Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Discover the hero just beneath the surface.

Sixteen-year-old Ruby Gillman learns that she is in the next legendary line of sea krakens. Despite her lofty destiny, she is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High. Ruby struggles even more to fit in when her mother forbids her from going to the beach. After disobeying her mother’s rules, she discovers that she is descended from the warrior Kraken queens and will ascend to the throne as the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas, her grandmother. The krakens are a race sworn to protect the world oceans from the vain, power-hungry mermaids by battling with eons. Ruby would need to embrace Chelsea, a mermaid-turned-human who enrolls at Oceanside High School.

91 minutes.
Parental Guidance (Language, Violence, Photo or Pattern Sensitivity)..
Action, Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Family, Fantasy.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

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Credits

Cast	Voices of Lana Condor, Annie Murphy, Toni Collette, Jane Fonda, Sam Richardson, Will Forte, Liza Koshy
Director	Kirk DeMicco
Screenplay	Pam Brady, Kirk DeMicco, Elliott DiGuiseppi, Brian C. Brown
Music	Stephanie Economou
Sound formats	Dolby Digital
Made in	2023
Produced by	DreamWorks Animation, Universal Pictures

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Animated
Language	None (sic)
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	None (sic)
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	Contains scenes which may affect people with Photo and Pattern Sensitivity.
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USA MPAA rating

PG: Parental Guidance Suggested	Rated PG for some action, rude humor and thematic elements
Runtime	90
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

British Board of Film Classification rating

PG: Parental Guidance (General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children)	Mild threat, Violence, Implied bad language
Runtime	91
British version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 6 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Metacritic.com 12 critics	11
Rottentomatoes critics 31 critics	12
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer	13
CommonSenseMedia Tara McNamara Fun animated coming-of-age fantasy has thoughtful messages.	15
What the People say
IMDB 470 Netizens	12
The Movie DB Community	14
Average .. 64%	13