![]() ![]() It stays so far away from specific sexual content that the PG rating "for mild language and sensuality" seems severe. It shows pleasant and cheerful young people on screen looking as if it's still fun for them to be making movies. And that's about it.Ī movie like this does not engage the mind but it engages the eyes. Meanwhile Hailey learns that mermaids can grant a wish and wonders if she can use hers to make her mother stay in Florida and forget about Australia. Suspense builds as Cecilia and Aquamarine compete to be Raymond's date for the Final Splash a big block party on the last day of summer. She snoops around trying to discover Aquamarine's secret and what with one thing and another the mermaid is trapped overnight inside the big water tank outside town. Soon Aquamarine and Raymond are holding hands and stuff like that which enrages the scheming Cecilia (Arielle Kebbel). Step Two Walk past and don't seem to notice him. Hailey and Claire coach her in the art of getting a boy's attention. She doesn't love the proposed husband and has been given three days to prove to her dad that there is such a thing as love. This is because her father has arranged a marriage for her. Her mission on land is to prove that love exists. "We're discreet." She has nail polish that changes colors to reflect her moods. "We are not fictional" Aquamarine tells the girls. She explains her rules Merpeople can speak all human languages and can grow legs on dry land but the legs turn back into a tail after dark or when they get wet. ![]() ![]() Soon the girls are best friends with Aquamarine (Sara Paxton) who despite having swum several times around the world and having a father who can create tsunamis behaves like a Nickelodeon star. One night there's a big storm and the next day Claire who is afraid of the water falls into a swimming pool and glimpses a mermaid who washed up during the night. They study his body language how he shakes his hair and stretches his arms to flex his biceps. Meanwhile they fantasize about Raymond (Jake McDorman) who is blond and muscular and awfully nice. They're best friends but when the summer ends in a few days Hailey has to move to Australia with her mom. The girls are Claire and Hailey played by Emma Roberts and JoJo (aka Joanna Levesque). It's clever in the way the two heroines get a crush on the lifeguard and then use the mermaid as their designated hitter they coach her on how to win a boy's attention and watch fascinated as she dazzles the boy they can only dream about. I know there's an audience for this movie just as surely as I know I am not that audience. The young actresses playing eighth-graders look their age for once and have an unstudied charm. Oh and of course there's a bitchy blonde with her posse to make life miserable for everybody. In this case a mermaid comes ashore at a Florida beach resort makes friends with two 13-year-old girls and dates a cute lifeguard. Classified PG (for mild language and sensuality).Īquamarine" is another movie where an event of earth-shaking astonishment takes place and is safely contained within a sitcom plot. Starring Emma Roberts JoJo Sara Paxton Jake McDorman Arielle Kebbel Bruce Spence. ![]()
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