Movie Rating: PG (some crude jokes and mild language) Run Time: 1 hour 27 minutes Summary(amazon.com): When Thomas takes a trip to Greece with his daughter, he expects a relaxed holiday from his troubles back home. Instead, things get complicated when he falls in love with a beautiful mermaid and battles an evil sea captain's plot to bring in the ultimate catch. Hailed by audiences as the great comedy catch of the year, Fishtales is a fun, quirky story the whole family can enjoy! My Review: A beautiful mermaid, a gorgeous island... a horrible plot line and even worse acting. Unfortunately, this is all you will get in return for watching "Fishtale."
Although the movie starts off seemingly interesting, with a beautiful mermaid named Nereid swimming into the frame and an adventure to Greece, this movie didn't hold my attention. What really annoyed me was the plot line does not even really mention the beautiful mermaid until the middle to the end of the movie. In addition, I found some pretty bad plot faults. For example, when Sirena first sees the mermaid, there is no hint of shock or surprise. Instead, her mindset seems to be, "Oh cool a mermaid! Let me go swim with her!" During the swimming scenes, almost all the fish are computer animated and the effects are horrible; they look like one of those fish screen saver programs!
There was also a few random scenes in this movie that weren't necessary, such as a bride at her own wedding gets caught on fire because of a firework accident, a chicken gets its head whacked off ( it was not showed, but implied) and lastly, a weird transvestite who owns a gift shop snorts like a pig while talking... seriously?
What were they thinking?
There was also a character that really disturbed me and I couldn't believe he was allowed into this children's movie. In Amazon's summary, he is mentioned as a "Sea Captain" however, he seems like a white trash pirate! Hes extremely lewd and inappropriate in many scenes of the movie, which includes him watching women bathe in a cove and making lewd remarks, and at one point, pulled an object out of his rear end and smelled it... Yeah, real nice. In addition, the "love" in this movie was extremely shallow, and they only fell in love with each other after being put under a spell. Although I hated this plot, the only element that caught my attention was the beautiful mermaid who was smart, bright and charming. I was very disappointed with this movie, especially since the mermaid is so beautiful. I give this movie (*-**) 1-2 stars. -Sirenita The Selkie
