A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures

2011 • 85 minutes
4.4
452 reviews
44%
Tomatometer
Eligible
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Dive into adventure and fun with Sammy the sea turtle as he swims the oceans of the world searching for the love of his life, Shelly. With his best pal, Ray, Sammy experiences the extraordinary and faces daunting challenges, including hungry sharks and pesky birds. A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures features a rollicking soundtrack and incredible voice talents, including Melanie Griffith, Kathy Griffin, Tim Curry, Anthony Anderson and Stacy Keach. Based on the actual course of a sea turtle's life, this story of one creature's breathtaking journey is a thrilling voyage the whole family will love! MPAA Rating: NOTRATED (C) 2009 Around The World In 50 Years

Ratings and reviews

4.4
452 reviews
Kyle Vansteelandt
May 16, 2020
Life seems rough for a baby green sea turtle, especially in real life. Combining the idea about a coming-of-age story that roots for sea turtle and the uniquly relatable themes that involves friendship, saving aquatic life, ocean pollution, and even global warming, makes this a captivating and compelling sophomore-like enterprise, and that way, this film will be able to spread awareness to every family. Unlike shark bait/the reef (2006), this film is aware of being authentic and realistic by exposing animal accuracy, education, and zoology (sea turtles don't travel up into freshwater in real life). But, it does feature some disasters that exists on our planet, like habitat destruction towards the ocean and global warming. This film is pretty much in the spirit of Disney movies and Dreamworks movies from the early 2000s; using songs for it's soundtrack which are a good fit for the storytelling and a duo of friends having an adventure. The chemistry between the characters are handled with relatable precision, but there is nothing spectacular about it. The animation will definitely not be a strong outcome to the strong standards of Pixar, but the animation is rendered nicely, beautiful to look at, and the visuals did drag me into the movie, nonetheless. There is a decent amount of character development, but they are cute and fun more than anything else, which is an adequate aspect of the film, because it is just about enough for the children to connect with the characters and the movie itself connects with the audience. For an family friendly animated film, I was curious and interested on where the story is going, it heads for easy plot twists and turns without being to thin or even thick. Tim Curry used a French accent for Fluffy the cat and it has been exaggerated and it needs to be coached more professionally, otherwise it would be racist towards the French. The material from the rest of the cast has so much appealing charm to make the characters so engaging and makes you want to root for these characters. There are a few moments where the screenplay for the action scenes look like they came straight out of a video game. The music score is composed by Ramin Djawadi is full-bodied, pleasant, and engaging. I find Ramin's brilliant score to be the best score of his career yet; The score had send my eardrums on a journey and it was a thrilling and beautiful listening experience and it really enhances the story very well. With good-natured characters that contains decent charisma, a good story with real themes (for a simple enterprise), a solid moral, and some cute charm, this film has so much to make this movie recommended for families. "A turtle's tale: Sammy's adventure" considers to be nothing new, nothing innovative, or complex by any means, however, This is a watchable simplistic children's film that I found compelling, innocent, and intriguing. Recommended.
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Megan Powers
July 13, 2020
One of my favorite kid movies I've seen in a while. Made me tear up. I look forward to the next movie. Just as good as Finding Nemo.
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Gladys Tina
January 5, 2015
I was a little a skeptic about this movie at first but my nephew wanted to watch it,found it on Netflix,it had a little bit of similarities of finding Nemo,but other than that it was great movie watching it with him,
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