Seal Team (film)
Seal Team | |
---|---|
Directed by |
|
Written by | Greig Cameron |
Story by |
|
Produced by |
|
Starring | |
Edited by | Luke MacKay |
Music by |
|
Production company | |
Distributed by |
|
Release dates |
|
Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | South Africa |
Languages | English Afrikaans |
Budget | $23 Million |
Box office | $905,428[2] |
Seal Team is a 2021 South African animated
The film was released in cinemas in the Netherlands on 13 October 2021, followed by Belgium in 27 October, Czech Republic one day later, and in
Plot
During the 1980s, near the
In the present day, Claggart's name tag is found by a bold cape fur seal named Quinn and his nervous best friend Benji while hunting for a fish, before they are chased off by sharks, whom their community lives in fear of, but their fear is always scoffed at by their elder leader, Brick. Due to the shortage of food, the seals are all forced to eat bad-tasting
After some advice by Claggart to assemble a team in order to accomplish his goal, he returns to Seal Island, where he recruits the energetic but eccentric Beth, who prefers and suggests to licking rocks rather than eat barnacles, and the boastful yet cowardly Great Geraldo, who keeps telling everyone that comes his way about escaping an aquarium in
The gannets tell the group of the situation, so Switch suggests using his special formula chum to hypnotize the sharks and lure them away from Seal Island, so they go to Cape Town to retrieve a boat in order to install the chum. Once there, Geraldo reunites with Jing, who forces him to reveal that escaping the aquarium was Jing's idea that she escaped and left him behind due to the fact that he could not go through with it, and he was thrown out instead of escaping. After some convincing, Jing joins the team, as they acquire a boat and head back to Seal Island, where they use the chum to lure the sharks away from Seal Island and use the advantage to bombard the sharks with their weapons. When the shark they fought attacks their boat, it crashes into a crevice where one of Grimes' remoras gets separated from the shark and take it hostage where they learn from it that surrounding Seal Island was a distraction to keep them busy while Grimes was gathering more shark forces. Geraldo and Jing stay behind to distract the sharks surrounding the boat wreck by tricking them with a play with fake replicas, in which they amend their ways before joining the others near Grimes' wreck to learn his true intentions.
With the help of Flicka, Quinn goes undercover and learns that Grimes is planning to lead an endless population of sharks to attack the Seal Island population on their south to the upcoming annual sardine run. However, Quinn's cover is compromised after Flicka's effects wear off but orders Flicka to activate their countermeasures who do it by covering the entire area of ink. In the commotion, Claggart abandons the others to keep the sharks busy, while the others escape. After arriving on the Good Boy, Quinn leaves for Seal Island, as he no longer wants to endanger his friends, but once he arrives, he learns all the seals have gone for the sardine run, he confronts Brick for mindlessly endangering them, but then the latter regrets that he already knows about sharks, because even though some seals will not come back, the community will survive, before leaving with the rest of the seals. Knowing that their fate is in his hands, Quinn returns to the Good Boy.
They arrive at Grimes' lair in a sunken oil tanker by sneaking inside the mouth of Dave, a goofy looking, loud-mouthed basking shark whom they frequently encounter. Once there, they assault all the sharks with ambushes, and they hide in a container, but they eventually escape, and manage to protect all the seals, who also lose their fear and join in the fight, along with Brick. They are also joined by Claggart, who is revealed to be alive and had gone to recruit Dolph for the team, who both restart the Good Boy, allowing a chance for the seals to escape on board. Grimes pounces onto the ship and snags Claggart's name tag on Quinn with the other name tag snagged on his tooth, resulting in a tug-of-war, but Quinn breaks free and retrieves both name tags, while Grimes falls back into the sea and is shredded to death by the Good Boy's propeller.
After 6 Months later, Quinn and his friends have hauled the Good Boy to Seal Island as their new base, where the residents of Seal Island now honor them as heroes, and they, along with the gannets and Dave, keep the island safe from any seal-eating shark that comes by.
In a series of mid-credits scenes, Dave is seen as a caller on a talk show radio station, where continuously talks about the many objects he accidentally ate other than plankton to prove that not all sharks are dangerous.[8]
Cast
- Jessie T. Usher as Quinn, an orphaned cape fur seal.
- cape fur sealwho comes out of retirement to lead the Seal Team.
- Matthew Rhys as Grimes, a villainous great white shark
- Patrick Warburton as Geraldo, a boastful yet cowardly cape fur seal.
- Kristen Schaal as Beth, an energetic, but eccentric female cape fur seal.
- Sharlto Copley as Switch, a mentally unstable gadgets expert cape fur seal.
- Camille Mana as Jing, an Asian cape fur seal skilled in martial arts and Geraldo's former lover.
- John Kani as Brick, a scarred old cape fur seal and the leader of the seals who keeps denying the existence of sharks.
- Dolph Lundgren as Dolph, a cigar-chomping striped dolphin with sunglasses whose catchphrase is "Eck eck eck eck! It's go time!"
- Seal as Seal Seal, a singing cape fur seal.
- Julian Smith as Benji, a cape fur seal and Quinn's deceased best friend.
- Kate Micucci as Diving Dee, a friendly, fast-talking cape gannet.
- Anjali Bhimani as
- Crabby Stabby, a decorator crab who carries around a knife threatening to stab people.
- Female great white shark
- Seal
- Greig Cameron as:
- Harbor Seal
- Seal
- Shark
- Richard Steven Horvitz as:
- Snap, a sharp-tempered Mako shark.
- Two of Grimes's remora fish.
- Snap, a sharp-tempered
- Jan Johns as:
- Mayday, an insane cape gannet who has a starfish living in her mouth.
- Geraldo's Watch
- Seal
- Shark
- Matthew Mercer as:
- Dave, a loud-mouthed but friendly Basking shark.
- Shark
- Daran Norris as:
- Roger, a cape gannet who usually just says "Roger".
- Radio DJ
- Bumper Robinson as:
- HMMF Animal Handler
- One of Grimes's remora fish.
- Vivienne Rutherford as Sam
- Secunda Wood as Scarlet
- Jenny Yokobori as:
- Geraldo's Watch
- Octopus
- Seal
- Rick Zieff as Crunch, a dimwitted great white shark who hangs out with Snap and whose catchphrase is "Who wants to get in my face hole!?"
- Judy Abrahams as Guard
- Julia Anastasopolous as Tour Guide
- Bob Bergen as
- Seal
- Octopus
- Rodger Bumpass as Shark
- Remy Edgerly as Seal
- Bill Farmer as Seal
- Quinton Flynn as Shark
- Jason E. Kelley as Seal
- Neal Leachman as:
- Seal
- Shark
- Zolani Mohala as Guard
- Kristina Mueller as Shark
- Brent Mukai as Shark
- Brendan Sean Murray as:
- Seal
- Shark
- Sarah Natochenny as Shark
- Joe Ochman as Seal
- Ryan Robinson as Shark
- Lindsey Sheppard as Shark
- Catherine Taber as Seal
- Rob van Vurren as Harbor Seal
- Louw Venter as Harbor Seal
- Matthew Wood as:
- Seal
- Shark
- Tarryn Wyndgaard as Harbor Seal
Production
In 2018, Triggerfish Animation Studios began to produce Seal Team as their third feature film.[9] The film was being financed by South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation, the Dept. of Trade and Industry (DTI), National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa and Banc of California with worldwide sales by Cinema Management Group (CMG).[9]
While the film was fully created at Triggerfish studios in
Dolph Lundgren and Matthew Rhys joined the voice cast in May 2021. Rhys once mentioned that why he wanted to voice Grimes is because he has a 4-year-old son that is obesessed with sharks.[10]
Reception
The New York Times gave it a negative review, claiming "the best cackle comes from reading the voice cameos in the end credits".[11]
In contrast, Decider was more positive to the film. They said that the film "has laughs a-plenty and a sense of good natured camaraderie in its heart..." not to mention "inspired voice casting" and "the kind of sight gags that look beyond cartoon kids' fare".[12]
Common Sense Media recommended it for ages six and older: "Though it doesn't have the big-name studios behind it, this movie holds its own in the animation and voice acting categories... You can't help but root for the seals".[13]
The film Seal Team topped the top 10 list of the most-watched shows on Netflix in five continents and 27 countries.[14]
See also
- Seal Team Six
References
- ^ "Netflix To Release Animated Feature 'Seal Team' in December 2021". What's on Netflix. 26 November 2021. Archived from the original on 27 January 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ^ "Seal Team".
- ^ "Cinema Management Group". 28 January 2020. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ "MUBI". Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ "What parents need to know about recent movies - The Washington Post". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "The Most Popular Movies On Netflix Besides 'Don't Look Up'|HuffPost". 4 January 2022. Archived from the original on 7 January 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "FilmAffinity". Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ "New animation to celebrate Quinn, a seal living off the coast of Cape Town|South African News". 6 December 2021. Archived from the original on 15 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ a b "Annecy: Triggerfish Set to Make a Splash With 'Seal Team'". Variety. Archived from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
- ^ "Dolph Lundgren, Matthew Rhys Join Voice Cast of 'Seal Team', From South Africa's Triggerfish". Variety. Archived from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
- ^ Nicholson, Amy (30 December 2021). "'Seal Team' Review: Leave No Pun Behind - The New York Times". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 7 January 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "'Seal Team' Netflix Review: Stream It or Skip It? - Decider". Archived from the original on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Common Sense Media". Archived from the original on 15 February 2022. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
- ^ "SA animated film 'Seal Team' makes top 10 most-watched shows on Netflix in 27 countries". TimesLIVE. Archived from the original on 28 July 2022. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
External links
- Seal Team at IMDb
- Netflix
- Rotten Tomatoes