"What if I told you I was once a human being?"
"I don't care how terrible your past was, Limpet. I'll help you forget."
When the focus is on the animation, either standalone or mixing it into the real world, this film is at its best. It's heart is in the right place too, with nearsighted bookkeeper turned fish (Don Knotts) fighting the good fight against the Nazis, and resisting the charms of "Ladyfish" (Elizabeth MacRae) to swim off to the "spawning ground" when he first meets her. The story gets bogged down in procedural type things, however, and the musical interludes don't do it any favors eithers. It's just one that's harder to appreciate as an adult nearly 60 years later. Crusty the crab was kinda fun though.
When the focus is on the animation, either standalone or mixing it into the real world, this film is at its best. It's heart is in the right place too, with nearsighted bookkeeper turned fish (Don Knotts) fighting the good fight against the Nazis, and resisting the charms of "Ladyfish" (Elizabeth MacRae) to swim off to the "spawning ground" when he first meets her. The story gets bogged down in procedural type things, however, and the musical interludes don't do it any favors eithers. It's just one that's harder to appreciate as an adult nearly 60 years later. Crusty the crab was kinda fun though.