Help! I'm a Fish
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| Help! I'm a Fish! (Hjælp, jeg er en fisk / A Fish Tale) | |
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| Directed by | Stefan Fjeldmark Michael Hegner |
| Produced by | Russell Boland Eberhard Junkersdorf Anders Mastrup |
| Written by | Stefan Fjeldmark John Stefan Olsen Karsten Kiilerich |
| Starring | Alan Rickman as Joe Terry Jones as The Professor |
| Release date(s) | October 6, 2000 (Denmark) August 10, 2001 (UK) September 5, 2006 (North America; DVD) |
| Running time | 80 min |
| Language | Danish (Denmark) English (International) |
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Help! I'm a Fish (Danish: ''Hjælp, jeg er en fisk'') (a.k.a. A Fish Tale) is a 2001 Danish animated feature film , and produced by Denmark's well-renowned A. Film studios. It was directed by Stefan Fjeldmark and Michael Hegner.
An English-language version of the film, with Alan Rickman (Joe the Fish) and Terry Jones (the Professor) as voices, premiered at the beginning of April 2005 on the Latin American version of the Cartoon Network. It was available earlier in the UK.
Danish teen-pop girl-group, Little Trees performed the title track, "Help! I'm a Fish (I'm A Little Yellow Fish)", which was released as a single in the UK. Fellow Danish girl group, Creamy also recorded a version of the song.
[edit] Synopsis
The movie follows three children--a skateboarding mischief-maker named Fly; his sweet sister, Stella; and a young genetics scientist, Chuck. While Fly and Stella's parents are out for the evening, and their Aunt Anna falls asleep, the three children sneak off to go fishing, but they come across the boathouse home of Professor McKrill, an eccentric marinebiologist who has developed a special potion that can turn people into fish, and also an antidote to reverse the process. However, Stella drinks the potion, transforms into a starfish and tossed out of the window into the sea by Fly. Fly, Chuck and Professor McKrill head out into the ocean, Fly and Chuck drink the potion, becoming a Californian Flyfish and a jellyfish.
However, the antidote to the potion vanished into the ocean and is accidentally drank by several fish. Joe, a pilot fish, becomes very intelligent and builds his own empire underwater, using a sunk oil tanker as his kingdom. His primary minions are a dumb Great White Shark and a militaristic crab. Fly, Chuck, Stella and a seahorse namee Sasha attempt to retrieve the antidote from Joe but become fugitives. The children create their own antidote by collecting the ingredidents needed. Around this time, Fly and Stella's parent, Lisa and Bill, and Aunt Anna go looking for the children and meet McKrill who helps them search for their now aquatic children.
Joe, Shark, Crab and their army locate the children. Joe, Shark and the Crab fight for the new potion, the Crab winning out, becoming the King Crab. An underwater hurricane created by McKrill using a makeshift boat sucks up all the villains. In the hurricane, Shark eats the King Crab but then gets his stuck in the boat's engine. Joe survives the hurricane and pursues the children through McKrill's waterpipes to the laboratory where there is an extra potion. Joe steals it but Fly tricks him into making himself human, causing Joe to drown. The children drink the potion and become humans again, but Fly seems to have died. It is then revealed that he too drunk the potion but go stuck in the pipes, but he survived as revealed when he was in the tank back to normal as a human. The film ends with the children, their parents and McKrill spending the summer on the beach near the Professor's house. Sasha, the seahorse who Stella previously left behind, returns and is transformed into a half fish-half horse hybrid by Chuck and McKrill.
[edit] Awards
- 2000 the movie won the Chicago International Children's Film Festival category Children's Jury Award.
[edit] External links
- Hjælp, jeg er en fisk at the Internet Movie Database
- Help! I'm a Fan, A Help! I'm a Fish fansite maintained by Cynthia "Sparky" Read.
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