Howard Lovecraft & the Undersea Kingdom

Zero respect for its source material.

This movie, and the rest of its trilogy, is one of the most unfaithful adaptations of a book or series I have ever seen. It completely ignores the entire themes and style of H. P Lovecraft and is about as faithful and polite as one defecating on their boss's desk.

It's entire premise, plot, design, and mere existence is such an insult to the Cthulhu Mythos, that I am 100% certain this was made to attack an ex-partner or a old enemy who liked the source material.

The animation is pure garbage, the characters are one dimensional and lifeless. Any and all respect for its source material is nonexistent.

The director and everyone involved should write a formal apology to the Mythos and destroy every physical copy of these movies.

Takes H. P. Lovecraft's characters (and Lovecraft himself) and mashes them up into an entirely new, very entertaining story. The voice cast is excellent, I was especially happy to hear Jeffrey Combs, who is required to be in any good Lovecraft film (strange though, he didn't voice Dr. West). The animation is of the love it or hate it variety. My favorite character is "Spot". He looks and sounds great, and would make a fantastic companion for any kid (despite...). It served as a wonderful way to introduce HPL to my kids, although it will be years before I let them read his books. I also enjoyed the first film and look forward to the next. But where is Randolph Carter?

Once you notice how incredibly large the main character's head is, it's really distracting, and almost impossible to focus on anything else.

Seriously though, this is basically the exact same as the first one, but mercifully a little bit shorter.

I agree 100% with the other reviewer. We sat down as a family to watch this, thinking the kids may enjoy it. After falling asleep 30mins in, due to the scientific jargon and black magic cult like script, terrible 80s animation sequences, and uninteresting scenes, even the kids soon had enough.

There is a reason why Disney is the king of family movies. It uses great stories, animated or acted well. with colour and music to keep you alert, interested and wanting more. This movie has none of those. With it's star studded voice actors, you'd expect they had a decent budget to make something great. So what happened?

One of the worst movies I've seen in a long time - and we watch a lot of movies! I feel sorry for the kids sitting through it, as I don't think their minds were expanded or helped in any way.

Give this one a miss. Watch anything else. Or just read a book for 90mins. You'll feel much better for it.

My 3, 5, and 9 year olds absolutly enjoyed this movie. We sat and watched it as a family . Great animation and story. Cant wait to watch the last in the trilogy. Huge Lovecrft family.