It’s krakens vs. mermaids in DreamWorks’ latest action-adventure and coming-of-age animated film “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” starring a stellar voice cast that includes Lana Condor, known for “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” franchise, in the titular character, along with Oscar nominee Toni Collette (as Ruby’s mom), Academy Award winner Jane Fonda (as Ruby’s grandmother) and Emmy winner Annie Murphy as Chelsea.
The movie also stars an extraordinary supporting cast that includes Emmy winner Colman Domingo as Ruby’s supportive dad, Emmy nominee Sam Richardson as Ruby’s enthusiastic uncle and Blue Chapman as Ruby’s cool little brother.
Directed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Kirk DeMicco, Ruby Gillman is a sweet, awkward 16-year-old who is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young-White), who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach because her overprotective supermom has forbade Ruby from ever getting in the water. But when she breaks her mom’s #1 rule, Ruby will discover that she is a direct descendant of the warrior kraken queen and is destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother, the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas.
The krakens are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids who have been battling with the kraken for eons. There’s one major, and immediate, problem with that: the school’s beautiful, popular new girl, Chelsea just happens to be a mermaid. Ruby will ultimately need to embrace who she is and go big to protect those she loves most.
A DreamWorks film and Universal Pictures presentation, “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” swims in cinemas on June 28.
