Sometimes the hero you are meant to be lies just beneath the surface.
This
year, DreamWorks Animation dives into the turbulent waters of high school
with a hilarious, heartfelt action comedy about a shy teenager who
discovers that she’s part of a legendary royal lineage of mythical sea
krakens and that her destiny, in the depths of the oceans, is bigger than
she ever dreamed.
Sweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor, To
All the Boys I’ve Loved Before franchise) is desperate to fit in at
Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible.
She’s maths-tutoring
her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young-White, Ralph Breaks the Internet), who
only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging
out with the cool kids at the beach because her over-protective super-mum
(Oscar® nominee Toni Collette, Knives Out), has forbade Ruby from ever
getting in the water. But when she breaks her mum’s #1 rule, Ruby will
discover that she is a direct descendant of the warrior Kraken queens and
is destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother (Academy
Award® winner Jane Fonda), the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas.
The Kraken
are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry
mermaids who have been battling with the Kraken for eons. There’s one
major, and immediate, problem with that: the school’s beautiful, popular
new girl, Chelsea (Emmy winner Annie Murphy, Schitt’s Creek) just happens
to be a mermaid. Ruby will ultimately need to embrace who she is and go big
to protect those she loves most.
