6.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)
Overview
Ruby Gillman, a sweet and awkward high school student, discovers she's a direct descendant of the warrior kraken queens. The kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids. Destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother, Ruby must use her newfound powers to protect those she loves most.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Viewer Rating
6.1
Overview
Ruby Gillman, a sweet and awkward high school student, discovers she's a direct descendant of the warrior kraken queens. The kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids. Destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother, Ruby must use her newfound powers to protect those she loves most.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film explicitly promotes progressive ideology through its overt celebration of matriarchal female empowerment, unambiguous LGBTQ+ representation, and themes of diversity, inclusion, and environmental stewardship.
The movie features a diverse cast of mythological creatures and a diverse voice cast, with its core narrative exploring themes of identity, belonging, and the immigrant experience through the lens of species diversity. While the film strongly promotes acceptance and challenges stereotypes, its narrative does not explicitly critique traditional human identities.
Secondary
The film includes minor, positive LGBTQ+ representation through Ruby's friend Margot, who is depicted as lesbian. Margot takes a girl to prom and wears rainbow accessories, integrating LGBTQ+ identity subtly into the background. The portrayal is normalized and benign, presenting an accepting view of homosexual relationships without negative framing, contributing to themes of diversity and inclusion in a family-friendly context.
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken does not portray transsexual characters or themes. The film focuses on a teenage kraken's identity discovery and family relationships. Although it includes LGBTQ representation via a lesbian character, transsexual identities are not depicted or addressed in the movie's storyline or character arcs.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film is an original story, not an adaptation of pre-existing source material or historical records. All characters' genders are established within the film's original narrative, meaning no character's on-screen gender differs from a prior canonical or historical gender.
The primary characters are non-human mythical creatures (krakens, mermaids) whose race was not established as human in any source material. The film's human population consists of original characters and a diverse background cast without historical or canonical racial baselines. Consequently, no race swap is identified.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.7
7.2
Critic Ratings
6.5
5.0
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