Like most high schoolers, all Ruby really wants to do is hang out with her friends, but as she soon discovers, the beautiful new girl in school, Chelsea (Annie Murphy), happens to be a powerful mermaid who wants to rope her into an ancient kraken/mermaid war that somehow involves Ruby’s Grandmamah (Jane Fonda), aka the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas. Lana Condor (SYFY’s Deadly Class, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) plays lead Ruby, a typical teenager (well, aside from being a kraken and all) growing up in lovely Oceanside where she's hiding out amongst the humans with her kraken family: overzealous mother, Agatha ( Toni Collette), supportive father, Arthur ( Colman Domingo), and little brother, Sam (Blue Chapman). RELATED: Mermaids are actually the bad guys in first trailer for Dreamworks' Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Worry not, you can rectify that mythical-sea-creature mishap this weekend when “the first female-titled lead of DreamWorks Animation” splashes into theaters everywhere, as co-director Kirk DeMicco ( Vivo, The Croods) noted to NBC Insider at the film’s press junket last week. You might think that a kraken and high school have very little to do with each other, but that just means you haven’t seen Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken yet.
