Cinema: The Miracle of Father StuWritten and directed by: Sean Patrick O'Reilly
USA, Canada 2019
Alex is a parrotfish who makes a living as a janitor in the beautiful and populated coral reefs, where all kinds of marine creatures live in a habitat that the protagonist himself keeps neat and multicolored.
The lives of all the inhabitants of the community will be threatened by a strange black spot, at first nondescript, but which will begin to affect their lives more and more. Faced with the king's refusal to even consider it a problem, and on his mission to clean up the coral reefs, Alex embarks on an adventure that will take him beyond the unknown (of course, the black spot will be nothing more than oil leaks from a refinery).
Clearly intended to raise awareness, the story is told in the purest environmental newsletter style. A humble fish wants to make things right, while humans drill for oil that is leaking into the rest of the sea. There's a mission, an adventure, and plenty of jokes and characters to keep the little ones entertained.
For those asking for more than this, the rest of the film's factors don't quite gel. It tiptoes over the whys and wherefores of the story and the animation is less than most film releases. It is the feature debut of its director, writer and producer, and this is palpable in the overall result of the work, perhaps more comparable to animated TV shows.
In short, Go Fish: Save the sea is an epic film whose great virtues will be most appreciated by children. They consist of being colorful, bright, starring a large cast of fish of all kinds and conditions, from sharks to eels, having a moral and lasting only an hour and a quarter. The whole production is a fable in the purest bedtime story style. And therefore, it is an amusement for families and their children. A journey of discovery of the different sea creatures and their way of life.
