Aquamarine (2006)

All Critics (95) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (44) | DVD (15)

Unfortunately, the performances are often clunky and the art direction and CG are wanting, so anyone over the age of eight is likely to find it cheap around the edges. One for very little mermaids.

June 24, 2006 Full Review

Anna Smith

Time Out

Top Critic

This movie, in fact, is all about conformity.

March 7, 2006 Full Review

Gregg Rickman

Village Voice

Top Critic

This film is entirely harmless. It's utterly forgettable.

March 6, 2006 Full Review

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

The movie has a sweetness and innocence that makes it near perfect entertainment for its target audience.

March 3, 2006 Full Review

Ruthe Stein

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

Aquamarine isn't good enough to be a teen classic, but its audience will leave the theater happy.

March 3, 2006 Full Review

Moira MacDonald

Seattle Times

Top Critic

Like its title character, Allen's choppy and inconsistent film has two speeds, ditsy or sentimental, and never gathers momentum.

March 3, 2006

Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

Little girls and salty sea dogs alike have long been held in thrall to the mermaid's siren song; in Aquamarine, based on Alice Hoffman's book, the ladyfish finds herself awash in the low tide of teen romantic comedy.

November 7, 2012 Full Review

Luke Goodsell

Empire Magazine Australasia

Director Elizabeth Allen sets a nicely easy-breezy tone for Aquamarine, but her comic timing is sometimes shaky and she sadly cannot overcome the weaknesses of the script.

March 1, 2007 Full Review

David Noh

Film Journal International

The movie scores a major victory in reaching its audience with the all-too-important message that they are fine just the way they are.

September 1, 2006 Full Review

Todd Hertz

Christianity Today

Kids seem to love the recognizable 'tween stars, but for the rest of us it's sort of like the cotton-candy scene%u2014we're not sure whether to eat it or rub our faces in it.

August 23, 2006 Full Review

Michael Szymanski

Sci-Fi Weekly

As shameless as trashy cookie-cutter studios movies will ever get.

July 1, 2006 Full Review

Joe Utichi

FilmFocus

The performances are charming, particularly JoJo Levesque, who is rapidly becoming the new Lindsay Lohan (only in a good way).

June 24, 2006 Full Review

Matthew Turner

ViewLondon

This fantasy comedy should entertain its pre-teen female market -- and repel those silly superficial boys (swoon).

June 24, 2006 Full Review

Anna Smith

Empire Magazine

This is when my job feels like work.

June 6, 2006 Full Review | Comment (1)

Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

From Aquamarine to Hoot to Stick It, 2006 is turning out to be a banner year for the tweener-geared film.

May 30, 2006 Full Review

Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

if you aren't expecting much, Aquamarine isn't an utterly awful way to spend an afternoon

May 29, 2006 Full Review

Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

• 1. Aquamarine: I need some salt.
  – Submitted by Criselle M (58 days ago)
• 1. Aquamarine: Who needs Raymond? I found two new men to love. And their names are Ben and Jerry.
  – Submitted by Criselle M (2 months ago)
• 1. Claire: You have to give her your t-shirt.
  2. Hailey: No. My bathing suit's boy repellant. What if we see Raymond?
  3. Claire: It's either your bathing suit or her birthday suit.
  – Submitted by Criselle M (2 months ago)
• 1. Hailey: Wait, if you don't have love, how do you know it exists?
  2. Aquamarine: I saw it once. And I want it, with him.
  – Submitted by Criselle M (2 months ago)
• 1. Grandma Maggie: Claire! Hailey! We need your help.
  2. Claire: Hey, what?
  3. Grandma Maggie: Oh, we've decided to fire Raymond.
  4. Hailey: What?
  5. Claire: That is so not funny!
  6. Grandma Maggie: You girls are too wound up.
  – Submitted by Criselle M (2 months ago)
• 1. Aquamarine: I never knew you leak when you're happy too.
  – Submitted by Criselle M (2 months ago)

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