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Ari Chand, Senior Lecturer in Illustration and Animation, Adelaide University ; University of Newcastle

The Pout-Pout Fish visually exemplifies contemporary animation – but something is lost in translation

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Adapting the much beloved and best-selling picture book series The Pout-Pout Fish is no easy feat.

Staying core to the source material, the new Australian animated movie follows surly Mr Fish (Nick Offerman) as he goes on a journey with youthful and bombastic leafy sea dragon Pip (Nina Oyama) to have a wish granted by the mysterious Shimmer (Jordan Sparks).

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