Review of Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023) by Infrarecon — 09 Jul 2023

What is going on this year, seriously, this is a significant miss fire from Dreamworks, while the animations and visuals are commendable the actual story, the plot, and the characters are standard, this was clearly made for only kids.

Do you know what impresses kids these days, Fancy visuals that's it - look at the pretty glowing thingy. That's what this film does with its visuals. I don't have a problem with that it's just it's not only kids that watch animations.

As for the story, it is more predictable than Nimona, I was sitting for 2/3rds of the film saying "She's not your friend she's using you". So the writers did an absolutely poor job of trying to hide the plot. Everything is so generic and just a standard teenage drama occurrence. For such a smart "Kid" that's so good at math, you'd think that she knows that people lie and cheat, if her own mother didn't give her a hint, then what on earth was she expecting?

Do not watch this film unless you literally have nothing to watch or just have time to waste.

Ratings Power, Go:

Visuals: 10/10, Lush and detailed Visuals, I like it, it reminds me of those English clay cartoons, like Shawn the Sheep but at 60fps animation and full CGI.

Story: 5/10, Generic, Standard, Ok.

Characters: 4/10, Ruby is not a bad character, she is just partially boring and Stupid, sometimes, Teenagers am I right?

Plot & Pacing: 6/10, it's good pacing until 2/3 of the film, then it starts rushing because it's running out of run time.

I give this film a 5/10. Dream works, listen to the voice of reason please, Make a Megamind 2, Make a Shrek 5, Make Puss In Boots 3, just make anything that is not like this, We all expect much more from you guys.

I hope this is just a little trip on a stone and not the beginning of a flop dynasty.

This review was short, You guys are lucky this movie was tolerable at least.