My mom rented this movie when the Redbox was still around in Canada for family movie night.
Right away when we started the movie, my sister and I had a bad feeling about this movie because of how empty the animation felt and the audio design.
There was this annoying high-pitched noise that rang for the background ambience that hurt my hearing. When the characters talked, the voices for each one of them felt really alien-like. The one girl character had an Australian accent, while her father's accent sounded more British (which I found really strange). There was also this lady who spoke like she's a wise sorcerer who speaks in rhymes, but the rhymes were poor.
Story was confusing, first it was like the 'Mars Needs Moms' opening where the kid treats his mom poorly and then get kidnapped by his comic book villains, then he meets these strange fish folk who say his wish came true and he has to fix it, the water gets taken away, along with all sea life, there is a castle where the ocean was (like, what?!) and the comic villains try to do something to the mother (I think kill her, but I don't remember.)
As for the characters, the main boy is an ungrateful, selfish brat. His character arch made no sense in the long run. He went from a kid who ate junk food and read comics to a kid who likes eating fish and saving his mother.
After we stopped the movie near the ending, we all had a horrible headache.
Right away when we started the movie, my sister and I had a bad feeling about this movie because of how empty the animation felt and the audio design.
There was this annoying high-pitched noise that rang for the background ambience that hurt my hearing. When the characters talked, the voices for each one of them felt really alien-like. The one girl character had an Australian accent, while her father's accent sounded more British (which I found really strange). There was also this lady who spoke like she's a wise sorcerer who speaks in rhymes, but the rhymes were poor.
Story was confusing, first it was like the 'Mars Needs Moms' opening where the kid treats his mom poorly and then get kidnapped by his comic book villains, then he meets these strange fish folk who say his wish came true and he has to fix it, the water gets taken away, along with all sea life, there is a castle where the ocean was (like, what?!) and the comic villains try to do something to the mother (I think kill her, but I don't remember.)
As for the characters, the main boy is an ungrateful, selfish brat. His character arch made no sense in the long run. He went from a kid who ate junk food and read comics to a kid who likes eating fish and saving his mother.
After we stopped the movie near the ending, we all had a horrible headache.