The movie “Help! I’m a Fish” is the motivation behind this song. It’s basically about these 3 kids that sneak out to the beach and come across a (kind hearted) mad scientist that made a potion to turn a person into a fish. The little girl is turned into a fish and inadvertently released into the ocean. Now the other kids need to become fish and find her within 48 hours or risk being stuck as a fish forever.
Actually a really good movie and it is surprisingly dark.
Too bad though that only one of the kids is turned a real fish, as starfish and jellyfish, even though they have “fish” in their name, aren’t fishes at all.
Still, a nice movie with a darker tone ( It wasn’t made in the US, so no hypocritical censorship or creation break). The villain actually die fully on screen, which is rare in a cartoon.
To be fair, there’s no actual lawful censorship of movies released here in the US beyond obscenity laws (which have almost never seen a conviction), it’s just that darker films, especially children’s films, tend to not do as well commercially, so they are either not released or only released on a small scale.
Unfortunately, what would most likely hold this film back from a large scale US release is less its content and more the fact that it’s, effectively, a foreign film. Redubbing it is expensive, and film distributors are afraid to make people read in a film.
IT HAS ALAN RICKMAN IN IT! When you get the guy that did Snape and the Judge from Sweeny Todd to play a villainous fish, serious stuff starts to go down.
What the….
Seriously, what was the motivation behind the creation to this song?
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The movie “Help! I’m a Fish” is the motivation behind this song. It’s basically about these 3 kids that sneak out to the beach and come across a (kind hearted) mad scientist that made a potion to turn a person into a fish. The little girl is turned into a fish and inadvertently released into the ocean. Now the other kids need to become fish and find her within 48 hours or risk being stuck as a fish forever.
Actually a really good movie and it is surprisingly dark.
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Too bad though that only one of the kids is turned a real fish, as starfish and jellyfish, even though they have “fish” in their name, aren’t fishes at all.
Still, a nice movie with a darker tone ( It wasn’t made in the US, so no hypocritical censorship or creation break). The villain actually die fully on screen, which is rare in a cartoon.
The clips for the movie can be found there http://www.shadowlordinc.com/show.tfClips?Show.Id=1126
It’s in French though, as I only managed to get it on TV here so far.
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To be fair, there’s no actual lawful censorship of movies released here in the US beyond obscenity laws (which have almost never seen a conviction), it’s just that darker films, especially children’s films, tend to not do as well commercially, so they are either not released or only released on a small scale.
Unfortunately, what would most likely hold this film back from a large scale US release is less its content and more the fact that it’s, effectively, a foreign film. Redubbing it is expensive, and film distributors are afraid to make people read in a film.
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Actually… no, it DID get released in the US. It just horribly because it’s box art made it look like a terrible knock off of Finding Nemo.
Amazon link if you want to buy the English Version:
http://www.amazon.com/Fish-Tale-Alan-Rickman/dp/B000GBEWKM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1277358811&sr=8-3
IT HAS ALAN RICKMAN IN IT! When you get the guy that did Snape and the Judge from Sweeny Todd to play a villainous fish, serious stuff starts to go down.
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I’m a darkly-coloured fish in an oi-il-sli-ick. Won’t BP come clean me?
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