Tuesday, November 6, 2018

The Reef (2006)


The Weinstein Company
Directed by Howard E. Baker, John Fox, Kyung Ho Lee
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Vivendi)

A young fish lives with his parents in a polluted Boston harbor. One day they are all caught in a fishing net, but he manages to escape while his parents are presumably swept away to their death (a rather depressing scene). He is taken in by friendly porpoises who later take him to a far away reef to live with an eccentric aunt. The boy, now a "teenager", falls in love with a beautiful fish but has to confront her bully admirer, a tiger shark. He is trained by a sort of ninja turtle, who teaches him to overcome his lack of size by using his brains. He does so in the final confrontation with the tiger shark. Lackluster animated feature suffers from a predictable plot and uninspired animation. 

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