Fischen Impossible - Eine tierische Rettungsaktion

This was very disappointing. The animation and script are both lacking, making for boring viewing. I watched this with my 2 boys (ages 9 and 7) and couldn't help comparing it with it's much more sophisticated (and funnier) brother "Finding Nemo". Having watched many animations over the years, I've come to expect a script that appeals to both children AND the parents or adults who accompany them to the cinema. This film was so unfunny and cliché, plus it took time to get going, with lots of scenes that didn't seem to add anything to the plot. In fact, a lot of the story is disjointed, with no setting of the characters and how they relate to one another, or why the main character is on his quest. I would avoid this unless you've watched just about everything else and are left without much choice...

First off this movie in general if awful. Plot is filled with holes and unnecessary scenes. We found this on Pluto TV and figured it would be a cute movie to pass the time,on a rainy day. We turned it off about 40 minutes in. There are many disturbing and borderline gory scenes involving killing, child abuse, and hostages. Not at all a family feature.

Julius and Pup are playing on the sea floor when two young human divers grab the shark eggs. Pup tries and fails to stop them. He becomes depressed over his failure. Julius tries to catch chicken on the beach and is almost stranded. Later, he's caught by fishermen looking for shark fins and barely escapes. Pup tries to recruit turtle Murtle and octopus Octo on a mission to rescue the shark eggs.

This Malaysian animated film tries to jump up to the major leagues. The difference between this and a movie like Finding Nemo is more than the technical animation. The animation is slightly inferior but one can live with that. It's the muddled story that is the most problematic. Hollywood has a near century of experience telling stories on the big screen in less than two hours. That's what is missing in this movie. If Pup's journey is the key, then the other characters should serve him in the story. The story becomes muddled and it loses the rooting interesting of the audience. As a technical exercise, this holds a little bit of promise if the aim is a lot lower. It does need a good story teller to clean this up.

I have just registered with IMDb because I felt I really needed to add my comments about this movie. It is so disjointed and just doesn't work. My daughter picked it up at Blockbuster but it was so hard going. It was very slow and random scenes kept coming into it with no real explanation. I kept expecting it to pick up but it never really did. The voices are OK and the animation is good, just the story line and switching between scenes that doesn't work at all. I think Animals United matches it as being a very poor film....disappointed. If you are looking for a friendship/environmental animation, then go straight for A Turtles Tale, by far a much better film....especially in 3D!

Come join Pup and Julius on a fun-filled adventure to a place filled with colorful characters and unending mystery-land! When poachers steal dozens of egg sacks from Pup's reef, he makes it his mission to save his brothers and sisters, no matter how impossible the task may seem. His determination to make right what is wrong takes him above the water into Man's world - a landscape fraught with beauty and danger and an exciting destination the young bamboo shark could never ever have imagined! Afraid for Pup's safety, Julius embarks on his own quest to bring home his best pal. In an outlandish "fish-suit", you will believe a shark can walk on land in the thrill-a-minute action and laugh-out-loud comedy, great for the entire family.