They will also have to labor through jokes such as calling her sea-king father on her Shell Phone. They are punished with cheap visual schtick such as her eating Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food ice cream. They must endure while Aquamarine struggles with her new land-legs. Viewers are forced to tolerate the same (pardon the pun) fish-out-of-water story devices that they’ve seen many times.
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The movie also seems as though a producer somewhere gave a project green light to a live-action remake of Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID. With stilted dialogue that doesn’t sit comfortably in the performers’ mouths, it feels like a teenage re-hashing of the Tom Hanks/Darryl Hannah fare, SPLASH. It lacks real originality, direction and a good script. What do they want? They want Hailey’s mom to decide not to move to Australia.Ĭan they win Raymond’s affection in time? Can they keep Aquamarine’s mermaid identity a secret? Can they get their wish so Hailey doesn’t have to move away? Armed with plenty of TeenCosmos and other teen love magazines, the girls struggle to find the meaning of true love.ĪQUAMARINE is not a great movie. As is the mermaid custom of, “anyone who helps a mermaid gets a wish,” if Hailey and Claire help Aquamarine win Raymond’s affection, then they can wish for whatever they want. She has three days to get a guy to tell her that he loves her, and she has just the guy in mind: the dreamy lifeguard, Raymond. The next day, Hailey and Claire find something unusual in the pool: Aquamarine, a 16-year-old mermaid who had to get away from her father and her arranged marriage.Īquamarine tells the girls that, in order to get out of her arranged marriage, she must convince her father that true love exists. Well, the gods must be crazy, because in one massive storm surge a wave overtakes the beach club pool. While there, Hailey mockingly prays to the “gods of the hurricanes” that the storm will continue so she won’t have to move away.
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But, in a few short days, Hailey and her mother, a marine biologist, are moving to Australia, and the girls will be forced to say goodbye.Īs a summer storm rages, Hailey and Claire have one last movie night together. They could never imagine saying goodbye to the dreamy lifeguard, Raymond, who works at their favorite, summer beach club. They could never imagine leaving their home in Florida. They could never imagine their lives without each other. Twelve year-olds Hailey and Claire are best friends forever. More Detail:ĪQUAMARINE follows Hailey (JoJo Levesque) and Claire (Emma Roberts) as two best friends whose lives are forever changed when, after a huge storm, they find a mermaid (Sara Paxton) trapped in their beach club’s pool.
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(Pa, Ro, E, B, C, L, V, N) Mixed light pagan worldview with Romantic elements having teenagers looking for love and extolling emotions as the highest human/mermaid experience and some environmental elements, such as mermaid is thankful that a marine biologist has cleaned up the water because, “it tastes a lot better than it did ten years ago ” plus light biblical, Christian worldview principles such as friendship and self-sacrificing love, and pagan elements wherein mermaids can grant wishes and young girl jokingly prays to the “gods of the hurricanes, ” but this prayer seems to cause a large wave that washes a mermaid ashore about eight light profanities of “My God” or “Oh, God” one instance of light violence as an angry girl pushes the mermaid on a dock back into the ocean no sex but a few references to a teenage girl’s physical development naturalistic nudity of both male and female teenagers in swimsuits and bikinis no alcohol no smoking, in fact two 16-year-olds proudly boast that they don’t smoke and, nothing else objectionable. These elements extol human emotions and promote superstitions about mermaids who can grant wishes. The movie contains mixed Romantic and pagan elements, however. With no sexuality, violence or strong language and with some biblical and moral values of friendship and self-sacrifice, AQUAMARINE is mostly for older children and young teenagers. It feels like a teenage re-hashing of the Tom Hanks/Darryl Hannah movie, SPLASH, or a live-action remake of Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID.
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What do they want? They want Hailey’s mom, a marine biologist, to decide not to move to Australia.ĪQUAMARINE is not a great movie. If Hailey and Claire will help her, she will grant them a wish. She has three days to get a guy to tell her that he loves her. Aquamarine tells the girls that, in order to get out of her arranged marriage, she must convince her father that true love exists. AQUAMARINE, a family movie, follows Hailey and Claire, two 12-year-olds and best friends whose lives are forever changed when, after a huge storm, they find Aquamarine, a mermaid trapped in their beach club’s pool.