Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken Movie Review — Surf’s Up for Kids

Erin Underwood
3 min readJul 4, 2023

Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken is a new coming of age film from DreamWorks that features a shy teen who is just trying to fit in at high school. However, things go sideways and her plans for prom don’t quite pan out when she learns that she’s a giant kraken. Worse, it turns out that the cool new girl is a mermaid, who everyone loves. Fabled royal giant kraken princess or not, nobody needs to learn that they are a kraken when they’re just trying to get through math class.

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Erin Underwood

BIO: Erin Underwood is the senior event content producer for MIT Technology Review’s emerging technology events. On the side, she reads, writes, and edits SF.