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DreamWorks is at it again with yet another trailer: Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken! And it is spicy! Going for a direct dig at Disney just like the studio's origins. It's clearly a parody of the mermaid we've seen in The Little Mermaid and media in general with a new coming-of-age story about how krakens are the real good guys. Featuring an evil Ariel and all! I'm intrigued by this classic fairytale trope subvertion, but at the same time, the more I look into this trailer, the less I see looking back at me. Is this just another shallow piece that's suddenly releasing in 3 months time, or is this DreamWorks next big masterpiece that'll scar Disney Animation for years...?
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...Hm. Well now I don't know what to think. But I all the more eager to check it out... - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Honestly, if we get even one more movie that goes as hard as *Puss in Boots: The Last Wish* , we should let Dreamworks do whatever the hell the hell they want.
I saw that movie last night
puss in boots really sucked for the animation i love the first they always have to ruin a sequel
@@ryan24a73 ? its was good. your opinion tho
Yo 2hat about illumination and Sony animation
@@thewoodymarioshow3306 i saw mario
I’d happily pay for any movie that is making fun of Disney. 😂
Ur probably homophobic
I’m speechless.
Fr disney is trash now
@@Raggy_df I think it’s safe to say Disney’s best days are behind them.
DreamWorks has been planning this since the first Shrek film.
Isn't DreamWorks whole backstory to literally mock disney? They're doing a great job so far lmao
Someone once said if you're creatively struggling then you must go back to your roots
@@gothnerd887 XD
Yep, they even modeled Lord Farquad after Disney's at the time CEO
Fr
@@barakaobama4017 LOL
I must say that I really like the animation in Ruby Gillman. It is very expressive and cute. After being disappointed by the photo realism of Lightyear, it is very refreshing to see such a vibrant film.
Fair enough
ikr it's like it has a tinge of those stop motion films from DreamWorks itself. Works for nostalgia
At least it isn’t Cloudy or Transylvania, where they go overboard with the rubber hose animation as a desperate attempt to be cartoony, that it sometimes can be considered unwatchable. Just look at Marmaduke 2022, it’s physics are so all over the place and the human’s limbs look too skinny.
agreed!
@@robinsordahl8947 I personally liked it.
You know what would be funny... If this entire Kaiju battle from the trailer takes place within the first twenty minutes of the movie and then we have a whole arch dealing with how the Kraken now gets all the celebration she wanted and it goes to her head turning her into the exact same kind of personality the Mermaid was.
Kinda like Mean Girls
Yeah, thank you, somebody with my same suspitions, remember: Dreamworks are masters of subversions and parodies, Shrek 3 wasn't a bad parody, it was a bad story, so I expect this one to be a big misled.
@MoonPhantom You might be on to something. At 6:11 A girl is holding a sign that says “Love You New Girl” which may be for the kraken? It all depends on where this scene is in the movie ofc or if it’s actually for the mermaid.
@@averysmith9943 you mean, Mean Gills?
@@mr_lemonade4230 Limited l
Even if it ends up not being groundbreaking, they've earned it, I think. You can have your somewhat more shallow movies if that means you'll release bangers like Puss in Boots 2 every now and then.
agreed! DreamWorks totally deserves all the praise, especially with Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
5:22 when I went to see the Super Mario Movie, when the trailer for the little mermaid came on me and others in the theater groaned and when it's done Ruby Gillman trailer came up and basically felt like the theater did it on purpose mocking the live action mermaid movie
Based theatre
That's amazing 😂😂
Dreamworks and Disney shaking hands... mission accomplished both movies got a lot attention and probably both will be seen long enough window between and stonks!
You sure the evil Disney knock-off isn’t just the live action movie?
Some how I think I’ll like “evil ariel” more than Disneys blariel
That's the evil Disney live action "reimagining."
It is the evil Disney Knock-Off. This looks more the Weird Al version. And if it's nearly as good as Weird Al, it's going to be a good time.
@@geeebuttersnap2433 Stay mad.
@@cavemancult1999 don’t be salty that I’m stating my opinion.
Isn't this just carrying on Shrek's legacy, which was parodying Disney? Case in point how they had a fairy godmother be the main villain in Shrek 2 ✌️
I didn't keep up with the Shrek lore but did Prince Charming ever come back for revenge after they killed his mother?
@@SirGriefALot that was the plot of the third one
@@thekingofhorrorgameaquare1789 Ah OK. The only thing I remember about the 3rd movie is that it has baby Shreks and wasn't as good as 2 or 4. 😅
There a mermaid that look like Ariel in Shrek 2 as well she got thrown by Fiona back into the ocean
@@hungcuong606 And devoured by Sharks.
You can also immediately see the attention to detail in the fact that the human characters still have joints, while Ruby just bends because she doesn’t have bones
I'm just happy that, with sooo many movies going dark and gritty and all that shit, Dreamworks is out there reminding people that colours exist. This movie looks fun and Puss in Boots was downright gorgeous in some scenes.
Indeed.
i love the first don't get me wrong the 2nd was amazing but the animation didn't feel right like the first i saw in theater's
What?? No .
Well wasn't movies going dark a good thing?
@@strawberryscentedchlorofor9935 I mean, its not really fun to watch.
Funny thing is, when i went to the cinema to watch the Mario movie, they would always show those ads or trailers from other movies. So I saw the little mermaid live action trailer and then right after it was the Teenage Kraken trailer, I WAS JUST QUESTIONING MYSELF FOR A FEW MINUTES
That happened to me too!
Happened to me today to.
Lol, it would be hilarious if they ordered the two trailers like that on purpose. First goes the mermaid remake that nobody asked for, then goes the kraken movie that dunks on the mermaids
Movie wars are declared!
That happened as well to me! I was going to watch a movie, but then Ruby Gillman’s trailer went in. Then the live action little mermaid. And then Elementals
I only knew about this before the trailer dropped because I was looking up a list of DreamWorks' upcoming films. I wonder why promotion is only starting 3 months before it's release? Anyway, this looks like a fun, interesting little flick that carries on Shrek's legacy of subverting fairytale tropes. I wish they had stuck to the new animation style instead of going back to regular cgi, but I still can't wait to see it.
I’m wondering the same thing, if they were going to release this in June, why didn’t they roll out the trailer sooner?
Maybe the promotion ain't doing too well could probably be Disney themselves interfering.
Yeah, The last wish's style was so good and now they are just, abandonning it?
@@thecatbrat42 I think there using different styles for different movies but Im pretty sure they will use that style again maybe in that new sherk movie but who knows
@@thecatbrat42 I wouldn't assume they are abandoning it, it's important to remember that this movie has likely been in development for a decent while, prior to the release of Puss2 and the massive praise it's style got. I'm certain that they'll use the style again, likely in the upcoming Shrek, however it's okay for them to utilize other styles, this one isn't all that bad considering how vibrant it is!
I am impressed by Dreamworks, it at least has the courage to lampoon Disney, and it has a good recent track record to boast about. At this point, Dreamworks is doing victory laps around Disney, and they are having fun while swimming those laps, it's refreshing that Dreamworks know colours exist, and I wish them success with their films.
I don't see how that requires courage considering how present it was in 2000s animated movies
Eh they got 1 victory lap with puss in boots, we will see how this movie will turn out. Honestly i think people are overhyping Dreamworks, they made 1 movie which was great and people went crazy and forgot about all mid or not so good movies of theirs
@@TupocalypseShakur well yeah you're right, Shrek says it all
Disney: Your mermaid isn't Ariel.
DreamWorks: No, she's not, not at all, and yet far more Ariel than yours.
Why do they both hate redheads?
Fun Fact: DreamWorks released this first trailer a week after Disney released their big live action Little Mermaid trailer and the film releases only a month after, almost exactly. It's 100% intentional and I'm HERE FOR IT.
At least DreamWorks is trying new ideas even if some of them aren’t successful.
I can’t believe dreamworks would ever make fun of Disney, I’m literally shaking and crying rn
@@Shiningclaw6161 they're being sarcastic. DreamWorks has always done that
smh my head
It does amuse me to see Dream Works embracing it's Shrek Legacy again. I mean good for them in this one.
It amuses me A LOT that as Disney is making their Little Mermaid re-make and everyone is shouting. "JUST MAKE A DIFFERENT MERMAID MOVIE FOR GOD'S SAKE!"
DreamWorks was just like. "... Say no more fam."
So you're admitting that you'll pay something just because it has an agenda? So what makes it so different to what Disney is doing? Americans can't admit the elephant in the room. Had Ursula been the one who's black and not Ariel, you would've opened your wallets. This Dreamworks movie is SHOWING YOU THAT. Your biases.
People: make some original Disney!
Dreamworld: *I gotchu fam, I gotchu!*
@@Tabi-Kun Fun Fact: the hardest part about making the Little Mermaid was Jeffrey Katzenberg. He demanded that Part of Your World be removed from the film due to test audiences. Thankfully one animator convinced him to keep it in.
Katzenenberg would become the head of Dream-works.
@@orangeslash1667 interesting
@@Tabi-Kun The reason he left Disney is because Katzenenberg didn't become the next president of Disney after Frank Wells died in accident th-cam.com/video/oLDBTvcHTws/w-d-xo.html.
Oh, how Disney has fallen from grace...
How society has fallen. This trailer is going over people's heads. Dreamworks is mocking the AUDIENCE, not Disney. Queen Latifah live stage play was praised for Ursula performance but as soon as they turned Ariel black...🙄🙄This Dreamworks movie is about stereotypes: OG WHITE RED HAIRED MERMAID = VILLAIN. KRAKKEN = HERO. Think real hard what the message is... 🙄🙄
It’s always fun seeing DreamWorks make the parodies and subversions of fairy tales!
It wasn't that good with first puss in boots tho
yes ikr!
I think 20s belong to DreamWorks, Illumination, and Skydance. Disney is way too uptight and way too stuck in its own greed to do something to prevent it. It's also interesting to see Walt Disney Co. making a full circle. If it wasn't for Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm they wouldn't be nearly as successful as they are nowadays.
Also, from what I remember, everytime this company is struggling; execs are getting scared and starts to rely on "good old classics" or "good old Disney movies" to remind audience what an amazing company they are. Eisner, when he was still around, knew that Disney was struggling while facing challenges like potential hostile takeover. So... guess what? Yeah, they decided that the best way to get out of that situation was to rely on remakes/sequels and live action movies (although, it's worth noting it wasn't to the same extent as modern Disney.) Some famous quotes from Disney execs themselves when Disney company back in 1983/4 was almost on its knees: “How could this be happening, we’re Disney!” and “You can’t dismantle the House of the Mouse, we’re an American institution!”
And you may chuckle upon seeing these quotes, but the moden Walt Disney Co. is still pretty much acting like this.
Disney does better when they have strong competition! It took Bluth to trigger the Renaissance in the 90s.
Didn't chuckle, but snorted for the 6th time in my life. Talk about an ego trip they had. Thx 4 the laugh.
Dreamworks in 2001: *Makes a movie that is moking Disney*
Disney: Can you stop it?
Dreamworks in 2023: I'LL FUCKING DO IT AGAIN
Universal and Dreamworks is all like "Your time is up Disney, you've now been dethrowned as the animation king".
Um. I think this trailer is going over people's heads. Dreamworks is mocking the AUDIENCE, not Disney. Had Ursula been blackwashed, no one would've batted an eye - Queen Latifah live stage play was praised but as soon as they turned Ariel black..... Dreamwork's Ariel being the villain is showing you people's BIASES based on pretty privilege meanwhile the protagonist is the purple monster. If it was mocking Disney why not make the Dreamwork's fake Ariel black too to keep on theme? The white Ariel is the villain.
@@suezcontours6653 I mean I did see a few hints that might be the case I guess we'll all find out when the movie arrives
If this somehow is more successful than the Little Mermaid remake, I'm gonna be shocked.
I`m looking more forward to this movie than the live action Little Mermaid movie by Disney. But I would be surprised if this makes more money.
I won't
It would be another punch in Disney‘s face and I‘d love to see that tbh
@@bighand1530 So you're admitting that you'll pay something just because it has an agenda? So what makes it so different to what Disney is doing? Americans can't admit the elephant in the room. Had Ursula been the one who's black and not Ariel, you would've opened your wallets. This Dreamworks movie is MOCKING YOU and your biases.
@@suezcontours6653 what are you talking about? im not trying to be sarcastic here im just genuinely confused. the original comment talked about the probability of this beating the little mermaid remake, and yours is...word salad. im actually baffled as to what youre talking about.
it nice to see dreamworks going back to there roots of flipping off disney
Um. I think this trailer is going over people's heads. Dreamworks is mocking the AUDIENCE, not Disney. Had Ursula been blackwashed, no one would've batted an eye - Queen Latifah live stage play was praised but as soon as they turned Ariel black..... Dreamwork's Ariel being the villain is showing you people's BIASES based on pretty privilege meanwhile the protagonist is the purple monster. If it was mocking Disney why not make the Dreamwork's fake Ariel black too? The white Ariel is the villain.
@@suezcontours6653 Ruby Gillman isn't mocking the live action Little Mermaid movie, it's mocking the original animated version.
@@Lexivor That's what I said. DreamWorks is making fun of the audience putting OG Ariel on a pedestal. The 1990s audience has grown up. And they can't keep reselling the same toys.
@@suezcontours6653 tf are you on about 😭😭
@@suezcontours6653 I'll nickname u 14 year old walking word salad
This movie looks like an absolute treat. It’s making fun of Disney, which is very cathartic. The character design I absolutely love with Ruby herself being absolutely adorable. DreamWorks as well being on such a streak right now, I trust them to make something great.
Dreamworks isn't mocking Disney. It's mocking the audience.
Honestly, I'm glad people are noticing how absolutely batshit Disney has gone
Americans can't admit the elephant in the room. Had Ursula been the one who's black and not Ariel, you would've opened your wallets. This Dreamworks movie is about biases and stereotypes. It's mocking the audience in its trailer.
same, I liked Disney when I was younger, but nowadays Disney's just going off of their rocker. with all of the woke crap & crappy lighting in their movies from their trailers. I'm really rooting even more for DreamWorks & any other animation company that's stomping Disney down
@@rayanna7188 the problem isn't "wokeness", it's that their movies are unappealing-looking artistically worthless remakes of what made Disney great in the part.
I have a theory they cram in people of colour or homosexuals and point at them purely for the purpose of deflecting criticism, when you say their movie is shite they can tell NUHUH YOU ARE RACIST instead of addressing things like originality, visuals, rythm, story, writing, and so on. Excellent to avoid any effort.
@@Goddot yeah I agree. they're not even trying at this point, so I think they're just accepting the fact that their movies are just gonna sink or swim
@@rayanna7188Disney is not being woke, Disney is being greedy and wants undeserved brownie points.
Otherwise Dana Terrace wouldn't have had to argue with Disney to make Amity and Luz a couple.
Trolls: Embrace yourself.
Turning Red: Embrace yourself.
Frozen: Embrace yourself.
Elemental: Embrace yourself.
Soul: Embrace yourself.
Spider-verse: Embrace yourself.
Big Hero 6: Embrace yourselves.
Zootopia: Keep embracing yourself.
Transylvania: Embrace yourself.
HTTYD: Embrace yourself.
Spies in Disguise: Embrace yourself.
Little Mermaid: Believe in yourself.
Emperor's New Groove: Y'all need to learn some self discipline!
These movies all suck, thematically. Spider-verse had cool animation, and the original Little Mermaid is an absolute masterpiece, but apart from that I can’t say much good about this sad array of limp films.
KUZKO! THATS HIS NAME!
They're repeating themselves
@@TheCapedWandererEmperor's New Groove, HTTYD, Soul and Spider-Verse all suck? Well....that's certainly an opinion.
@@megablueflash1816 like I said Spider-Verse had cool animation which seriously impressed me; you don’t see something like that every year. Very inventive.
I hated HTTYD when I saw it in theaters, I thought the character designs were wretched and the story was painfully predictable.
I really wanted to like Soul, I’m a huge music fan, but I felt it was used as a plot device by people who didn’t understand it one bit, there wasn’t even a hint of soul music, and I fundamentally disagreed with the film’s thesis that eating food or “just living” could be somebody’s calling in life. Also when he finally does the big performance and it’s not what he really wanted? I guess jazz musicians are just confused about their passion? I enjoyed the first 15 minutes of setup depicting the man’s life as a music teacher with dreams, but as soon as the story got going it started fumbling in my eyes.
Emperor’s New Groove never held much interest for me, in the same vein as Shrek but at least the animation’s not a garbage dump and if I recall the jokes are funny. I wouldn’t say it sucks, but I don’t care about it and it’s not anywhere near the level of Disney’s classics of the ‘90s or ‘30s-‘60s. Hope that sheds some light on it: I certainly do have an opinion.😬😁
Itf funny how she actually looks like Ariel, right Disney?
"DreamWorks has a SCALE of things."
TELL ME that pun was unintentional!
Monsters vs Aliens is underrated
Disney is being a predictable shmuck these days.
It's literally making remakes.
The elephant in the room: Disney remakes have always existed. Cinderella 1997 (with Whitney Houston), The Parent Trap 1998, The Kid 2000, Dr. Doolittle 2000, The Haunted Mansion 2003, Peter Pan 2003, Cheaper By The Dozen 2003, Herbie 2005, Race To Witch Mountain 2009, Pete's Dragon 2016 etc. The raceswaps existed too. Today Disney is just removing the stereotypes. I guess black people being princesses and fairies and magic creature is where they draw the line.
@@suezcontours6653 1997 isn't always. Snow White came out in 1937 so there was a 60 year span before Disney started doing remakes.
@@Lexivor So there has to be a 3 generation waiting period?
If I had a nickel for every time Dreamworks tried to undercut one of Disney’s upcoming releases shortly before it comes out, I’d have two nickels.
"...which is not a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice" -Dr. Doof
"I'm just a normal teenager."
Meanwhile she's literally blue and has fish fins for ears. Forget the tentacles on the fingers, no one's falling for her being human.
And I agree with you that the story looks... VERY basic. I see no evidence of real character development, the world seems flat and shallow, and from what we can see the villain's motivation is.... nothing?
Either this is SERIOUSLY underselling it, or this is a serious disappointment from Dreamworks. Especially coming after Puss in Boots 2.
The director also did the two Croods movies and there’s also a co director who did work on She-Ra and Big City Greens.
It’s in decent hands.
The old shera or the reboot? If it's the reboot then oh my god I'm not having as much hopes now
You lost me on She Ra
First time I've ever seen someone on the internet mention Big City Greens. Does anyone watch that, aside from one of my kids?
@@toritoasted reboot
@@MichaelLawrence-dv3dn naur hell na if they made Chelsea and Ruby a couple I'mma head out
I'll admit that this movie does look like the role swap version of The Little Mermaid in which Ursula is the hero and Ariel is the villain. 🐙🧜♀️
With the way Dream Works has been going lately, there is a good chance this is going to be a masterpiece.
I do like the premise of Kraken's getting positive representation and showing a fable accurate mermaid even if that's all there is to it.
After all Disney & Dreamworks are rivals. Even in Shrek 2 Ariel was eaten by Sharks.
And that was 19 years ago too.
@@bighand1530 White Ariel was eaten by sharks. So Dreamworks shitting on white Ariel is your revenge on the current live action 2023 version? People are really twisted.
@@suezcontours6653 Nobody said that "Dreamworks shitting on white Ariel is your revenge on the current live action 2023 version", that's something you made up in your head. Ruby Gillman isn't mocking the live action reboot, that's something you made up. You're the twisted one.
@@suezcontours6653 can you like, get lost? nobody can understand your word-salad replies
Little mermaid was good tho
2:06 I appreciate the inclusion of the Wave Ocean theme from Sonic as background music for the video discussing an ocean creature themed DreamWorks movie 😄😄
This is like Bloom from Winx Club becomes a villain vs a Splatoon becomes a hero using her Kraken Ultimate
I honestly hate this type of animation style, It's just become so common and overused (mostly by disney) and I just wish the would go back to the Snow White/ Beauty and the beast animation.
I do like the idea of the role reversal of the typical good vs evil charater dynamics of mythical creatures and hope to see more of it from DreamWorks
Honestly an Ariel lookalike as the villain is funny to me because the way Disney rewrote the story in the first place makes her partly responsible for the ocean nearly being ruled by the sea witch.
Granted it falls more on king Triton because he was the one who made the second choice in the Disney version.
Whatever happens, it’ll be miles better than those live action remakes. And that’s all it has to be…
No, it's not hard to be better than live action because even then it can be complete shit. Even if it's just ok it's still bad and mostly boring movie
@@realdragon I see your point, but I’m not wrong.
@@Mike-mf3ed Yeah you are, I want to see a great movie that will keep me engaged, I want to feel emotions while watching, I want to think about story after I watch the movie
But if it's just above live actions I won't get any of these, it would be like watching something out of boredom rather than watching because you actually want to watch it
Why is she so scared of her hands? Like her whole damn body looks like a fish all ready but oh no! I draw the line at suckered hands???
Honestly if this was made by Pixar it would have probably token place after Luca in the Pixar Theory
Back in the old times where Disney was the top student and DreamWorks was the class clown
I would prefer DreamWorks over Disney.
Back to the old times where the "nerds" who made this movie got rejected by girls who look like this mermaid in highschool, so now they're trying to shit on little girls who look like this.
Or back to the really old times where peasants accused women who look like this of being evil witches, and then publicly burned them.
I don't like that Boyfriend character for the main protagonist, but if he's not even the focal point anyway, I think I can give this movie a pass. Love how Chelsea Hen shins into Final Boss Ursula from the original Disney Little Mermaid. I wonder if Dreamworks will use any "Mermaid Forest" mermaid tropes for Chelsea too. Mermaids in Mermaid Forest anime are evil too, you know! xD
DreamWorks has been obliterating Disney in creativity and storytelling lately. I'm all about it.
I'd unironically rather see this than Disney's remake.
Dreamworks is mocking the AUDIENCE, not Disney. Had Ursula been blackwashed, no one would've batted an eye - Queen Latifah live stage play was praised but as soon as they turned Ariel black..... Dreamwork's Ariel being the villain is showing you people's BIASES based on pretty privilege meanwhile the protagonist is the purple monster. If it was mocking Disney why not make the Dreamwork's fake Ariel black too? The white Ariel is the villain.
@@idk_why_cant_i_just_be_idk Hence Why I say you're helping Disney. The white version, she's the villain.
@@suezcontours6653 for you to say there is a white Ariel, it suggest there is more than one, which there is not
@@idk_why_cant_i_just_be_idk Therer has alwasy been more than 1 version of The Little Mermriad. There's the ORIGINAL story book by Hans Christien Anderson, and then the Disney remake 1990s movie. The one that's coming out in May is the THIRD version played by Halle Bailey who is brown Ariel.
@@suezcontours6653 Hans Christian Andersen (get his name right if you are going to reference him, Danes don't have "son" at the end of their last name) wrote a Danish folklore about a mermaid with beautiful pale skin, as it is the look of Danes. Disney took inspiration from it in the late 1980s and made an animated movie based around her. Visually, honoring the original tale by keeping her the way she has always been. As I said, Ariel was always white, that has never changed and never is going to.
Knock-off? No. Parody? Yes.
Well, even in the worst case scenario, this movie seems like it'll end up as a good option for in-flight entertainment in a few years. There are plenty of films like that, that are a bit generic, a bit predictable, but not dumb enough to make you loose braincells, so they're a good way to kill time when you're sitting on a plane.
And who knows? It might surprise us.
As for Ruby Gillman dunking on the Little Mermaid remake... I want to believe that it was intentional, because that would just be hilarious, and the remake deserves to be dunked on. If they wanted to have a black live-action Disney princess, they could have remade The Princess and the Frog. Tiana is right there! But no, they decided to blackwash a princess who has RGB red hair, then attempted to keep that red hair by nerfing it to ginger-brown because the original color would have looked terrible on the poor actress, only for it to still look bad on her. Disney should have come up with a new color palette instead of picking a fight with the original
So here's the thing: It's like you said. Why are they already showing us the final battle? Does anyone else feel like they're showing way too much for an original trailer? Could the plot really be that simple, that they're already showing us exactly how the 3rd act is gonna go down? OR could it be that Dreamworks is hiding something? Maybe this story is gonna end up being about more than just: "Kraken = good, Mermaids = bad." What if they're gonna pull a switcheroo on us and give Chelsea a redemption story? Maybe have the two of them have to work together to stop an even bigger threat? Maybe that threat is Humans? Maybe it's Grandma? Or maybe there's some kind of natural disaster their giant Kaiju fighting causes, that they have to find a way to stop? I mean, in a world where every animated movie has to have a twist villain, a twist hero, a story where the real villain is life or familly drama, or any combination of the three, AND where spoilers are practically considered punishable by death, are we really to believe this one trailer, represents the entirety of the movie? Just saying.
Mermaids and krakens vs sirens?
I just hope they explain why the humans aren’t concerned that ruby is blue, I mean, they don’t even notice.
I love how it looks like disney pixar kind of art style. Like strange world kind if, but its more of a super version of it. I'm gonna see it, I hope its a hidden gem
This is kinda carrying the legacy of the Shrek franchise, which the first film (and to a lesser extent, the second as well) was one giant screw you against Disney during their Renaissance. The mermaid character in the movie obviously feels like DreamWorks shitting on Disney's live-action remake of the little mermaid. It wouldn't be surprising if that was intentional
Nope. Dreamworks is shitting on the audiences perspective otherwise they would've made the mermaid look like 2023 Ariel, not the original Ariel
I really hope Chelsea is a fake out antagonist and ends up being just being a rival to friends thing and that theres an actual big bad we dont see.
Mostly because i dont want the ending to have been spoiled by the very first trailer. Though admittedly part of me also want it to be the case because if Chelsea IS actually the big bad, then i wont be able to justify writing fanfics where she and ruby kiss
Why is this low-key me…
Sirens; the dark, edgy sisters of mermaids. Sirens are considered to be evil creatures who live in the sea. Generally, they are depicted as beautiful women with the tails of fish, but they can also be shown as scary, humanoid creatures with sharp teeth for tearing apart humans. Sirens are known for luring in sailors with their enchanting songs and then killing them.
Id say the bit with the "I love you too, random citizen" is a reference to Megamind than a ripoff.
Id love it if they revealed later in the film that we were lied to in the trailer, so that both are bad, and ruby has to figure out where she futs into that.
Why?
@@suezcontours6653 it would add depth to the story beyond just the usual, make things interesting.
Also, it's kinda fun to have some twists in these films, as long as they're done well.
With Disney's "Twist Villains" and non-villains, I will happily embrace an "obvious villain" over the typical "misunderstood" sad sack who didn't get enough hugs as a child.
Puss in Boots gave 3 very different villain archetypes - The Sympathetic Villain (Goldilocks), The Force of nature (The Wolf/Death) and the Unrepentant Evil - Jack Horner.
I also like the more universal themes. I'm long past my "teenage" days and I was never the awkward teen portrayed in movies, but I always love a good plucky underdog wanting to figure out who they are and come to terms with themselves. I want to hug them usually or give them those encouraging words like Perrito did.
Im honestly really looking forward it and as a grow tired of hearing about the new little mermaid its nice to see dreamworks putting a spin on something again. Even with new concepts disney feels like they keep repeating the same plot lines whereas dreamworks makes an effort to add al these twists and turn that keep it interesting. I also do think think that they are making a little fun at disney with this mermaid and if its releasing close to their mermaid movie i think its interesting competition.
agreed. I'm also sick & tired of hearing about the new Little Mermaid movie too, & The Last Wish was amazing, so I have high hopes for this movie too
To be fair, a giant monster fight is mandatory for any movie with a kraken in it in any shape or form.
Looks more like Ariel than the live action remakes.
Honestly, with the amount of "fanart" of Chelsea I've seen, it has me interested in the movie 😅
I haven’t seen any fanart
@@bighand1530 oh you don't want to know what type of fanart they are talking about
😂😂💀
I have a cat named Chelsea and now I just think of my cat when I think of the Chelsea in this movie
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Everything DreamWorks does feels like a thinly veiled slam at Disney from Jeffrey Katzenberg‘s perspective, but now they deserve it even more than they did 20 years ago.
No not really, it seems like you're just repeating what other people say
That’s literally what you’re doing by accusing me of doing what you’re doing to me. Project much?
would be funny if the end is just Ariel coming after the fight and says something along the line of "all of these imposters are pissing me off" while holding a black mermaid
0:58 Exactly! Mermaids are monsters! That's why I love them!
I'm so sick of people acting like this movie is doing anything interesting or unique by making mermaids the villain's when sirens have existed in media since 750 BCE in the odyssey... I mean evil mermaids are nearly the default in mythology.
I think it has more to do with pop culture than old mythologies that make people think it's unique.
I have a feeling that in terms of the box office, this film is going to have a hard time fighting the combined forces of Ethan Hunt and Indiana Jones.
I personally don't care for the new Indiana Jones movie, I think it's budget will determine its success, if the budget is like it was for the bad guys and puss in boots, which was somewhere around 70 to 80 million for bad guys and around 90 million for puss in boots, I feel it could do well. Not to mention, since to my knowledge that barbie film is not animated, the next BIG animated firm after it releases is TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, which doesn't come out until a month after it releases, so it doesn't have any real competition in terms of family friendly films
And Pixar’s Elemental.
@@EChacon ruby gillman comes out after elemental, and I personally don't think elemental will do are that great, given the recent history of MOST disney and Pixar animated films
@@christianlandbo4625 Depends on Critical Reception and word of mouth from critics for _Elemental_
@@EChaconyup, when critics praise Indiana Jones, fans are going to skip the movie and watch Mission Impossible, which will draw the eire of the critics because MI isn’t woke. So they’ll bash it. And after it blows the box office out of the water, they’ll complain about how Tom Cruise panders to the audience instead of pandering to woke Hollywood.
"I love you!"
"And I love you, Rando"
Gives Megamind vibes in the best way.
Yeah
Attention spans aren't getting shorter. Microsoft did a study on people recognizing and clicking away from ads faster and noting how little time they had to make that impression.
I wander if Ruby Gilman will be the next trilogy movie because how to train your Dragon is done. Trolls is almost done. It will be nice to see what’s the next trilogy project that DreamWorks is cooking
I was about to say puss in boots trilogy but I would rather have shrek 5, I mean 4, obviously
trolls is gonna have 7 movies
@@Weird_mts wait fr??? Dammit
@@karenwantsmanager yeah..
@@Weird_mts when was this announced? Is there a article you can tell me about
If Family Guy a South Park can make fun of Disney, so can DreamWorks. Its funny tbh. XD
Dreamworks is making fun of the audience since they making the OG Ariel the villain, not the current version. It's a movie about prejudice in perspective and people falsely deeming beauty as "virtuous and innocent" but this villain is.... you know.
I agree with the art style thing. It shows the variety of technics is really fun to see.
at this point, Dreamworks is giving Disney another middle finger
How might have fallen. Reading comments and most people want to watch this movie for the single reason of it mocking Disney, only 10 years ago such thing would be unthinkable and frowned upon.
I feel like it is safe enough to see if they want to infest in it, or not, if it flops, this will most likely be a one-off movie, but if it doesn't there is still enough room to make more.
Now do I think the marketing, and the trailer could have been better, yes. Most definitely yes. Especially when we are talking about the trailer. The thing about is that... it seems to show just the beginning, and the climax, leaving a lot of room for the middle, and this is what I want to see the most, basically how will she manage to balance her life out, as far as I remember she has her small group of friends? but somebody needs to check me on that, and I would love to see their dynamic, and I feel like this would be the actual highlight of the movie... You know, exploring how her little secret altered her life, and if she will tell it to anyone before she will have to revil it to everyone, if they focus more on that rather then her conflict with Ariel, which seems to be the case, then I treat it as just something that is supposed to get us hooked, and nothing else.
I mean what would you rather put in a trailer with this premis when you have just three months to it's release date, a few conversation between friends, or the twist the movie pulls on the fairy tale word?
Interesting theories I've heard is that the trailer is actually misleading us and defying our expectations, however in reality the "climax" is much earlier then we realize and that the rest of the movie is the protagonist becoming the exact person the Mermaid was, allowing the praise to get to their head. It'd be so interesting to see if that's how the plot goes.
No twists? The mermaid who everybody thought was kind and good turning out to secretly be a monster is the twist! It's just a twist we've seen so many times before that it doesn't really seem like a twist anymore.
Then it’s not really a twist is it. Especially if it’s literally shown in the trailers
It's a trope now: attractive *women* are secretly evil.
All I know is that this movie is going to wreck The Little Mermaid remake, and knowingly how Disney is in the state of the social climate I'm guessing this is a time for DreamWorks to take a jab on Disney
I don't care if this movie flops, it's new, and that's what matters. For every big miss that Dreamworks makes (Trolls, Boss Baby) it creates a masterpiece (Puss in Boots, Kung Fu Panda), and I prefer this dynamic to the pure mediocrity of every other company atm.
I care because I don't wanna waste time on shit movie. Why people wanna bad movies to be released?
@@realdragon Because there are rare instances of good movies flopping solely because a lot of sheeple will take a critic saying "this movie is bad" without actually seeing it for themselves.
Then you have the Mario Bros situation where the critics says the movie is bad and literally every single person and their grandmother ignores the critics and goes to the movie multiple times because it is a movie about Mario made for Mario game fans.
EDIT: I'm saying there are good movies that flop like say Treasure Planet, and then their are good movies that make Disneys best films look inept, Mario Bros.
@@megaman37456 What I meant: Why would want movie to flop that is shit? You should want good movies
The Trolls isn't really a miss for me, I liked the songs very much. Idk about Trolls 2 tho, I haven't seen that yet.
Anytime Dreamworks makes fun of Disney, I'm gonna be on that train all the way
That's not Arien the mermaid, it's the main character from Winxclub
3:15 Wow, who would've guessed
Doesn't look like my thing, but I'll be happy if it takes the wind out of Disney's sails
This trailer is going over people's heads. Dreamworks is mocking the AUDIENCE, not Disney. Queen Latifah live stage play was praised for Ursula performance but as soon as they turned Ariel black...🙄🙄This Dreamworks movie is about stereotypes: OG WHITE RED HAIRED MERMAID = VILLAIN. KRAKKEN = HERO. Think real hard what the message is... 🙄🙄
as a teenager (the target demographic according to you) I'm not really hyped for this at all. that's not to say i think it will be bad, im just getting mixed signals.
Krackens destroy ships and sirens drown sailors. Sounds like a team.
Great video I love the fact that you were using the sunleth waterscape song in the
I feel like they’re releasing it early because the live action Little Mermaid is coming out a month before it. I wished they released a teaser before Puss in Boots The Last Wish to get some hype for the movie. I am questioning why they didn’t show the trailer before the Super Mario Bros. Movie because one, that would definitely give it more attention playing before the biggest opening for an animated film after Covid and two, they’re both being produced by Universal that owns both DreamWorks and Illumination. I guess they would have rather shown trailers for Trolls 3, Barbie, and that Book Club sequel I’ve seen play before every freaking movie.
Americans are weird. Wouldn't this be just as bad as live action remakes? It's a parody, yes, but I think its making fun of the audience's perspectives on mermaids, not Disney.
I'd rather watch this over the remake, I dig the style and the new spin on the idea over rehashing a movie.
6:02
Holy crap, it's Sunleth Waterscape! Hearing some of the gorgeous music from FF13 is sooo rare! I had to go back and make sure I wasn't hearing things, it's that rare!
1:14 How dare you! Metroman really did love this random citizen!
As a fan of the Owl House, watching Dreamworks go back to making fun of Disney is very cathartic, especially with such an amazing piece of art. While I am worried that this trailer spoiled the plot, Dreamworks movies, whether they're masterpieces or Boss Baby, always have some kind of emotional core and this trailer didn't show it so that gives me some hope.
My actions will haunt me forever! Hoot Hoot!
Honestly, the animation style is kinda triggering in these modern animated movies at this point, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish will always be among my top favorites, and it did so well because it actually tried something new for style. We get the same polished simplified glossy humanoid forms as in Turning Red, A Strange World, Soul, Trolls, etc. It's like movies started caring less about the art style so much than they do about the actual story these days. Puss in Boots was actually entertaining, both engaging and a spectacle to look at both from the art style and the story. Any age group could watch it, but these are just meant for a younger audience that parents have to agonizingly sit-though an hour in the theatre😆
DreamWorks is still better than Disney though! They try new stuff when Disney is just a live-action remake after remake, and they're wondering off into forbidden territory😂
The premise and art style instantly won my heart
Thank you for using Calamity Ganon music in the background of this video. XD And also for making it in the first place! :)
5:11 then you would absolutely love the show Once Upon a Time. Not only does it have unique twists on classic characters i.e Snow White is a badass with a bow and expert tracker, Red Riding Hood is the Big Bad Wolf, Rumplestiltskin is literally referred to as The Dark One an immortal all powerful force of evil rather than a goofy imp, and the Evil Queen who cursed everyone to live in our world without magic unknowingly adopts the son of Snow Whites daughter and this all is just established within the very first few episodes.
Later seasons even bring in characters and locations from stuff such as Peter Pan, Frozen *ugh*, 101 Dalmatians, Aladdin, and Hercules, classics like The Wizard of Oz, Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Camelot, and Alice in Wonderland.
Once Upon A Time was cheesy and filled with melodrama and problematic things that haven't aged well... like Regina s*xually assaulting the Huntsman. It was a product of its time. I only watched a few episodes before Game Of Thrones took me away from it. And Snow White being a bad ass, isn't that considered "woke" today? People won't accept strong independent women like her or Captain Marvel anymore.
@@suezcontours6653 No, Woke is something completely different. Also people absolutely accept independent women. What are you talking about?
I LOVE fairytale subversions its why RWBY is one of my favourite shows (even if it can get pretty bad at times).
What the hell is even that?
Ooh, I enjoy anime too. Have you seen any Studio Ghibli films?
So Dreamworks is "going back to basics" which "flips the script and bashes Disney".
I'm strangely okay with it.
Can they just edit in a detail where theres some magic spell or something for her to fit in as a human?? Because no human is fucking blue 😭