals with people who has been to other places on daily basis
The movie confused me when I saw. How the hell was she “lied to” by her mom about being a kraken, especially since she knew she wasn’t human and they had all these rules about blending in with other humans. And she spent the whole movie wanting to be normal, and when she learned that she was a kraken she was angry because she didn’t want to be one, yet she ran away to find her grandmother because she wanted to learn more about being a kraken?
They put zero thought into this protagonist
Huh, yeah that's a pretty wide plot hole. I was gonna say maybe she just knew she was some sorta sea creature but not a potential giant monster,,, but then what name did she assign to that? and would she know that without thinking to ever go in the ocean? and has she never been swimming? never showered? it's very silly.
To be fair, she already knew whe was a kraken (the species), but her being a giant kraken on the other hand was the thing that shocked her
She knew she was a Kraken. She _didn’t_ know that she would grow fifty-feet tall if she ever got wet, which is a pretty big thing to _not_ tell your kid when you live next to the sea. She basically just didn’t know all the details of her species.
Thats why i like the villain better
@@oddaceisodd.
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This broke me. 10:55
"Earlier I said this movie is a coming-of-age story, and now she's swimming in seamen, and I didn't see that coming."
If you need me, I'll be on the floor laughing about this joke for the next 3 hours.
BABVABHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA HOLLYYYY CRAP I JUST GOT THE JOKE- PBDUHHBJDUAHAHAHBH
Same, I was looking for this comment
Dammit I only just got over laughing about it and now I'm back at square one
Bonus sin for not sticking to the original plan on making Chelsea and nerissa separate characters like they were supposed to. It's true people look it up.
that would’ve def put the plot in a different (and better) direction. also if Chelsea and Ruby were friends to begin w (& discovered eachother’s secret) then they could’ve led w the narrative that Chelsea was “different” from her family just to lure Ruby in.. buuuut as long as this strike is going on nobody’s gonna b putting c+ effort towards a movie for awhile now so
@@kiayini8251 and even then as the deleted scene for Chelsea facing Ruby's mother confirms. Agatha killed Nerissa.
@@kiayini8251 ...The writer's strike that happened when the movie was obviously already finished??
@@kiayini8251
This was before the strike.
@@FrenkTheJoy what I mean is that now that this strike is going on, movies are possibly going to b produced w the same or similar quality as this one dude. No effort being put towards developing an immersive plot.
“Electrically charged bioluminescence” they REALLY didn’t try with this did they? 😂
Should have added "quantum" in there somewhere.
basically implying their laser eyes and glow in the dark patterns function like electric eels
@@xyreniaofcthrayn1195 yea thats not how bioluminescence works AT ALL 😂
@@xyreniaofcthrayn1195 woulda been better and made more sense for them too just fire plasma out of their eyes 😂
True, bioluminescence means you can glow on your own, meaning you don't need anything, not even electricity, to help with that.
I’m surprised that there’s absolutely NO bonus sins for how much the climax part of the movie was spoiled through marketing, and maybe some parts after it.
I always thought that the audience should find out themselves that Chelsea is the antagonist of the movie when watching it for themselves, not being deliberately nearly spoiled by the entire movie’s plot through its (somehow lack of) promotional adverts.
Narrissa's 'kaiju' form having harsh white seafoam for hair contrasts really well with her deep ruby-red coloring and blue secondary colors, I wish it had been utilized more.
I know most of the character art style is a little... gummy? But the environmental shapes and textures were really wonderful imo!
It’s amazing how I never actually watched this movie, only having watched the trailers, yet already knew the entire plot line
It was probably the poor marketing. 💀
Never heard of the movie, but sea creatures trying to blend in with humans? Isn't that just Octo-Dad?
I thought of it more as a water turning red
Turning Red mixed with Luca
It's also Luca
The whole movie plot and story is really like Halloween town
Really shows how much DreamWorks has fallen off
Ultimately, my biggest issue with this movie comes from how unpleasantly squishy every single thing is. The movie draws direct attention to a specific subset of characters being invertebrates, which is fine, and yet inexplicably everything is animated as though their spines are made of gelatin or something. It's definitely a style, but not necessarily one I want to look at for ninety minutes
Cinemasins: A great way to watch movies without actually watching them.
Or simply watch reviews of movie and episodes of shows you personally don't wanna watch. I'll never give a single episode of Velma a watch, only the videos of people who did.
LMAO LITERALLY
@@0deadx21same thing I did omg
fr
The true sin:
*The trailers*
Even without trailers it's shitty movie
So they were like: You know that movie with the chinese girl turning into a giant panda as a metaphor for puberty? Lets do that but with a kraken and instead of RED we call it Ruby and give it a shitty villain instead of making the climax about generational trauma
Turning Ruby?
no wait, Turning Kraken
that’s better
But its not about puberty at all
Turning Red, but blue.
@@leonardofarias8843it kinda is, she even gets the "blossoming" analogy commonly used when girls get their first period.
@@ferretqueen2908 Only kinda though
10:45
in real life, female angler fish are the bigger ones, and male anglerfish are very small. to mate, the smaller male latches onto the female, merges with her body, and becomes the reproductive organ for the female, so basically the small male kraken thing is a lot more horrifying to think about. this also implies ruby's "father" isnt her biological father
Although apparently only royal female kraken are massive, so thats not how it works for other krakens.
Missed opportunity for an audio outtake at the prom scene.
" Alright, you invertebrats, I'm gonna teach you how to do ' The Sponge.' 😂
Great reference! The pun was "inverteBRATS" though, because Pearl and the others were teenagers.
Hehe! Now THATS an invertebrate i like watching
15:59, it would have been a lot better if she actually were Narissa’s daughter with the twist being that she was working for Nerissa
Agreed
or better yet, is working for Nerissa but is conflicted and unsure of her own beliefs.
Or better yet, she was *exactly* who she said she was.
The real twist being that there isn’t some stupid twist for *once,* literally just *once*
@@kimuires After the trailer showed her as the villain, it wouldn’t work for me if she didn’t do anything villainous in the movie.
Or that she planted her own daughter to deceive ruby but in the middle of the movie Chelsea starts to understand Ruby and felt sympathetic for her that they actually became friends and now she's hesitant if she should continue her mother's plans
the funniest thing is the mermaid actually being nerissas daughter and the two girls allying two waring species is 20X more intriguing than the actual film plot
The biggest issue with the movie was the fact that they basically put the whole movie, including the "surprises", in the trailers. There was no point in watching it because you basically already did watch it.
so basically they played their cards early before the game even began
So many movies have the parent go "Oh yeah, I turn into a giant monster too, sorry I didn't tell you!"
Hulk not telling his kid that he is the Hulk-
Just like this movie, my friend tried to ask me to the prom by jumping out of a trash can that was disguised as a whale, but he blubbered all his words after ingesting most of the whale blubber in the aforementioned trash can making his proposal sound more like Marine Biology gibberish.
did you say yes?
17:45 They are not, in fact, quadratic derivative graphs. The derivative of any quadratic equation is literally just a straight line.
Oh my god please I came to these videos just to find some else validating how stupid they sound with that. It pissed me off to every extent, cause they really just threw together to math words and thought they sounded smart
“Oh my god she’s actually a kraken what a shocking revelation ” - every human in the movie it’s funny how she has a whole family yet her dad and brother do absolutely nothing to help with the fight
Well of course they can't help, because for some reason the directors of this movie decided to establish that male krakens are completely worthless.
@@HydragonofDeath fair enough
What the hell is with animation companies suddenly making the mom’s not tell their daughters they can turn into giant creatures once they reach a certain age for plot convenience?
fr and also FAN PFP
Because puberty as a metaphorical plot device is guaranteed to be relatable to a whole lot of people, which means it'll sell well
@@PutRandomNameHere I guess so
@@PutRandomNameHere you have a point
It made sense and worked super well in turning red though
This movie is basically "Turning Red" but with a more dishwater premise.
18:54 he really thought that too lol
Ok ya should have sinned how absolutely random the tiny snippet of “Pink Venom” by BlackPink was when Narissa got the trident thingy. It was so out of nowhere-
This was a film that could have had potential to really be something better, but it was like Universal/Comcast delivered an ultimatum: “Have it hit 90 minutes, or we cancel the project and take a write-off.”
When I went to see this in theaters with my family (I have a 7 year old sister) we had the ENTIRE theater room to ourselves because nobody wanted to see this movie lol.
Watched this with my daughter and this whole time I thought Grandmamah was evil
As someone who had a very strong mermaid phase as a kid, I'm sad the mermaid turned out to be evil.
It was meant to make fun of Disney, though it worked for Shrek it failed here. Especially because they’re trying to say real mermaids are evil when they’re just confusing them with sirens.
Me too
As someone who had no mermaid phase whatsoever (except for that one time my friend told me she googled "real mermaids" and was terrified), I'm sad the mermaid turned out to be evil.
@@moondivine2288You know, I never understood this whole callings mermaids "sirens" thing. Even the latin term for mermaid is "Sirenus", which is where the taxonomical name for dugongs and manatees come from.
But sirens were originally a type of birdfolk in the Odyssey. Even if they both used weaponized singing, it's bizarre that "siren" became a title for female merfolk.
real mermaids were evil
I took the time to purchase the movie disc (mainly since theatres removed the film within two weeks) my main complaint would be the reliance on modern trends and tech, and the fact that they revealed the twist in THE ORIGINAL TRAILER
I watched this with my brother and said “I can’t wait to see the Cinima Sins of this”
Am I going insane or am I going insane
Yes
Don’t worry, I don’t think you’re going crazy. My friend agrees too, right?
You’ve said it, buddy!
The answer is always yes.
Maybe you are going insane, i'm not sure tho
Chelsea/Narissa is the biggest disappointment of the movie. I was down on a Dreamworks take on Turning Red, since it was gonna have something to stand out, and a mermaid equivalent of Regina George seemed to be that something. Alas, it was not meant to be.
it gave me "if arial was an entitled bitch" vibes
Its more of a Halloween town copy then Turning Red xD
5:11 bro unleashed his inner eminem for 4.15 seconds for the sake of our entertainment.
I don’t think you understand the joy I had just had, for some reason your videos popped up in my head again I still watch it when I was really young and I was so hoping you didn’t just like stop making videos and I find out you’re still making them. I am like about to just binge watch, please keep always making videos. I have to show my kids these one day.
Why haven't you sinned, "Chicken Run" Yet, They've made a sequel to that movie.
I didn't realize a sequel existed. The sequel wasn't that good. No original actors either.
@zachtwilightwindwaker596 Mrs Tweedy was the same, I think, but she had audibly aged. Not badly but you could definitely tell. I didn't like her yassification in the sequel tho
@@starlightsoiree
Mrs. Tweedy was even more deranged and horrifying than in the first movie
@@diegodubber2140 she was way less scary to me. The tone of the movie was way more kiddie imo
@@starlightsoiree The overall tone. But she, instead, is just as scary as ever.
I love how when we’re in just the dreamworks beginning it gets 12 sins 😂 0:20
those 12 sins were just for Boss Baby’s appearance in the logo
18:55 what makes it worse is that it fits
😭😭😭
19:06 what makes THIS PART WITH THE SEAGULLS better is that it fits
If the world always needs a Kraken, it will always need Liam Neeson to unleash it.
Or Davy Jones
To be fair, this movie DID have a much better plot (There’s a bunch of scrapped storyboard uploaded to UA-cam - look them up), but I’m pretty sure that it hit the corporate level and got all chopped up into, well…
This.
10:44 "How do hey mingle tentacles?"
Let me tell you a story about angler fish....
To sum this movie up, somebody watched "Turning Red", "American Dragon: Jake Long", and "The Little Mermaid 2" and said "Let do all of those, but with a kraken."
5:03 I will NEVER understand people's obsession with prom. It's an overrated kid party with chaperones, you're too young to drink, and you're not allowed to get too wild...why do people think this sh1t is important again?
Turning blue
10:23 That completely caught me off-guard
This would do better as a TV series than a movie.
Honestly yeah
Nope.
@@Raximus3000yes
@@PigBoy99
What makes you think this would look nearly as good if it was a series or that multiple seasons would not effectively have it drag on.
@@Raximus3000 more room to explore the world and other sea monster types
19 minutes is one hell of an understatement
Yes, Chelsea and Nerisss where supposed to be different characters, and Chelsea was going to do her plan as revenge for her mothers death. Dreamworks changed it because they didn’t want Agatha to have blood on her hands.
3:46, I’m Canadian and I found that joke in the movie funny
The only real sin is that the marketing for this did it dirty.
Is it because of false advertising?
@@IamaPERSONyeah.
@@IamaPERSONAnd an extreme lack of advertising.
@@BCRivers that would explain why I only saw it in short bursts
@@BCRivers And spoiling the twist villain in the trailers
14:50 👏👏👏 Thx you CINEMASINS, THANK YOU!🤌
As a Canadian I can indeed confirm we are all blue and have fins for ears and three fingers. So great this film is finally including real Canadians for once
I'm so glad you're finally being represented in movies :)
The only thing I like about this movie, is how it jabs at the fact that characters are extremely blind to obvious things. For example, a villain (that's very well known and dangerous) could put a black hoodie over their head, and no one would bat an eye, even if said villain had very distinctive features.
Definitely made the right choice to skip this movie. The trailers just had a mean spirited vibe to them and, it appears, that was accurate to the movie itself.
I wish I skipped this movie too
This movie is dumb and painfully ripping off everything that came before it.
Yeah and very clickbait 😕
Anyone else think that this scene at 7:36 is really similar to the one in Onward? I mean, mom with blue skin and glasses going to save her child with a comically large other magical creature in the passenger's seat...?
oh shit
Correct
I refuse to believe that dreamworks and Disney are owned by the same company
17:59 shout out to my boy ancient_1 with the Ishmael reference that I only looked up because of MGS5
The redhead looks like Bloom from Winx Club.
this could have been such a great movie if it wasn't fucking Dreamworks. Like, the krakens saving ships while mermaids drowned sailors kinda deal. and everyone knows mermaids are real but ffs make there be a spell so the krakens dont have blue skin on land!
this is somewhat unrelated, but 1:56 is so accurate, even outside of America in places with lower crime rates, the amount of school shootings, fights and criminal activity is straight up insane.
3:57 Fondue, "melting pot". OK, I get it but I don't know if it's clever or too clever.
"Is this movie attempting to be smart by saying melted cheese is the most liberated food?"
Yeah, too clever. Maybe they should have explained the joke a bit.
I propose the male equivalent of the Bechdel Test, the Jeremdel Test: the test asks whether a work features at least two male characters who have a conversation about something other than grilling.
one personal sin off for knowing that Oceanus was the Greek god of the seas before Poseidon who then later because god of the deep oceans where the kraken's were believed too come from, very refreshing someone did a little research
18:43 Cinema Sins' first ever Hell's Kitchen Audio Use
Yes hells kitchen that and hotel hell are amazing
i can't help but thinks of a crazy videogame i've heard about called "Octodad", about an octopus masquerading as a human...
i've heard that it's a rather frustrating game, because the character is so hard to control, he's constantly tripping and bumping into things!
12:47 Two worst case scenarios:
A) That movie bombed at the box office against Indy 5, Spider-Verse 2 and Elemental.
B) It would've been reference to J Robert Oppenheimer movie by Universal.
The bomb even looks like the gadget
As a Canadian, I can confirm that we are blue and missing a finger
PLEASE, would you already cover Nimona. If something like this gets the cut...
1:47 Actually my prom was on a boat. Small, but It was a pretty.
So was mine.
The Trailer for this movie revealed too much for the marketing
When DreamWorks saw that this was releasing at the same time as the live-action The Little Mermaid remake, they decided to market the movie around the ending twist.
I actually would preferred if the movie didn’t have a prom subplot and instead focused on Chelsea/Narissa trying to not become a villain or go on a redemption arc.
7:37
probably one of the best "excellent at CinemaSins" moments so far on this channel
Disney: (Turning Red) IS Canadian, hides her transformation from mom
RGTK: poses as Canadian, mom quickly discovers her transformation
Disney: (Luca) Sea monster walks on land
RGTK: Sea monster enters the ocean
Disney: (The Little Mermaid) redhead mermaid gives tentacled creature the trident
RGTK: Tentacled creature gives redhead mermaid the trident
As if they blended the script and flipped half of the parts lol 🤔
I must correct a sin @ 3:34. Canada is not in fact a race. It is a fictional frozen hellscape designed so that weebs can have a place for their imaginary girlfriend to be from.
Maybe if you want to make a shocking twist villain then don’t make it obvious from the trailers.
Yeah, the trailers spoiled the hell out of this movie
The "dissing the Orinoco Flow" sin is my favorite sin and sent me back in time to the first time hearing Celtic Women cover it Live. I know the song is originally b Enya, but Celtic Women absolutely killed it with their version!
I LOVE Celtic Woman and all their covers 😭
Once again, the best way to watch a movie without actually watching it.
I looked for this video 4 days ago and then my man delivered.
I actually forgot about this movie!!😂 Me and my older brother only saw the trailer for this movie twice. Once during a preview of a movie we went to see and another time 3 weeks before the movie was released!!
I was on board that Ruby's friends are terrible for ditching her to go to prom when they know that she can't, until they revealed that these three have missed at least 13 important events just in junior high to hang out with Ruby because she wasn't allowed to go. There's a certain point where other people are allowed to have a social life despite the fact that you won't be there.
I like the pun with the names like Alexander Herring: "Alexander Hamilton", I just think It's funny
Forgot this movie existed.
It's a shame. We need more original movies.
CinemaSins posted!!! My life is complete again 😆
Every Tuesday and Thursday
4:22 Man’s speaking facts
13:18 they are invisible to mirrors
No,just perfectly aligned
I was confused. How did Ruby not know she was a kraken when she said in the beginning that she was pretending to be human
I think it was rather that she can become huge/have a _proper_ kraken form?
My favorite quote from the movie:
"I was into jars; now it's bottles"
This film had everything to be good but Dreamworks focused more on making fun of Disney than on making a truly interesting film, the hype for the film was due to Nerisa/Chelsea, after all she is like Ariel but modern
11:18 What was that? They're dead and were stuffed into animatronics? What was William Afton doing at the bottom of the ocean? And wouldn't that make his springlocks go off? 😵💫
Does that mean,there was a William afton in this world,and he was a merman?
@@Bacteriaboi29 I dunno
I couldn’t tell what this film was about and thought the red haired girl was the protagonist (based on the marketing)
13:33 had me coughing laughing my god
I saw three movies in theaters since summer 2022 and saw a trailer for this movie at two of them, because the third one came out after this movie.
I didn't think the movie made any sense from the trailer - like oh she only just found out she's a kraken and nobody else knows even though she's obviously not human. And then the whole movie was just in the trailer anyway.
On one hand, this movie hasn't one original story beat in sight.
On the other hand, it's crime it wasn't a success because we were robbed of a decent premise for a monster of the week spinoff series.
There were genuinely so many parts I was confused with, but I really wanted to like this movie
18:10 - it's her instinct when she's on the camera (even if it's an iPhone), she let her "teenage" persona take over.
This video was 100x more entertaining than the actual movie.
Yes, I've been waiting for you to do this movie! I mean people will say what they will but I really enjoyed Ruby Gillman!!!