2023 · animation · family · fantasy
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Directed by Kirk DeMicco1h 32m2023
Ruby Gillman, a sweet and awkward high school student, discovers she's a direct descendant of the warrior kraken queens. The kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids. Destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother, Ruby must use her newfound powers to protect those she loves most.
Our read: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · family · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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