Review of Lady in the Water (2006) by Pedro P — 12 Dec 2018

Lady in the Water starts out like an average mermaid movie, with apartment superintendent Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) discovering a female creature splashing around in the complex's swimming pool.

Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) is her name, and she's not actually a mermaid (no tail) but a naiad. Warning: silly nomenclature follows. Story is from The Blue World, and is a member of a race called narfs (rhymes with barfs).

She has come to human lands to provide enlightenment to one man, after which she must return home. During her stay, she is pursued by the Scrunt, a wolf like creature that camouflages itself as the lawn.

(Good thing it isn't mowing day.) The Scrunt wants to attack Story and inject her with its poisonous Kii, although why it doesn't gobble her down whole or rend her to pieces is a mystery. Then there's the Tartutic - a trio of monkeys having bad hair days - that represents the only power capable of stopping the Scrunt.

This is sloppy filmmaking.(Boring, predictable and boring again).