For one thing, it's kind of dull. It's based on one of those large, thin books parents buy to read to their pre-school children and select mainly based on the illustrations. The dilemma of the protagonist, that he's one dolphin who "still dares to dream" is not that compelling or relatable. It's an empty cliché married to cuteness. For another, it's dubbed, clumsily, from Spanish. Apparently all they did was closely translate the original and re-record a new voice track. No attempt to re-synch the characters' mouths and definitely no thought given to adapting the content for differing cultural sensibilities. Result: characters inserted purely for comic relief become total annoyances.
In its defense, its look and its cgi work are not bad. Not quite Finding Nemo or Finding Dorrie quality, but not too far below it. Thing is, you've seen those movies, you won't be dazzled by this. But I give it a lot of credit for achieving what it does on a Peruvian budget and being that country's first major cgi animation release. Problem with cgi animation is that it evokes in dumb people the attitude "How dare you show this to me - I've seen Pixar!" So they take to internet to write thought provoking reviews like "This is the WORST movie I have EVER seen!" - believe me, if you've seen Divergent, you've seen a worse movie than this. (And if they're real d-bags, they post a YT video of themselves wild eyed, and frantically gesticulating, starting every sentence with an OMG, pointing out all the obvious deficiencies in the dialogue and acting if sub-Pixar quality animation is an outrage against humanity.)
Bottom line: if you've got a school aged kid who's not too critical, who you need to occupy for a few hours, who's seen all the other kid flicks in the On Demand Free Movies bin, this one will do. And if you stop and look at it yourself for a few minutes, please, don't take to your webcam to rant on it.
In its defense, its look and its cgi work are not bad. Not quite Finding Nemo or Finding Dorrie quality, but not too far below it. Thing is, you've seen those movies, you won't be dazzled by this. But I give it a lot of credit for achieving what it does on a Peruvian budget and being that country's first major cgi animation release. Problem with cgi animation is that it evokes in dumb people the attitude "How dare you show this to me - I've seen Pixar!" So they take to internet to write thought provoking reviews like "This is the WORST movie I have EVER seen!" - believe me, if you've seen Divergent, you've seen a worse movie than this. (And if they're real d-bags, they post a YT video of themselves wild eyed, and frantically gesticulating, starting every sentence with an OMG, pointing out all the obvious deficiencies in the dialogue and acting if sub-Pixar quality animation is an outrage against humanity.)
Bottom line: if you've got a school aged kid who's not too critical, who you need to occupy for a few hours, who's seen all the other kid flicks in the On Demand Free Movies bin, this one will do. And if you stop and look at it yourself for a few minutes, please, don't take to your webcam to rant on it.