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A Fish Tale

Original title: Hjælp! Jeg er en fisk
  • 20002000
  • GG
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
6.8K
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A Fish Tale (2000)
AnimationAdventureComedy
Three children accidentally get turned into fish after drinking a potion made by an eccentric scientist. When the kids end up in the sea, they must find the antidote within 48 hours or remai... Read allThree children accidentally get turned into fish after drinking a potion made by an eccentric scientist. When the kids end up in the sea, they must find the antidote within 48 hours or remain as fish forever.Three children accidentally get turned into fish after drinking a potion made by an eccentric scientist. When the kids end up in the sea, they must find the antidote within 48 hours or remain as fish forever.
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
6.8K
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  • Directors
    • Stefan Fjeldmark
    • Greg Manwaring
    • Michael Donovan(voice direction)
  • Writers
    • Tracy J. Brown(additional dialogue and scenario)
    • Stefan Fjeldmark(original story)
    • Karsten Kiilerich(original story)
  • Stars
    • Nis Bank-Mikkelsen(voice)
    • Søren Sætter-Lassen(voice)
    • Morten Kerrn Nielsen(voice)
  • Directors
    • Stefan Fjeldmark
    • Greg Manwaring
    • Michael Donovan(voice direction)
  • Writers
    • Tracy J. Brown(additional dialogue and scenario)
    • Stefan Fjeldmark(original story)
    • Karsten Kiilerich(original story)
  • Stars
    • Nis Bank-Mikkelsen(voice)
    • Søren Sætter-Lassen(voice)
    • Morten Kerrn Nielsen(voice)
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    • 37User reviews
    • 28Critic reviews
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    Nis Bank-Mikkelsen
    • Joe
    • (voice)
    Søren Sætter-Lassen
    Søren Sætter-Lassen
    • Professor Mac Krill
    • (voice)
    Morten Kerrn Nielsen
    • Plum
    • (voice)
    Sebastian Jessen
    Sebastian Jessen
    • Svip
    • (voice)
    Pil Neja
    • Stella
    • (voice)
    Louise Fribo
    • Sasha
    • (voice)
    Ulf Pilgaard
    • Krabben
    • (voice)
    Dick Kaysø
    • Hajen
    • (voice)
    Paprika Steen
    Paprika Steen
    • Moderen
    • (voice)
    Ghita Nørby
    Ghita Nørby
    • Tante Anna
    • (voice)
    • …
    Zlatko Buric
    Zlatko Buric
    • Buschauffør
    • (voice)
    Martin Brygmann
    • Fladfisken
    • (voice)
    Peter Gantzler
    Peter Gantzler
    • Faderen
    • (voice)
    David Bateson
    David Bateson
    • The Crab
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • …
    Garry Chalk
    Garry Chalk
    • Fish Waiting for Bus #3 (Flounder)
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Ian James Corlett
    Ian James Corlett
    • Fish Waiting for Bus #1 (Shrimp)
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Michael Dobson
    Michael Dobson
    • Usher
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Morgan Fane
    • Fly - additional dialogue
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • Directors
      • Stefan Fjeldmark
      • Greg Manwaring
      • Michael Donovan(voice direction)
    • Writers
      • Tracy J. Brown(additional dialogue and scenario)
      • Stefan Fjeldmark(original story) (screenplay)
      • Karsten Kiilerich(original story) (screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Animator Mark Flood credits this film with helping him achieve some of the success that he has had in his animation career - when looking up this film one day, he read that it had won a prize at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, prompting him to take a look, and several months later, his film The Freak Next Door (2012) was accepted and screened at the festival after he submitted it upon reading about it.
    • Goofs
      Joe, being a pilot-fish, lacks stripes.
    • Quotes

      Fly: [chasing Joe in the water pipes as he escapes with the antidote] Wait! Wait, come-come back, you-you stupid fish!

      Joe: [coldly] I'm sufficiently intelligent enough to kill you... if you don't stop bothering me.

      Fly: So what? Any brute could do that. But can you tell me what the square root of... 6,561 is?

      Joe: [stammers] Uh, 300 divided by 40, minus 3 is... .

      [he turns to drink more of the antidote and develops a swollen head]

      Joe: Ah! 81!

      Fly: Yeah! But do you know what happens if an object travels at the speed of light?

      Joe: [drinks more of the antidote and sprouts spines, legs and arms, and tears his pelvic fins off] Ah! It turns into pure energy!

      Fly: What came first, the-the chicken or the egg?

      Joe: [drinks more of the antidote and grows in size, grows hair and longer limbs, now resembling a fish-human] It depends on the relative amount of molecules in the universe!

      Fly: What happens to a fish if he drinks too much antidote?

      Joe: It... becomes...

      [wheezes for breath]

      Joe: HUMAN!

      Fly: [coyly] Can a human breathe underwater?

      Joe: OF COURSE NOT!

      [he realizes he can no longer breathe underwater and drowns, sucked away by the pipe's current]

    • Alternate versions
      An (identical) German language version was produced simultaneously to the Danish one.
    • Connections
      Featured in Troldspejlet: Episode #24.6 (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      Help! I'm a Fish
      by the Little Trees (international version)

      by Creamy (Rannva Joensen & (Rebekka Mathew) (original danish version)

    User reviews37

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    7/10
    Ignore the negative reviews, this film is much better than people give credit for!
    I will admit that this film lacks the qualities that make Disney, Pixar, Studio Ghibli and Dreamworks so memorable. I am nearly 17, and I think it is a very entertaining but flawed film, that is much better than people give credit for. Adults won't find much to go on, but children will love at least one aspect of the movie.

    The animation is in general very good,considering it's a danish studio, very bright in the underwater sequences. However, some of the character animation was not as good as it could have been, and it was a little flat, especially in the first ten minutes or so.

    The songs were adequate, but I personally think both children and adults won't remember any of them, except "Help I'm a little yellow fish", perhaps not always in a good way. I liked that song, and I liked "Intelligence", but the other songs are forgettable. The incidental music wasn't bad either, though some of it sounded very like the Lion King.

    The story is a very nice idea indeed, about three children accidentally coming across a potion that turns them into fish, and encountering a villainous fish named Joe (admittedly an odd name for a villain), who is desperate for power. I personally thought the story was a nice idea, but there were some scenes where it dragged, and others where it felt rushed. I did think the script was nicely-written, again it may depend on the audience, as there is a lot of very confusing maths and science.

    The voice talents were actually not that bad at all. Alan Rickman lent his gritty baritone to a cool and suave villain, and I must say he didn't do too bad a job. As a matter of fact, I was impressed with him more than anybody else. Had he had some better material,(not as bad as it could have been) his villain could have been more memorable than they made him. Terry Jones was an inspired choice for McKrill. His character is quite mad, and there were times when Jones was very funny, but other times when he quite badly overdid the character, most notably in his song. Fly, Stella and Chuck were well done, but the only voice actor I wasn't hugely keen on was the voice actor of the shark; he was very loud and got a bit annoying.

    The special features on the DVD could have been of a bigger variety. There was an interesting featurette with interviews with Rickman and Jones, and some equally interesting filmographies. If anything, there could have had a bit more variety for kids, like games and trailers for other films.

    All in all, I liked this film. Is it the best animation in the world? No it isn't, but it isn't too bad an attempt. 7/10 Bethany Cox
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      • June 29, 2001 (United States)
      • Germany
      • Ireland
      • Denmark
      • United States
      • France
      • Canada
      • United Kingdom
      • Spain
      • Estonia
      • Latvia
      • Danish
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      • A. Film
      • Blue Sky Studios
      • Egmont Imagination
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    • 1 hour 20 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital EX

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