Despite the colorful animation and cute designs, it was honestly pretty boring.
Dreamworks Animation is a hit or miss for me as they have made some really fantastic movies in the past but also some pretty bad ones too. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is clearly aimed more for the younger demographic and there have been films I have enjoyed that are made in that category. However, this one really didn't do it for me.
The animation style and models are pretty good as they are colorful, beautiful and have some textures around them to provide the essence of sea life. Some of the dark underwater sequences have pretty good lighting, colors, and sound design throughout as it does add some decent atmosphere. The voice performances were okay. But that's pretty much it really.
The concept about squids, octopuses, and mermaids in the underwater kingdom living in a modern environment is pretty interesting but the narrative really doesn't take any full creativity with its concept as it feels really uninspired and bland for the most part. The characters really weren't interesting and the dialogue provided was clunky and sometimes cringeworthy.
The use of pop songs and its soundtrack was pretty annoying, the tone goes quite all over the place, and the humor is pretty inconsistent. The humorous jabs from Dreamworks at this point is starting to get a little repetitive.
Overall, it has good intentions but it never got to have a huge punch as it wanted too.
2/10.
Dreamworks Animation is a hit or miss for me as they have made some really fantastic movies in the past but also some pretty bad ones too. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is clearly aimed more for the younger demographic and there have been films I have enjoyed that are made in that category. However, this one really didn't do it for me.
The animation style and models are pretty good as they are colorful, beautiful and have some textures around them to provide the essence of sea life. Some of the dark underwater sequences have pretty good lighting, colors, and sound design throughout as it does add some decent atmosphere. The voice performances were okay. But that's pretty much it really.
The concept about squids, octopuses, and mermaids in the underwater kingdom living in a modern environment is pretty interesting but the narrative really doesn't take any full creativity with its concept as it feels really uninspired and bland for the most part. The characters really weren't interesting and the dialogue provided was clunky and sometimes cringeworthy.
The use of pop songs and its soundtrack was pretty annoying, the tone goes quite all over the place, and the humor is pretty inconsistent. The humorous jabs from Dreamworks at this point is starting to get a little repetitive.
Overall, it has good intentions but it never got to have a huge punch as it wanted too.
2/10.