Underplayed Gems

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken poster
Directed by
Kirk DeMicco
Genre
comedy film, action film, adventure film, family film, speculative fiction film, children's film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 1,120 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A shy teenage girl discovers she is a kraken, a giant sea creature from a long line of protectors. She must balance her normal high school life with her new underwater destiny and family legacy.

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What happens

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is a 2023 American animated teen comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation. Directed by Kirk DeMicco and written by Brian C. Brown, Elliott DiGuiseppi and Pam Brady, it stars the voices of Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy, Colman Domingo, and Jane Fonda. The film follows a shy Kraken girl named Ruby Gillman (Condor) who is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High. When she breaks her mother's (Collette) rule by going into the ocean with any would-be friends, she discovers that she is a direct descendant of battle-hardened krakens who have protected the sea from evil mermaids for generations, and is also destined to inherit the throne from her grandmother (Fonda). Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken had its world premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 15, 2023, and was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on June 30. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office failure, grossing $46 million against a $70 million budget, making it DreamWorks Animation's second-lowest-grossing film to date, following Spirit Untamed in 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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