During the standoff, Joe and the Shark get into a heated argument. Just as they complete the formula, they are discovered by Joe, the Shark and their army of crabs. With no chance of going back to retrieve the bottle of antidote, they decide that their best hope is to find the ingredients to recreate the antidote themselves. The next morning, the children manage to escape with the help of Sasha. He and Bill head out to search for the children in a cobbled-together ship fitted with a large water pump. There they meet Professor MacKrill who, having survived the storm, explains that their children have been turned into fish. They find that Fly's fishing equipment is gone, so they head to the beach to search. ![]() Meanwhile, Fly and Stella's parents, Lisa and Bill, arrive home to find Aunt Anna frantic with worry. Intrigued by this, Joe has the children arrested and demands they manufacture more of the antidote or he'll have them eaten by the Shark. ![]() Thinking it must be the antidote they are looking for, the children travel to Joe's oil tanker empire.Īt the tanker, Fly attempts to steal and drink the bottle of antidote, but is warned by Chuck that if they turn back into humans this far beneath the ocean, they'll die. Some traveling fish tell them about Joe and his "magical potion". If they don't find it before tomorrow's sunset, they will stay fish forever. They take residence in a sunken oil tanker and begin to transform it into a monument.įly, Chuck and Stella are reunited, along with a seahorse named Sasha, but are horrified to discover that the antidote has been lost. Using his newfound gifts, the pilot fish, who now calls himself Joe, sets about creating an underwater civilization of intelligent fish. The Professor, the boat and all of its contents sinks beneath the waves.Ī great white shark and a pilot fish come across the leaking bottle of antidote and gain the human characteristics of speech by inhaling the liquid. The boat capsizes and because Chuck cannot swim, he's forced to drink the potion to survive, becoming a jellyfish. When a storm blows in, Fly recognizes the futility of their search, drinks the potion and jumps overboard, becoming a "Californian Flyfish". Since Stella's transformation was caught on camera, the tragedy is immediately discovered, so Fly, Chuck and Professor MacKrill head out onto the ocean in a desperate search. Unbeknownst to all, Stella drinks the potion, is transformed into a starfish and gets tossed out of the window into the sea. Reasoning that climate change will melt the polar icecaps within the next century, MacKrill has developed a potion that turns people into fish so they can survive the rising sea level and also an antidote to reverse the process. When their babysitter, Aunt Anna, falls asleep, the three children sneak off to go fishing only to stumble across the boathouse home of Professor MacKrill, an eccentric marine biologist. ![]() The movie follows the adventures of three children- a skateboarding mischief-maker named Fly his sweet younger sister, Stella and their cousin, a cautious, overweight genetics prodigy named Chuck. The Belgian girl group K3 also recorded a Dutch version of the song for the movie. Fellow Danish girl group, Creamy also recorded a version of the song. ![]() It features the voices of Alan Rickman (Joe the Fish), Terry Jones (the Professor), and Teryl Rothery (the Mother).ĭanish teen-pop girl-group, Little Trees performed the title track, "Help! I'm a Fish (Little Yellow Fish)", which was released as a single in the UK. Unlike some European animation, this film was recorded and animated in the English language to increase international distribution. A Fish Tale) is a 2001 Danish animated film directed by Stefan Fjeldmark and Michael Hegner. Help! I'm a Fish (Danish: Hjælp, jeg er en fisk) (a.k.a.
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