- “Discover the hero just beneath the surface.”
- ―Tagline
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (original title as Meet the Gillmans) is a 2023 American computer-animated teen comedy-drama film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is DreamWorks Animation's 44th feature film.
Plot[]
Ruby Gillman lives with her family in the seaside town of Oceanside. Her mother, Agatha, forbids her from going to prom because it's on a ship in the ocean. At school, she originally decides not to go, but her friends convince her to ask out her crush, Connor. Before she can ask, Connor falls into the water. Ruby jumps in and saves him. However, she starts to become giant as a result of her touching salt water. Her mother finds out and chases her, reuniting with her brother, Brill, along the way. They calm her down and she shrinks down to her normal size.
Angry that her mom never told her about what she was capable of, she runs away to meet her grandmother with Brill's help. Her grandmother tells her that she is a princess and next in line to take the throne. She also tells Ruby about mermaids and how her mother trapped them for all eternity. Ruby denies the throne, but is thankful to have finally met her grandmother. But on her way home, she is trapped by Gordon Lighthouse who almost kills her. However, Chelsea, the new girl in school, reveals herself to be a mermaid and helps her escape.
The next day, Ruby tries to go back to her normal life, but footage of her kraken form surfaces. She ends up ditching school with Chelsea, who tells her about the trident, and how her mother was killed trying to get it back. She asks Ruby to get it to help unite the kraken and mermaids, so Ruby trains with her grandmother to be powerful enough to get it.
On prom night, Ruby goes to tell her mother about Chelsea. However, when she hears that Ruby made friends with a mermaid, she forbids her from seeing her grandmother. Ruby runs away to grab the trident for Chelsea. While that, Agatha confronts Grandmamah, who explains that Nerissa never had a daughter, while Ruby retrieves the Trident but is betrayed. Chelsea reveals her true identity, which was actually Nerissa. Her true colors grows bigger, and traps Ruby before going to destroy the town. Ruby's mother and grandmother try to fight her off, while Brill finds Ruby sulking. After he gives her some words of encouragement, she goes to the surface to stop Nerissa.
Realizing that the trident can be destroyed with enough power, Ruby, her mother, and her grandmother use their laser eyes to destroy the trident together, defeating Nerissa and shrinking her down to her normal size, where she is captured by Gordon. She reconciles with her friends and asks Connor out to prom, to which he accepts. Some time later, everyone goes back to their normal lives, with Ruby and Connor becoming a couple. She becomes the protector of Oceanside.
Cast[]
- Lana Condor as Ruby Gillman, a shy sixteen-year-old teenage kraken who is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High
- Jane Fonda as Grandmama, Ruby's grandmother and the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas
- Toni Collette as Agatha Gillman, Ruby's overprotective mother who does not allow Ruby to go on the beach with any would-be friends
- Annie Murphy as Chelsea Van Der Zee/Queen Nerissa, a snobbish mermaid-turned-human and the new girl at Oceanside High, but in reality she is the evil mermaid queen.
- Sam Richardson as Brill, Ruby's uncle
- Liza Koshy as Margot, one of Ruby's friends
- Will Forte as Gordon Lighthouse, a sailor and tour guide in Oceanside
- Colman Domingo as Arthur Gillman, Ruby's father and Agatha's husband
- Jaboukie Young-White as Connor, Ruby's skater-boy crush, who only seems to admire her for her fractals
- Blue Chapman as Sam Gillman, Ruby's 7-year-old brother
- Eduardo Franco as Trevin, one of Ruby's friends
- Ramona Young as Bliss, one of Ruby's friends
- Echo Kellum as Doug
- Nicole Byer as Janice
Production[]
Development[]
Music[]
Stephanie Economou was confirmed to score the film by the first trailer's release on March 16, 2023.
Release[]
Theatrical[]
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken debuted at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 15, 2023, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 30.The film was screened early on June 19, 2023, at various Regal Cinemas theaters as part of the chain's "Monday Mystery Movie" promotion.
In December 2022, Deputy Manager Director of Universal Pictures International Italy Massimo Proietti revealed that the film would be released in mid-2023. On March 16, 2023, following the release of the first official trailer, it was revealed that the film would be released on June 30, 2023, taking over the original release date of Illumination's Migration.
Home Media[]
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken was released on Digital HD on July 18, 2023, 18 days after its theatrical release. It is scheduled to be released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 26, 2023.
As part of their 18-month deal with Netflix, the film will stream on Peacock for the first four months of the pay-TV window, then will move to Netflix for the next ten, and then will return to Peacock for the remaining four.
This is also the second DreamWorks film after turbo with the main protagonist being a mollusk.
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Trivia[]
- This is the ninth DreamWorks Animation film to have a female protagonist, after Chicken Run, Monsters vs. Aliens, The Croods, Trolls, Abominable, Trolls World Tour, The Croods: A New Age, and Spirit Untamed.
- This is the seventh DreamWorks Animation film to be released in June, after Chicken Run, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, and Spirit Untamed.
- This is the twenty-second DreamWorks Animation film to be produced in 2.39:1 aspect ratio, after Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek Forever After, Megamind, Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots, The Croods, Turbo, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Kung Fu Panda 3, Trolls, The Boss Baby, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Trolls World Tour, The Croods: A New Age, Spirit Untamed, The Boss Baby: Family Business, The Bad Guys, and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
- This is the second DreamWorks Animation film to be directed by Kirk DeMicco, after The Croods.
- This movie bears many similarities to Disney's 2005 live-action film, Sky High. Executive producer Mike Mitchell, who directed Sky High, inspired this movie along with writers Brian C Brown and Elliott DiGuiseppi childhood experiences in their hometown of Oveido, Florida.
- This is also the second DreamWorks film after turbo where the main protagonist is a mollusk.
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