Help! I am a fish
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Help! I am a fish |
| Original title | Hjælp, jeg er en fisk / Help! I'm a fish |
| Country of production |
Denmark , Germany , Ireland |
| original language | Danish , English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without age restriction |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Stefan Fjeldmark , Michael Hegner , Greg Manwaring |
| script |
Tracy J. Brown , Stefan Fjeldmark , Karsten Kiilerich , John Stefan Olsen |
| production |
Frédéric Huette , Eberhard Junkersdorf , Anders Mastrup , Russel Boland |
| music |
Thomas Lester , Soren Hyldgaard |
| camera | Rexford L. Metz |
| cut | Bo Nielsen |
Help! Ich bin ein Fisch ( Danish: Hjælp, jeg er en fisk ) is an Irish-German- Danish cartoon for children from the year 2000. The film was produced by A. Film , directed by Stefan Fjeldmark and Michael Hegner .
The film has been translated into French , Spanish (Spanish and Latin American versions), Catalan , German , Dutch , Swedish , Finnish , Polish , Italian , Portuguese (Brazilian and Portuguese versions), and Norwegian , and aired on Cartoon Network and in UK released.
action
Since their parents go out together, Aunt Anna and her son Chuck stop by. Fly and his little sister Stella have to deal with their annoying cousin Chuck. When their guardian falls asleep, however, the children see their chance to go fishing in the sea secretly and despite their parents' ban . There, however, they are surprised by the sudden flood.
By chance, however, the three children discover a secret passage that leads them into the house of the somewhat crazy marine biologist McKrill. He invented a freshening drink that should enable mankind to continue to live on earth despite the melting polar ice caps . In an unobserved moment, however, little Stella takes a sip and promptly transforms into a starfish . Fly, who does not recognize his sister in her fish form, throws her out of the window without further ado. To save Stella, he, Chuck and McKrill decide to go out to sea and look for the girl. But soon a storm approaches, so that the ship threatens to sink. Since they still have no trace of Stella, Fly also takes some of the fish drink to look for his sister underwater. Chuck, who can't swim, is forced to do the same. Both boys jump into the sea.
McKrill, who invented a de-fishing potion to reverse the transformation from human to fish, finally shouts after them that they have to take the antidote within the next 48 hours. Otherwise, they are forced to remain marine life for the rest of their lives. When the ship and the professor go down shortly afterwards, the anti-fish drink also ends up in the sea, the cork of which opens and slowly spills some of its contents into the surrounding water. In the sea, Fly discovers that he has turned into a flying fish , while his cousin Chuck has turned into a jellyfish . After a short time they also come across the missing Stella, who soon becomes friends with the trusting seahorse Sasha.
The anti-fish drink, however, falls into the fins of the pilot fish Joe and his somewhat stupid, but very voracious shark . Just as the fish potion was able to transform Fly, Stella and Chuck into fish, the anti-fish potion behaves the other way around with the marine life: it gives them intelligence and, among other things, the ability to speak. With every sip of the greenish liquid, the brain and knowledge of the drinker grows - but it also makes them more and more human. Joe recognizes this opportunity and begins to build his own regime together with his shark and a militaristic crab hungry for power. His goal is to create an army of intelligent fish that will fight their way to the top of evolution together with him .
To get the antidote and to become human again, Fly tries to steal the potion from Joe during a speech to the fish people. Chuck, however, loudly warns his cousin not to take any of the anti-transformation potion this far below sea level . He fears Fly might drown. Joe, listening carefully to this statement, has the three arrested. Under threat of otherwise letting his shark eat them, he wants to force Fly, Stella and Chuck to make him more of the anti-fish potion. Fortunately, Sasha helps the three of them escape. However, since they only have one day left to transform themselves back, the three actually try to make their own potion. When they succeed, however, they are surprised by Joe and his henchmen. While Joe and his shark get into a heated argument, Fly, his sister and Chuck try to escape, but are caught by the crab. Fly seriously injured her, drinks the anti-fish drink herself and mutated into a kind of king crab . She doesn't have much of it, however, as the angry shark unceremoniously eats the crab. A short time later he got his head in a large water pump and died too. Joe, on the other hand, hurries after the fleeing trio.
A tornado, generated by McKrill, who has meanwhile met the worried parents of the children and told them about their transformation into fish, gives Fly, Stella and Chuck a little peace from Joe. However, Fly is so badly injured that Chuck has to carry him and his sister through the stormy water. But Joe is right on their heels and finally manages to steal the anti-fish potion from them again. While Chuck has a violent fight with the released piranhas from McKrill and the three children do not have more than twelve minutes until sunset and thus the end of their deadline, Fly and Joe have a final showdown . Trapped in a sewer pipe, Fly begins to engage Joe in some kind of guessing game. Obsessed with the power of the drink and its effect on his intelligence, he takes another sip from the bottle with every question. He doesn't even notice how his body begins to transform itself more and more into that of a person. Its fins disappear, it gets skin and its gills recede. When Fly finally asks him the last question ("And can a person breathe underwater?"), Joe takes one last sip from the bottle, denies Fly's question and thus completes the full transformation into a human. But since he no longer has gills , he drowns.
Finally, the children manage to take some of the counter potion in time. Fly, Stella and Chuck transform themselves back and are finally reunited with their parents. Only Stella cannot be happy because she can no longer visit Sasha. To make her happy again, Chuck and McKrill transform the seahorse into a real horse so that the two friends no longer have to be apart. The film ends with everyone gathered on the beach and enjoying the day together.
synchronization
| role | German speaker |
|---|---|
| Fly | Roman Wolko |
| Stella | Chiara repentance |
| Chuck | Clemens Ostermann |
| Professor MacKrill | Dieter Landuris |
| Joe | Thomas Fritsch |
| Shark / carburetor | Rainer Basedow |
| crab | Gudo Hoegel |
| Sasha | Louise Fribo |
| Butt | Thomas Albus |
| eel | Monika John |
| shrimp | Horst Sachtleben |
| Aunt Anna | Regina Lemnitz |
| Father Bill | Walter von Hauff |
| Mother Lisa | Carin C. Tietze |
| Fish bus driver | Hartmut Neugebauer |
reception
The lexicon of international film writes about the film:
“Elaborately designed cartoon full of exuberant original ideas, which cleverly balances tension and relaxation. In doing so, it condenses into an obvious parable about power and the abuse of power. "
In 2000 help won ! I'm a Fish at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival for the Children's Jury Award.
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Web links
- Help! I'm a Fish in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Help! I am a fish. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .