An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from the damned thing but, since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though I have actually seen most of the features released by DreamWorks Animation, I have always been bothered by their lack of creativity, especially if you would compare their movies to the amazing work from Pixar, their biggest competitor. Unfortunately, this movie turned out to be a perfect example, I’m afraid. It’s not even that it was their worst movie (it wasn’t far from it though), it was above all the fact that it was such a blatant copycat of ‘Turning Red’ which was released by Pixar a year before. Of course, they would argue that there were actually so many different things between the two movies but what they tried to add to stand out from its superior Pixar counterpart usually didn’t work at all. For example, beside the fact that it was dealing with a teenager girl turning into a monster sometimes (basically the same plot as in ‘Turning Red’), they also came up with this idea that her Kraken family was living/hiding within a human community which was just half-baked, never really convincing but, above all, barely entertaining whatsoever. Finally, it seems that the makers were all suffering from ADHD will making this movie. Seriously, the whole thing was pretty much relentless with something happening or popping up randomly every 30 seconds but I guess it was the only thing they could come up with to cover up how completely uncreative the whole endeavor actually was. Anyway, to conclude, even though I have to admit that this movie was rather harmless, I didn’t care for it at all and I think you should probably avoid it and watch instead ‘Turning Red’.

5/10