Trivia / Help! I'm a Fish

• Acting for Two: David Bateson voices both the Shark and the Head Crab.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget: 101 million Danish krone (US$18 million) Box office: US$5.6 million in Denmark.
• Breakaway Pop Hit: The title song performed by the Danish girl group Little Trees had more success on the Danish charts than the film had in the Danish cinemas, reaching #3 on the Danish charts. The song was also certified triple platinum in Scandinavia.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: The Brazilian Portuguese dub cast then-popular children's TV presenter Jackeline Petkovic as Stella. While the English language version had Alan Rickman and Terry Jones.
• Late Export for You: This film didn't see a release in America until 2006, about six years after its Danish debut and about five after its British one. This is despite it being produced in American English.
• Market-Based Title: When the film was released in America in 2006, it was released as A Fish Tale, possibly in reference to Shark Tale released two years earlier.
• One-Book Author: Voicing Stella is only known film acting role of Michelle Westerson. To a lesser extent, Fly is one of only two film roles by Jeff Pace.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The original pilot trailer for the movie was completely different from the final version.
    • Fly, Stella and Chuck were originally called Swifty, Twinky and Ploop respectively.
    • The original title was "Swifty, Twinky and Ploop"
    • The story was most likely not about three children turned into sea life, but rather a standard adventure film with a Green Aesop.
  • The second pilot trailer for the film showed the characters with completely different designs and names, but more closely resembled the final version of the movie.
    • Fly and Chuck would have been named Swifty and Bert respectively.
    • There seemed to be a cut character from the film that would have asked the protagonists to stop Joe's reign, which would've led to a scene where they use the fish potion to revert the fish back to normal.
    • Sasha is absent from the trailer, implying that she was created later.
    • In the trailer Professor MacKrill (here called Confucius) says that the potion turning people into fish is an accident, meaning that in the original story the potion had a different purpose. It was most likely meant to give people fish-like capabilities but not turn them into fish entirely.
    • Instead of the more intimidating Evil Brit in the final film, Joe is portrayed as a comedic figure with a nasally New York accent.

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