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There are different kinds of weird.
The ancient, mythical, ship-eating giant octopus of Scandinavian sailor lore?
Okay, whats that going to be like?
Its going to be weird.
Maybe it had to do with Rubys parents hiding from their kids the fact that they area family ofkrakens.
This is not any seaside village, mind you; its a village whereeverythingis sea-based.
Every single school trip is to the water.
The prom is being held on a boat.
Why do you live next to the water?
someone asks Rubys mom, Agatha (voiced by Toni Collette).
We needed to stay moist, she says.
Ruby doesnt know shes a kraken at first.
She just knows to wear turtlenecks to cover upher gillslest she be mocked at school.
When shes embarrassed, one of her legs wraps tentacularly around the other.
That, too, is hard to tell.
Her hair is made of tentacles, but her enormous fingers have suckers on them.
What exactly do the people who made this movie think a kraken looks like?
Ruby looks as if a drunk person tried to draw Cthulhu from memory.
Ruby Gillmantries to have it both ways.
At the same time, theres a whiff of civilizational defeat to its devil-may-care high concept.
And by whole endeavor, I mean life itself.
