Cheesy!!! The story line could have been good but the language used is too difficult, the story is hard to follow, the animation is not well done. My three year old watches it because she likes sea creatures, and for some reason she doesn't find the scary parts all that scary, maybe that is because of how bad the movie is? It IS scary in many parts, scary looking creatures and nasty creatures too. I will never get back the time I've spent watching this movie, unfortunately. Just an awful movie. This movie could have been good. The whole idea of people trying to stomp on your dreams and encouraging someone to follow their dream no matter what--it is great, maybe the book was better but all this movie did was make me want to squish Daniel the Dolphin and hope that he got eaten by something so I could stop watching.

I know this is a kid movie, and I technically am a kid, however not as young as the intended audience, but me and my 15 year old friend loved this movie, it had us in tears laughing. We had originally put it on just as background noise, but we ended up watching the whole thing. We love the characters, the graphics were very smooth and bright. We saw the dubbed over English version, so watching the mouths was enjoyable as well. As for the storyline, it's a little over the top, but it's a kids movie, what do you expect... Hamlet??? We then showed it to my little siblings (10, 12 and 7)and they were all laughing as well. It takes a little concentration to fully grasp everything, but little kids, I think, will enjoy the bright colors, outlandish characters and the hilarious moments!!! In short, great visuals, great humor, it kept me and my friend entertained and we had ADD!!! :) Have a Nice Day, Everyone.

As another reviewer said, if I could give this movie a negative score I would - I only wish I had read the reviews here before renting this movie for my 5-year-old. I actually signed up here at IMDb just so I could warn anyone else who may possibly be considering showing this movie to your children: DON'T! We have Friday night movie night at our house, and my son chose this from RedBox; looked innocuous enough and suitable for a young child... boy, was I wrong!! Horrible (read: creepy) animation; trite, senseless drivel masquerading as a "storyline"; terrible music; and - worst of all - the most hideous, nightmare-inducing "bad guy" character (the sunfish? more like a maniacally vicious, monstrous barracuda!) ever imagined for a so-called children's movie. What the H--l could the people making this movie have POSSIBLY been thinking??? We foolishly soldiered on to the end of this miserable mash-up, as I was hoping a positive ending might wash away the bitter bile watching it induced, but alas - I was wrong again. Could find absolutely nothing positive to redeem this vapid waste of time, technology & resources. I thought I believed in freedom of artistic expression, but all copies of this movie should be permanently destroyed so no other psyches will be harmed by viewing it.

This movie is among the worst animated movies I ever seen. To start with the animation sloppy (it is more CGI doodle than it is CGI animation). The characters looks & moves like plastic toys. The animation is so bad that even with a good written story it would be hard to forgive it. The main character is that kind of parent approved hero that don't do much more than telling the small minded kids obvious life lessons. He has a street talking squid-sidekick that is just as cowardly as he is annoying (unfortunately he not as funny). There is also a lot of other characters like the little non-stop talking dolphin & a "CUTE" fish baby that never shut up. The story is never anything more than pointless messages & stupid plot conveniences. If you really want to see this movie take a bath with a drunk Roald Dahl, playing with some plastic animals & it will be the same experience.