9/10
Watch this, not The Little Mermaid Live-Action Remake! This deserves more attention!
10 July 2023
Universal really screwed the pooch on this one, because the way they did with the marketing on Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken is unacceptable! They were doing so good in the box office with The Bad Guys, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Cocaine Bear, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie, but DAMN! They did Ruby Gillman dirty in the box office and that's a real shame. Both DreamWorks Animated and the movie deserved better than this!

Regardless, this is a really cute and fun movie. It shows that and adorable teenage kraken named "Ruby Gillman" who lives in the human world with her kraken family and she wants to go to the prom with a human boy, until her life flips topsy-turvy when she discovers that she can go into giant full kraken form when she goes underwater and she comes across face-to-face with a mermaid girl named "Chelsea" who is a fan-favorite character and heck, even I love her. The animation is obviously good, I don't mind the character designs, in my opinion, I thought the character designs look really cute and funny and the the animation has tons of beautiful scenes and brilliant visuals and it's colorful as well. The plot of the film does remind me of both Turning Red and Luca, but Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken is it's own thing, okay? It is not a rip-off of both of these Pixar films, it is it's own thing.

Overall Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken isn't an awesome film, it's not as awesome as Puss in Boots: The Last Wish or The Super Mario Bros. Movie, but it's a really enjoyable film, and I recommend anyone to watch it and give it more money so it won't be a flop anymore and Universal needs to learn about good marketing. Seriously, go watch Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken in theaters, that film needs more love and more support and same goes to Disney/Pixar's Elemental!

I give Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken a 9.2/10.
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