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Animated movie:

  • Bile Fascination: Positive reviews are extremely rare, so the main reason why most people end up seeing it is mainly to find out what's all the fuss about this Finding Nemo rip-off is.
  • Broken Base: The film is frequently panned for being a ''Finding Nemo'' rip-off, yet there're people who argue that, even though the movie does suck and it borrows heavily from said movie, it's not a rip-off and just so happens to share the "animated film starring fish" concept.
  • Special Effects Failure: Apart from its unoriginal story and flat characters, the film has also been criticized for its lackluster animation.
  • Squick: When Edd and Bartie shove Dylan's face in a lobster's hole, he [Dylan] is seen peeping afterwards. Ewwww.
  • They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Besides being accused heavily of being a rip-off of Finding Nemo and Shark Tale, it's also accused of borrowing ideas from Karate Kid (protagonist who arrives at a new place, is bullied for the eyes of a girl and learns martial arts to defeat his bully) and The Little Mermaid (Nerissa lives in an abandoned shipwreck, not unlike the one Ariel and Flounder explored in the beginning of the film).

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