The pout-pout fish is an animated film following a grumpy, reclusive Mr Fish and an energetic sea dragon named Pip as they embark on an underwater quest to find a legendary wish-granting fish after accidentally destroying their homes.
Mr Fish lives a gloomy, solitary life inside a broken sunken ship, collecting Zen rocks, Pip who needs to expand her mobile home for her hundreds of upcoming siblings, mistakes his shipwreck for a supply cache. When Pip starts moving balancing objects, a panicked Mr Fish tries to stop her and accidentally sends his own home tumbling down-crushing and completely destroying Pip’s house right underneath it. Rather than rebuilding right away, Pio convinces a reluctant Mr Fish to travel to the ocean abyss to find Shimmer, a mysterious mythical fish rumored to grant a single wish every few years.
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Deep in the abyss, a pod of cuttlefish led by Marin faces displacement because heavy kelp growth is cutting off their sunlight, Marin’s son, Benji also sets out to find a shimmer to save his home, setting up a race between Benji and Mr Fish’s duo. Along their journey, Mr Fish and Pio help various sea creatures, rescuing trapped jellyfish, assisting dolphins and aiding a mother Whale. Mr Fish and Pip finally reach Shimmer but Benji intercepts them and kidnaps the legendary fish to the abyss, Shimmer confesses the truth to everyone: she cannot actually grant wishes.
Crushed by the news, the desperate cuttlefish use hypnosis to exile the reef’s residents and take the upper area, determined to restore peace, Mr Fish and Pip enlist the marine animals they helped along their journey. The United sea creatures tear away the overwhelming kelp, clearing the water and letting the cuttlefish return to their true home. Mr Fish gets his shipwreck home rebuilt and Pip’s large family moves comfortably into a spacious ship wreck, in a final meta twist, Pip reveals to Mr Fish that she wrote an adventure story titled The Pout-Pout Fish which is the very movie that has just been told.
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Directed by: Richard Cusso
Cast: Nick Offerman, Nina Oyama, Miranda Otto, Remy Hii, Mark Coles Smith
Running time: 92 minutes
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