In the animated fantasy Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken it’s the mermaids that are the big baddies while the krakens are the protectors of the ocean’s creatures. Who knew mermaids are evil? Also, does this trailer give anyone else Turning Red vibes?
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before‘s Lana Condor voices Ruby the reluctant kraken princess. The voice cast also includes Toni Collette, Annie Murphy, Sam Richardson, Jaboukie Young-White, Liza Koshy, Will Forte, Colman Domingo, and Jane Fonda. Nicole Byer, Liza Koshy, Ramona Young, Eduardo Franco, Echo Kellum, and Emma Chamberlain also lend their voices to DreamWorks Animation’s family-friendly comedy.
Oscar nominee Kirk DeMicco (The Croods) directed from a screenplay by Emmy winner Pam Brady (South Park), Brian C. Brown, and Elliott DiGuiseppi. Faryn Pearl co-directed and Kelly Cooney Cilella served as a producer. Mike Mitchell (director of Kung Fu Panda 4) executive produced.
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken will be released in theaters on June 30, 2023.
The Plot, Courtesy of DreamWorks Animation:
Sometimes the hero you are meant to be lies just beneath the surface.
This summer, DreamWorks Animation dives into the turbulent waters of high school with a hilarious, heartfelt action comedy about a shy teenager who discovers that she’s part of a legendary royal lineage of mythical sea krakens and that her destiny, in the depths of the oceans, is bigger than she ever dreamed.
Sweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Condor) is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (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 over-protective supermom (Collette), 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 queens and is destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother (Fonda), the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas.
The Kraken 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 (Murphy) just happens to be a mermaid. Ruby will ultimately need to embrace who she is and go big to protect those she loves most.
