I mean, who said that’s any dumber than any of the kazillion movies made for teenage boys? You really have to ask yourself, “Okay, is this better or worse than that The Dukes of Hazzard movie?” Because at least this movie has a message for girls besides, like, “If you want something from boys, wear a bikini under a raincoat and act really stupid.” Can you believe Jessica Simpson was almost in this movie? Like, she doesn’t even know what tuna is. Nobody over the age of 13 would like this movie, but so what? Is being a girl a bad thing? Like, everybody knows what it feels like to have your best friend move away and to feel really, really sad because your parents drowned in a boating accident and you have to live with your grandparents on their beach resort and you don’t have any friends because you live in Florida and everybody is so beautiful and rich and stupid like that mean girl Cecilia (Kebbel), whose dad is the weatherman. We never get any movies, and we’re totally growing up too fast anyway. But I liked how it was actually made for tween girls. It’s not going to win an Oscar or anything. But for what it is, I think it’s pretty okay. I know! If my mom saw this movie, she would think it was so goofy. Oh, and this mermaid can summon dolphins. You know those magazines, like Cosmo Girl, that are all about how you’re supposed to be coy but not aloof and available but not scary, and it makes being a girl into some impossible paradox of weird stuff that nobody can actually do? The movie totally makes fun of that. And while I don’t want to give the ending away, it turns out that the whole movie isn’t even about getting a cute boy to notice you it’s about friendships between young women and how that’s more important than anything. If there’s a makeover scene, they walk out, right? Even though this mermaid (Paxton) is really nice, and she’s like a cool big sister, only she has a tail in the water, but she can totally take a sweatshirt and turn it into a halter minidress, and she even takes Claire (Roberts, niece of Julia if that matters) and Hailey (Levesque) to the weirdest place – a vintage store. Because critics aren’t supposed to like movies with shopping mermaids and stuff. But for all the narrative awkwardness and abuses heaped on Cecilia, the film comes up with a terrific ending, underlining the importance of the girls' friendship (including their new friendship with Aqua) over romance.Omigod, you guys! I just saw, like, the cutest movie! It’s based on a YA novel by Alice Hoffman, and it’s about these two total best friends who meet up with … a mermaid! They take her shopping, and they all get streaks in their hair, and they totally help her fall in love with this lifeguard who is really fine and never wears a shirt, okay? But you know what? Like, if you read a review of this movie in the newspaper, that person would, like, totally hate it. As summer draws to a close in Baybridge, Fla., Claire (Emma Roberts), a timid orphan living with her grandparents (Roy Billing, Julia Blake) at their Tampa-area. And true, Aqua is not so charming as the human girls, especially Roberts as Claire, who is convincing and adorable. True, the film leans too heavily on its "villain," the wealthy Cecilia (Arielle Kebble), to amp up the dramatic tension (as she competes for Ray's attention by lying and cheating).
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As well, Aqua's "otherness" is marked by her naïve childishness, combined with physical oddities (fingernails that change color to show her emotions, live starfish she wears as earrings and who whisper in her ear that she's "smart" and "beautiful"), and a sensual maturity (Ray is quite smitten as soon as he sees her, though perplexed by her strange behavior). The movie adapts mermaid rules from Splash (Aqua can grow legs during the day, but her fishtail comes back at sundown or if her legs get wet) in order to set up absurd situations. The girls and mermaid cut a deal: if, in three days, Aqua can get Ray to say he loves her, she avoids a loveless wedding and will grant the girls a wish. Determined to prove the existence of love (and so, avoid her father's plans), Aquamarine pursues Raymond ( Jake McDorman, who shows a gift for physical comedy and making faces), the very pretty lifeguard on whom Hailey has a crush. This would be Aquamarine ( Sara Paxton), running away from an arranged marriage. And two, they find a mermaid in a swimming pool. They're also distracted by two major developments: one, Hailey's mother has a new job in Australia, which means the girls will be split up at summer's end.
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They've read the magazines and memorized the instructions on how to attract a boy, but they're also daunted by their rivals, slightly older girls in makeup and bikinis. Claire ( Emma Roberts), who lives at a small Florida resort with her grandparents, and Hailey (pop singer Joanna "JoJo" Levesque) are discovering the joys of boys, or at least the idea of boys. AQUAMARINE focuses on two smart, mostly sensible 13-year-olds at the end of their last summer together.
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