Life is hard for most 16-year-olds. But things get even more difficult when you’re secretly a Kraken, as seen in the new animated film, “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.”
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The trailer for ‘Ruby Gillman’ sets up the basic premise of the film. Ruby is a 16-year-old girl just trying to fit in and be a normal kid. However, when she breaks her mom’s #1 rule about not going in the water, Ruby discovers she is actually a Kraken. Not only that, she’s a princess. This leads Ruby to find confidence in herself and take on the evil mermaids.
As with other major animated movies, ‘Ruby Gillman’ features a great voice cast that includes Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy, Sam Richardson, Liza Koshy, Will Forte, Colman Domingo, and Jane Fonda. The film is directed by Kirk DeMicco, who is probably best known as the filmmaker behind “The Croods.”
“Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” arrives in theaters on June 30. You can watch the trailer below.
Here’s the synopsis:
Sweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before franchise) 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, Ralph Breaks the Internet), 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 (Oscar® nominee Toni Collette, Knives Out), 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 (Academy Award® winner Jane 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 (Emmy winner Annie Murphy, Schitt’s Creek) just happens to be a mermaid. Ruby will ultimately need to embrace who she is and go big to protect those she loves most.
