Magic in the Water

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"Magic in the Water" is a movie about a girl named Ashley (played by Sarah Wayne) and her brother Joshua (played by Joshua Jackson) who are taken by their workaholic dad named Jack Black (played by Mark Harmon) to a lake in British Columbia where a fabled lake monster, much like the Loch Ness Monster, is believed to exist. The two kids discover that this monster (named Orky) is in fact real, and Ashley befriends it, and attempts to get closer to her dad, and stop polluters from throwing toxic waste into Orky's lake.

[edit] The Oreo Scene

There is a scene in the movie where Ashley is starting to realize that there might in fact be a friendly lake monster dwelling in the depths of this lake, so decides to leave out some Oreo Cookies on the edge of a dock for Orky to eat. The next morning, she wakes up to find the Oreos still there, but the centers licked out by something which is cleary not a small animal such as a rodent because they would have eaten the cookies too. It does leave you wondering how that giant monster managed to just eat the inside of a Oreo.

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Waring contains more spoilers than the above paragraph. It all ends while Ashley, Josh and the kid from Japan are trapped inside a sunk "fake Orky". Meanwhile Jack Black has fallen through the hole he dug. The kids get rescued by Orky and are freed by their dad. They discover where Orky lives and see him lying on the shore of his underground cave. They thank him but he apparently dies. The bad guy get arested and everyone is sad. They next day Ashley and the Japanese kid camp out on the dock with a plate of oreos. When they wake up the next moring the insides are licked clean.

[edit] Reaction

Magic in the Water in general did not get very good reviews, some critics calling it a bad attempt to copy Free Willy and the Air Bud films. Reviews can be found here.