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Genres:
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Comedy /
Family /
Fantasy /
Romance
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Director:
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Elizabeth Allen
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Actors:
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Emma Roberts,
Sara Paxton,
Tammin Sursok,
Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque,
Jake McDorman,
Roy Billing,
Julia Blake,
Lincoln Lewis,
Shaun Micallef,
Lulu McClatchy,
Natasha Cunningham,
Arielle Kebbel,
Claudia Karvan,
Bruce Spence,
Dichen Lachman
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Duration:
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104 min.
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Rating:
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(4.5/10)137.5
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Plot Summary:
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Following a energetic commotion, a magnificent and sassy mermaid named Aquamarine washes ashore and into the lives of two teenage girls. After Aquamarine falls concerning a , hunky lifeguard, she enlists the girls??? employees to win his heart.
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Aquamarine
A cast of young TV actors star in this adaptation of Alice Hoffman's popular teen novel about two girls who befriend a mermaid and try to help her woo the local heartthrob
Ostensibly a family film about friendship and romance, Aquamarine also plays with the theme of rescue. Beach-bound 13-year-olds Claire (Roberts) and Hayley (Levesque) fantasise about the young local lifeguard Raymond (McDorman) and swoon when he dives in to save one of them. They, in turn, rescue mermaid Aquamarine (Paxton), who's in danger of discovery after being swept into a pool during a storm. But both Aquamarine and the girls need emotional, as well as physical, rescue: Aquamarine must be schooled in the ways of human love in order to extract herself from an arranged marriage to a merm...
Aquamarine
Michael WilmingtonEven if you're in the mood for a mermaid movie, Aquamarine probably won't splash its way into your heart. Like its title heroine, it's sparkly, pretty and flirty ??? but often all wet. This incessantly perky teen-targeted film, in which two 13-year-old best girlfriends encounter a glamorous, seemingly teenage sea-creature in their Florida beach town pool during what may be their last summer together, is almost terminally cute.
The movie made me itchy and uncomfortable for the first 20 minutes or so, as if I were being force-fed the cotton candy that later figures in one of the many scenes of Aquamarine's comical adjustment to human customs. And though I adjusted after a while, I'm not sure that's a good thing. First-time director Elizabeth Allen kee...
Aquamarine
Joe LeydonSweet and sprightly in just the right measures, Aquamarine is one of the season's pleasant surprises. The high-concept premise -- two adolescent girls befriend a temporarily beached mermaid -- has been fleshed out with inventive wit, unsticky warmth and more than a little wackiness. Result is an unusually likeable family-friendly comedy that could appeal far beyond its target demo of tweener femmes and net a wider audience. Looking downstream, pic likely will make an even bigger splash on homevid.
Working from a novel by Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic), scripters John Quaintance and Jessica Bendinger begin their fish-out-of-water scenario by introing 13-year-old best buddies Claire (Emma Roberts of Nickelodeon's Unfabulous) and Hailey (Joanne "JoJo" Levesque...
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