This family friendly Japanese animation plays a variation on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid
This family friendly Japanese animation plays a variation on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.
A sulky teenage boy in a small seaside town befriends a cute mermaid called Lu after she joins in with the music he is making with a couple of classmates. Her singing proves enchanting, but the town has a long-held suspicion of merfolk...
Masaaki Yuasa's film certainly has its quirky charms, but it is overlong and the crudely colourful animation lacks the magic touch of Studio Ghibli classics.
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