Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken Retrospective And Why I LOVE IT!

[@Andreasuprema]

Man I’m so happy that you’re still giving Ruby the love she deserves!! :) thanks for the great content! I even bought the Blu-ray of Ruby because I think she’s deserving of more love and of course I enjoy the movie so much!

[@angelgonzalez4784]

Happy 1st anniversary of Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken 🎉

[@justin-yx4jc]

the one way i can describe the animation community ever since spiderverse its like when a sober person tries a new drug for the first time & they cant get enough they want more & more they lack the appreciation for what good art is in front of them

[@Divers1990]

Thanks!

[@shadyblazeblizzard]

Thank you for the Super Thanks!

[@bitterflywing]

I liked it tbh. The only thing I wish would have been different is if Narissa and Chelsea could have been seperate people and Ruby and Chelsea could have gone to prom together as the first ever sapphics. Also I like a movie where the mother and daughter are actually nice to eachother.

[@JadenBunch]

There's an artbook for Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken, and in the art book, Chelsea was meant to be Nerissa

[@bitterflywing]

@@JadenBunch it would have been just as easy making them different.

[@jf_kein_k8590]

@@bitterflywing I think it was a (metaphorical) last minute decision. As Agatha was meant to have killed Nerissa in the battle for the trident and Chelsea is seeking revenge. There's even some storyboard and commentary here on YT. Likely was changed so that the MCs mom ain't a killer.

[@miguelescobedo1621]

This is a great video! The content was informative and engaging, and I really appreciate the effort put into making it. Keep up the fantastic work, and I'm looking forward to more videos like this!

[@gavinarbogast8467]

Really good video man. I have liked this movie since it came out and I thought you brought up some great points. If anything it makes me wanna see your thoughts on all the Dreamworks films since you’ve done quite a bit of Dreamworks videos already. I really liked Ruby Gillman and I’m glad that others do as well.

[@BlackSoul4876]

You are just as insightful about it now than you were a year ago. Thank you! 👏😁 😎👍

[@justinperry2520]

Chelsea and Ruby did seem like great friends

[@Gingerbread23386]

I just love the maritime aesthetics of the locations. I've always had a thing for the sea and set design but it was nice how they incorporated a mix of: traditional, modern and nautical elements in their set prices. Like how the school's windows are port holes and sections are made of containers whilst we still get to see the stone quays and terrace houses.

[@keshreenaidoo2552]

I really love this movie alot. Ruby is one of my favorite characters ever, she is the first girl I genuinely love like whole heartedly. Every time I see people hate her, it genuinely hurts, I watched her movie again and smiled everytime I saw and what she had to go through was painful and hit me. Her personality, her adorable design and something else. I want the best for her and I genuinely love her, I know that might be crazy but as a 15 year old boy, I just really loved her movie, seeing her being happy, is something I always love to see for her. I just wish the best for her and everything about her and her movie I love. Thank you for being one of the only people who love people, I thought I was the only one and Ruby gillman, I love you whole heartedly, your personality, design and everything about you I love. Ignore the hate about your movie, your movie is genuinely beautiful and I hope there's a future for you

[@bullmonty764]

You know you’ve done a good job making your main character adorkable when even people who didn’t like the movie agree that she’s cute

[@NanakPrasad-be4yi]

This movie better than wish because wish is a cinema disaster nothing more

[@darienschnucker7354]

​@@NanakPrasad-be4yi the movie is bad but the Characters are good

[@NanakPrasad-be4yi]

@@darienschnucker7354 movie story is good too but now day people want puss in boots the last wish level of storytelling

[@NanakPrasad-be4yi]

​@@darienschnucker7354movie is good understand that

[@angelotero-ht3qr]

That's very amazing and awesome i liked

[@thewitheredenderdragon268]

You are seriously the goat for this. Although I don't love this movie more than the Bad Guys or Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, but I still like Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken. I think of Ruby Gillman as DreamWorks' Sonic Heroes. Not as groundbreakingly amazing as its predecessors, but still a fun piece of media, and all things considered, It could've been alot worse.

[@jennelledohan7414]

Don’t let anybody bash your opinion on this movie.

[@darienschnucker7354]

If you're opinion is pro discrimination than you *should* be bashed, especially when it's also pro Genocide. Again I have no problem with pure evil races like The Orcs in LOTR or Goblins in Goblin Slayer. But that has to be done Carefully and like this movie didn't with the Mermaids. Especially the Movie calls Chelsea/Nerissa a Villain when her actions are fully justified by Ruby's Grandmama basically pulling the Holocaust undersea.

[@jennelledohan7414]

@@darienschnucker7354 Whaddya talking about?

[@darienschnucker7354]

@@jennelledohan7414 I'm talking about the Genocide ? You know the one Ruby's Grandmama just casually and proudly admitted too ?

[@CHANIMATES]

We need more genuine teenage stories in animation things like tmnt mutant mayhem and turning red are huge examples of that and even though this does that to a lesser degree it does deserve more attention it's really cool how you stand by what you believe in this is a very great video 😁

[@joshuaharvey5346]

Dude you're not the only one who supports this movie I with they might make a sequel to it😊

[@Granditamias]

I finally got around to watching the second half of this video. I agree with how the movie does deserve a lot more attention and that a lot of the complaints and criticisms are just flat out wrong. I love Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken because of the messages about pressure from balancing different facets of life, living up to expectations, fitting in with peers, and learning to not be afraid of one’s own insecurities. As well as how characters like Agatha have a lot of depth. Especially with her backstory of being a kraken warlord and not wanting to pass that onto her daughter. And as much as I prefer the storyboard version of the backstory and how it could have added more to Agatha’s past, I think Nerissa’s role did sell the idea of why Agatha gave up fighting and moved onto land. My hopes are that DreamWorks makes Ruby Gillman a franchise, and that they make more new IPs like it. Stuff that doesn’t feel “corporate”. Because in the film industry as a whole, especially in animation, you don’t find as many films like that nowadays. And I totally relate to you on not making videos out of hate. I just have no motivation to do that because if I don’t care about the topic, why should the viewers? Whenever I watch a video essay I want to come away having gained something. Usually knowledge. And that’s much easier in a positively based video. You utilized it pretty well with using the audio commentary. A hateful person wouldn’t have even bothered listening to 90 minutes of information on a movie they don’t care about. Overall, great video. Even after one year, I have not stopped supporting this movie, and I’m so glad I’m not the only one doing so.

[@jasonjasso666]

If it isn't obvious, I'm an Elemental fan (mainly an Ember fan), and after seeing the mind-numbing discourse that surrounded that film until its release, when people started appreciating it after making sweeping statements for months based on one trailer, I grew a short tolerance for click-baity youtube critics, and sympathize with people who have to deal with un-necessary hatred about a piece of media. People love to dunk on Ruby Gilman by saying the trailer spoiled the big twist, but I think it's rather dumb to hate or critique a film because of its trailer. That's another thing, I think the unfair amounts of money people get for early as possible negative reviews and predictions, as opposed to more of an un-bias opinion not catered to the popular consensus, is actively hurting media in general.

[@NanakPrasad-be4yi]

Why you are right people like rasior blade and mjtanner are not a good KZbinr they think every movie should be like spider verse mjtanner is the worst she say she is fan of puss in boots even never first one and says rise of the guardian I know rise of the guardian is good but she doesn't know that movie not box office susses compare to single boss baby movies those movies make more money than rise of the guardian

[@giancarlofelicianocastaned9316]

​@@NanakPrasad-be4yiLet people like the movie geez

[@NanakPrasad-be4yi]

@@giancarlofelicianocastaned9316 get hell out you stupid

[@GaeredLinn]

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is one of my all-time favorite DreamWorks films ever, and I also bought a DVD of the film. Also, there should be an animated TV series based on that film. 🦑

[@charliesawesomeworldofadve8024]

I like the movie and think it’s pretty underrated

[@danieljuries9473]

I really liked this movie and really can't understand alot of the critisms it gets. This video was really good especially at addresing the unfairness of fanbases. One thing i definitely don't understand is the Ruby and Chelsea shipping. That just weirds me out. I actually like her and Connor together more.

[@SamSays101]

Such a good film

[@nas0518]

This video deserves more views.

[@queendonut1044]

I Love Your Channel & Videos

[@NanakPrasad-be4yi]

Thanks you still love ruby gillman teenage kraken thanks you shady blaze blizzard

[@Divers1990]

Based and krakenpilled.

[@Lightningnova669]

i like this guy, give him a mic and a bigger platform

[@doublet6118]

GOD. You have no idea how nice it feels to see you rip into the claim that Ruby is ripping off Turning Red. I hate that claim so much because if you ACTUALLY WATCH both films they are completely different. Literally the only things REMOTELY similar is they have teenage leads and can turn into something but even THAT is still different between the two. I'm so glad to see there are still people out there willing to give Ruby a chance because she absolutely deserves it!

[@shadoz6431]

This retrospective rocks 🎉

[@BlackSoul4876]

Know what's funny about this, now that I've thought of it? For all the unfair flak that the movie has received, I can't say that anybody has ever noticed how Ruby daydreaming about Connor and lifting him in the air in that moment is similar to Dirty Dancing.

[@themythosarchives7520]

I agree with most of what you've said in this video. I loved the art style, animation, music, and characters (especially Ruby who I also related to and is one of my favorite Dreamworks protagonists). I especially love "This Moment" the song and the scene are two of my favorites in all of Dreamworks. The movie is one of my favorite Dreamworks films. I agree with most of your defenses, but I feel I should address something about one of them. The racism. I agree with you, but for different reasons and I'm a little more conflicted since I think it should have been handled a bit differently. No hate intended here (against you or the movie), I'm just trying to explain myself, please don't hate me for this. My two cents on this topic is a bit complicated (probably more so than it was intended to be in the movie), but much like the movie says, there's more beneath the surface. Now to address the criticisms some people have given. It's not so much the fact that it has an "evil fantasy race" but more so what the movie does with that. The fact that Grandmamah says they're selfish vain narcissists (the movie never really says whether it's by nature or by choice), the fact that she tries to genocide them even after they were defeated, the fact that Ruby gave Chelsea a chance despite what her grandmother claimed, and the fact that Chelsea turned out to be evil anyway implying that Grandmamah was right. Not so much having an "evil fantasy race," but having a character express prejudice, having the protagonist give a member of the group a chance anyway, only for the prejudiced perspective to be (supposedly) proven right. This is something no other story that uses the trope does, that I'm aware of, at least in the same way. The amount of emphasis put on "mermaids are super evil" by the marketing and to a lesser extent the film itself didn't help. The problem I have with the racism claim is that it leaves out the most important factor, the protagonist. Ruby never agrees with the viewpoint of Grandmamah, giving Nerissa a chance to stop and choosing to spare her when she's no longer a threat. Ruby is at least implied as being in the right for this. Also Grandmamah is implied as being an unreliable narrator with Brill calling her a warlord and Agatha berating her saying "you just love to fight!" So I personally disagree with the idea that the movie is racist. Despite this there are still problems that I have. Like how Chelsea being Nerissa's daughter would have helped this for me. Her looking for revenge would keep her as the villain while giving her a motivation other than "because I'm evil," made her friendship with Ruby at least somewhat genuine, have given her a motivation that resulted from Grandmamah's warmongering tendency (since the movie doesn't really acknowledge it that much after the argument with Agatha). In the deleted scene you mention Agatha says "that's not who I am anymore" and "Mom, not helping" implying that she really doesn't want to fight. You say that Agatha having killed Nerissa would have complicated this, but there is a simple solution, just make it so after her defeat Nerissa left and hasn't been seen since. Also because it would have given so much more weight to Ruby sparing Chelsea after the fight. The movie also has a message about how prejudice is bad, but it's a bit undercut for me because it didn't come to as substantial conclusion on this topic as I personally would have liked (whether the mermaids are evil by nature or by choice). Again, it's not that a more complex motivation is better just because, but because it would have made this story specifically stronger. That's probably why all of the fanfiction I've read about the movie make it so Chelsea actually was Nerissa's daughter (including the one I'm writing). I still love the movie despite this because I enjoyed it's stronger aspects that much. Again no hate intended (against you or the movie I just have a lot of complicated thoughts about this topic. Sorry this was so long, I'm probably overthinking this, ( I'm told I probably have ADHD). Love the video.

[@jimmythedoll9820]

Godzilla needs to drag it back to the cinema

[@gmanthe1339]

PREACH BROTHER

[@Qwer-teaBinch]

i love yokai watch and ruby Gillman. in a better world, brother. in a better world...

[@stormtrooper5947]

What do you mean with "in a better world" ?

[@Qwer-teaBinch]

@stormtrooper5947 those properties would be popular and have a bunch of merchandise

[@stormtrooper5947]

@@Qwer-teaBinch Understood

[@animationvigilante643]

Ohh,gee..Whaddo we DO!?!?!?...Sum1 shud go 2 The DW-niverse..& Tell Ruby Gillman that her Movie is Amazing & she MUST keep making them...(...along with a potential Animated Series debuting on Netflix,Hulu,Amazon Prime,or Paramount+,or ect.)...😨😨😨😨😨

[@NanakPrasad-be4yi]

Hey don't insult trolls band together

[@NanakPrasad-be4yi]

This movie better than wish

[@nas0518]

Damn straight. So better than Wish.

[@pufferfancyfish]

I agree with most of your takes except for your take on Incredibles 2 not living up to the first one isn't the problem the film was just garbage on it's own and contradicted itself many times like how at the beginning the Incredibles stop a giant vehicle and save lives but in the process cause a lot of damage but at the end of the movie the incredibles stop a giant vehicle save lives but in the process cause a lot of damage difference is in the begging they are treated as villains and at the end they are suddenly praised as heroes even though during the first scenario hundreds of people could see the incredibles save lives and stop the drill but in the second scenario it was nighttime and most of what happened with the hydrofoil happened far away from where anyone could see and they even televised a speech where the incredibles said they were gonna crash it so why would people think they are villains the first time and heroes the second plot convenience elastigirl is chosen to be the hero because she is "less destructive than mr increible" but during the movie she crashes four helicopters and fails to stop a building from exploding yet she is "less destructive" to the fact the the screenslaver reveal is treated as shocking despite the character literally being named evil endeavor too void being hilariously overpowered being able to end all conflict whenever she wants and yet stupidly choosing not too to all the wasted time we spend getting jack jack the stupid remote only for it to be used once and then broken immediately too all the blatant plot convivence to get our heroes out of trouble like dash just so happening to find the remote the car a few days before he needs it to save him and violet and get him on the boat or how about the stupid idea that krusher somehow cannot undo the things he crushes despite all he would need to do is crush them the opposite way he did before I could keep going about how terrible this movie is on it's own and how stupid it is that people keep parroting the "it's not a bad film it's a bad sequel thing"

[@toongrowner1]

Oh hell no. I totally can get behind defending ruby gillman but do you not bash Trolls 3 in the way of it!

[@shadyblazeblizzard]

Yeah I'll admit it was kinda uncalled for

[@mcninjahack325]

@@shadyblazeblizzardThere’s a Ruby Gillman reference in the mini golf scene of Trolls 3.

[@NanakPrasad-be4yi]

​@@shadyblazeblizzard hey what did you think of kung fu panda 4 and upcoming shark please tell me

[@RyanPerez-d1o]

I felt disappointed watching it The only reason that I wanted to see it was because of the climax it remind me of lot of Godzilla cause I grew up watching Godzilla I was disappointed low-key.

[@stormtrooper5947]

I am honestly okay with Chelsea being Nerissa/ Chelsea being Nerissa's daughter but if people start b*tching about that saying that the movie would be better if it were like that, than it's just annoying.

[@andresnoyola8783]

I ship Chelby

[@NanakPrasad-be4yi]

Hey shady blaze blizzard please tell those KZbin who makes videos like ruby gillman teenage kraken is wasted potential KZbinr like rasior blade,mjtanner peoples like these spread misinformation only peoples say positive reviews are ganditamias and chilly chivy they tell this movie is great compared to rasior blade and mjtanner worst peoples on earth and saberspark too they sucks

[@darienschnucker7354]

This movie would have been loved if the Villain either remained the very well written friend Character she was or became the love interest, but Nooooo they had to make her Her Hans as a girl. Especially since the love interest didn't get any scream time let alone Character development.

[@BlackSoul4876]

Speak for yourself. I love this movie, flaws and all.

[@KateAltOfficialChannel]

@@BlackSoul4876 nah i agree with this original comment

[@BlackSoul4876]

@@KateAltOfficialChannel Why should that matter to me? 🙄

[@KateAltOfficialChannel]

@@BlackSoul4876 Idk just saying

[@BlackSoul4876]

@@KateAltOfficialChannel You're just saying something, for no reason, to someone who isn't remotely interested in you. 🤦‍♂️

[@kungawombabala9314]

I liked the movie but, chief I have to disagree that it is better than turning RED😊

[@KateAltOfficialChannel]

exactly!

[@NanakPrasad-be4yi]

They ever make a sequel of this movie please they don't do movie what they do to megamind 2

[@BaloraSilviana_PrincessRuby]

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