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A DANISH cartoon for children of, say, five-to-10, Help! I'm a Fish is about three
kids caught by the tide while fishing who then stumble into a sinister laboratory
in the cliff, where a nutty professor (voiced by Terry Jones) has invented a
serum to turn humans into fish in anticipation of global warming. The trio are
accidentally made the guinea-pigs, or, rather, the finny ones: the little girl turns
into a starfish, the 13-year-old into a cod in a baseball cap, and the fat boy into
a jellyfish. They fall foul of a great white shark that talks cockney and has no
brains, but depends on a sinister pilot fish called Joe (voiced by Alan Rickman),
who speaks impeccable English and therefore must be the villain intent on
seaworld domination.
The animation is light years behind Disney or DreamWorks, but achieves a sort of nostalgic charm because of it, and there are a couple of good lines like: "You're not fit for sushi." OK, though, for small fry.  |
