If you’re going to make a movie about a kraken — those giant multi-tentacled sea monsters believed to wrestle ships from below — then computer animation is hands down the way to go. The trouble wit…
If you’re going to make a movie about a kraken — those giant multi-tentacled sea monsters believed to wrestle ships from below — then computer animation is hands down the way to go. The trouble with doing so at a major American studio is that it comes with the imperative to turn these fantastical creatures into cutesy-wootsy kid-movie fodder, which is precisely what DreamWorks Animation does with the reasonably clever myth-twisting toon “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.
It’s a weird premise, seeing as how no one has ever treated krakens this way before on screen. They’re not like sasquatches or teen wolves — creatures that are reasonably anthropomorphic to start with, and about whom dozens of projects already exist. Director Kirk DeMicco and co-helmer Faryn Pearl are basically juggling two ideas here.
“South Park” veteran Pam Brady, who shares screenwriting credit with Brian C. Brown and Elliott DiGuiseppi, brings all kinds of funny ideas to the film, which DeMicco does an admirable job of juggling. But there’s a simpler, more sincere movie underneath it all that seems to be taunting audiences, like a glowing shape from deep below.
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