Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Time Saver It is always nice seeing some movie or cartoon inspired by the tales from the sea. But this movie has no tale.Almost from the start, the audience was offered no promising or even interesting story, nothing that would make them continue watching. This movie just began and went on with its slow pace, with no specific goal ahead, as if it is some documentary about the life in the sea depths.Even though the artwork is nicely done, little it contributed to overall impression. The characters, somewhat dull and naive, lacking vividness and soul, are literary swimming through this story, having almost no effect on its development.So, this is by no means some special tale, let alone adventure, but children up to the age of 6 may find it appealing due to fine artwork and pretty colors. Otherwise, I do not recommend this movie, as I think it would be a waste of time.

nammage The animation in this film is top quality, I even enjoyed the music but the total focus of the film is the Environmental calamities in the world. It starts in the 1960's and ends in the 2000's. It goes from oil spills, a slight mention of war (the Vietnam war) to the whaling in the Arctic ocean. The way that trash is just thrown into the ocean, netting (catching abundances of fish from the ocean), ocean-lined pipelines polluting the ocean, global warming, etc., etc., etc., Non- stop of one Environmental issue after another, mainly dealing with the ocean. These are important issues but pick one or two of them not cram them all in an 86 minute film. What story there was was completely lost by the obvious political bias of the film.If this was supposed to be humorous it was lost on me. I did laugh a few times but they were quiet laughs. The story of Sammy and Shelly could've been so well done (especially with all the love songs used) but you get pulled away from it when the rush of Environmental issues is cutting into, what apparently is supposed to be the main story.Kids may enjoy this more than adults based on the fact the political side of this may escape them. Then again...maybe not.-Nam

Anne Van Looveren Finally I saw a 3D movie with real 3D effects coming right out of the screen. My kids loved it and they wanted to grab the 3D effects which is the best proof of a good 3D.The storyline was fun and also some good thrills but without frightening too much young children. I liked also the message that animals have to live in free nature.Makes you think twice if you want to win a goldfish on a village fair just to drop it in a small aquarium bowl.The soundtrack was great and I hope that it will be available on CD or MP3 download? We all (young and old) enjoyed the movie and the extra price for the 3D was this time worth it.

Doobidoob I volunteer at an art-house cinema every weekend and I normally usher at the kids film (mostly because everyone else hates it). I do admit, many of the kids film are mediocre (usually just re-showing a mainstream Hollywood film), but not usually this bad. There was a preview showing of this film on my last shift. Where do I begin? The writing is absolutely abysmal, shoving a conspicuous environmental message in your face while torturing you with its' one dimensional characters. The characters have no real chemistry; we are told that Ray and Sammy are essentially soul mates and we do spend a lot of screen time with them, but I am not convinced by their relationship whatsoever. The character development in general is totally contrived and it does not enhance the plot (which is sort of the point of characterisation). The plot is boring, unfocused and badly structured, with the protagonists goal changing throughout the duration of the film (and I mean that it randomly changes). It seems that the writer also enjoys using Deus Ex Machina a lot. It doesn't try to emotionally or intellectually engage with its' audience. Rather, it preaches on about how we need to protect our planet, waving the accusatory finger at the children in the audience. Now, I'm not against its' environmental message; 'WALL-E' had the same theme and it was a masterpiece. The difference here lies in the execution of the idea. 'WALL-E' is well written and does not bully the audience into a certain world-view. It is a plot and character driven story that allows us to emotionally engage with the situation as we absorb the message through osmosis. Its' like the people responsible for 'Sammy's Adventure' put no passion into it and only wanted to tell people to recycle.In terms of animation, its pretty good. Not as good as what people are making it out to be, though, as it does seem a bit off at times. Its hard to judge the quality of the voice acting as the version that I saw was a British-English dub (I have no idea why, seeing as it was a word-for-word re-dub of the original) and that version was simply terrible. It was the kind of voice acting I would expect from a straight to DVD rip-off of 'Finding Nemo'. However, I did see a tiny clip of the original dub and the voice acting is a lot better (even if, objectively, it's not anything impressive).As for the design/overall look of the film, it's pretty...meh. It's nice looking, don't get me wrong. It's just that they are obviously trying to imitate other studios. The style of the film is very bland and boring. It would have been nice to see something a bit more creative. In fact, the credits had some really nice designs and I wonder why they didn't try to make it more like that. I didn't see it in 3D, so all the scenes in which the 3D gimmicks were supposed to occur were even more distracting and pointless (especially the part with the octopus, which had no bearing on the plot whatsoever).I surprised by the amount of praise that it is already getting. If this were a big Hollywood movie, it would never be given so much adulation. This film is as tedious to watch as 'Twilight' and as laughably bad as 'Birdemic', which is why I call it "Twilight Meets Birdemic". Now, unlike 'Twilight', it doesn't have a bad message, but if I had kids, I would not take them to see this and spare them the 88 minutes of boredom. I'm giving this film a 2 out of 10 because the animation is the only thing redeeming about it.