The Sea Beast
The life of a legendary sea monster hunter is turned upside down when a young girl stows away on his ship.
- Released: 2022-07-08
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy
- Stars: Karl Urban, Zaris-Angel Hator, Jared Harris, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Dan Stevens, Kathy Burke, Benjamin Plessala, Somali Rose, Kaya McLean, Davis Pak, Helen Sadler, Xana Tang, Alex Wyndham, Brian T. Delaney, Ian Mercer, Shannon Chan-Kent, Max Mittelman, Paul Chowdhry, Jim Carter, Doon Mackichan, Rajia Baroudi, Emily O'Brien, David S. Lee
- Director: Chris Williams
Comments
- pandion1 - 21 May 2024
Yo ho ho
A visually stunning piece of animation. The plot is a cross between Moby Dick and How to Train Your Dragon. There is nothing particularly new here, but it is done very well. It falls down, for me, in two places. (1) the comedy accents are awful and sound like the local villages production of Pirates of Penzance. (2) Maisie is just annoying. She's always right and she just grates. Apart from that, this is an enjoyable family film with big sea monsters. And a cute little one - just for those extra merchandising opportunities .
I understand that a sequel is planned - that's not something that would be unwelcome. - masonfisk - 15 July 2023
A MIGHTY BEAST...!
An animated Netflix feature from last year. Taking place in a world where sea creatures are hunted due to the fear they will attack cities, ships routinely go out on the hunt, w/full backing from the crown, to claim their prize. A ready for action crew is set to hunt but a young orphan girl is discovered as a stowaway on board. Instead of heading to port to return her, the chief mate takes her under his wing which leads them to become strange bedfellows when they end up in a dinghy going after a creature (which we'll come to know as Red). Not succeeding in felling the beat, the pair land on an island & soon discover, since they're still alive, Red has sentience & the attacks from him & his kind are more of a retaliation for the unprovoked attacks they've endured throughout recent memory. Making it back home, our heroic pair hope to convince not only the captain of their ship but the royals themselves about the error of their ways. What could've been another chapter in the How to Train Your Aquatic Dragon series soon becomes a parable about humanity's inhumanity in regards to hunting what they perceive to be prey. The look & texture of the piece rivals anything the Mouse House routinely puts out while wisely keeping any songs (heard as sea shanties sung in taverns) to a minimum w/the voice actors, which include Karl Urban, Dan Stevens, Jared Harris, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jim Carter (from Downton Abbey) & Kathy Burke, strutting their vocal stuff to great effect.
