“Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken,” which marks DreamWorks Animation’s first female-led feature, adds a new twist to the coming-of-age/monster transformation story (Pixar’s “Luca” and “Turning Red”). It ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken has a lot going for her. For starters, says the film’s director Kirk DeMicco (Vivo, The Croods), “she’s a princess, a superhero” and the first female titular ...

Teenage Kraken is a formulaic and familiar coming-of-age storyline, helped by an endearing take on the identity of krakens and mermaids that audiences have yet to see on the big screen. In other words ...

It is hard to be disappointed in a movie like Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken. In a year that, with some notable exceptions aside, has been relatively light on solid animated fare, there is something ...

This week on Movie Titles That Are Better Than the Movies Themselves Theatre is Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (now streaming on Netflix, in addition to VOD services like Amazon Prime Video), which nips ...

Dreamworks is riding high after the successes of last year’s The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The studio will be hoping for similar results with its latest film, Ruby Gillman: Teenage ...

Body hair, pimples, your first crush these are all teenage problems. But throw in giant tentacles in the mix and you get the movie “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken”. And she exists to protect us from ...

Director Kirk DeMicco was drawn to redeeming the kraken while making the animation studio's first female-led feature about mothers and daughters struggling with identity. There’s the titular teen sea ...

After a quick prologue exploring the unexpected history of giant Krakens –– who in this universe are the staunch protectors of the oceans, doing battle with nasty mermaids –– we’re introduced to ...