Sea Level dvd review

This animated film featuring a bamboo shark who can breathe air and a larger shark who eats tires is over-the-top with the eco message.   In this film, only the 'bad guys' eat.  Pup, the bamboo shark is small and bemoans that fact several times in the first half of the film.  None of the characters is developed enough to empathize with them much.  The humans are stereotypical shark fin soup restaurant suppliers.  Many of the characters sigh a lot and look at you with their big fishy or chickeny eyes hoping you will give them what they want without having to describe it.  (Just like some bad relationships)  This movie could have done a lot more with the ecology theme but chose instead to present an extreme completely non-realistic hope about how they would like nature to be rather than how it really is.  A shark would not live long enough to become bulked up eating only tires.  There were way too many fortunate coincidences in this film.  I showed it to a room of 10, 11, 17 year olds and only one ten year old watched the film through. The older youth considered the beginning a cheap copy of 'Finding Nemo' without the interesting characters.