Splash Movie Review | Critique | Unusual Love stories - Part 2

Rating – 3/5 Star

Unusual love stories can be in many forms, unusual in their situation, stories or people who are in love. Unusual couples hmmm, let’s see, guy falling for another guy or girl falling for another girl … How about non-human love interest. A mermaid, perhaps?

This is what forms core plot of Splash  – a love story of an average Joe and a mermaid. A brief chance encounter between a little mermaid and a little boy connect them. Another chance encounter years later, leads to mermaid coming to land to find love of her life. (Wondering how that works, You see she is gets human feet when her tail is dry). She is new to human culture and often lands up doing things embarrassingly funny. Makers make use of it for generating laughs.

Another major subplot is a scientist who has seen the mermaid in its under see form keeps trying to prove that she is a mermaid. This turns out to be the turning point in the movie.

Tom Hanks plays the role of the lucky guy, Allen and Daryl Hannah as the beautiful mermaid, Madison. Hanks on one hand performs his part well, on the other hand Daryl Hannah is super as Mermaid. She is so may things at the same time. She is curious of her new surroundings, she is madly in love and looks amazing. (She looks the part of the mermaid completely ;-) )

Technically, the scene in which she first transforms from woman to mermaid is pretty well done (it was scary though, unintentionally). Scenes in which actress as mermaid does not seem to breathe for long shots must have been difficult to shoot.

I must add though that the ratings a little too high on rotten tomatoes but still the movie is definitely worth at least a single viewing.

PS – You might recognize the weird scientist as father of Jim from ‘American Pie’ ;-).

PPS - Coming up next in the series Unusual love stories – Before Sunset, Lars and the Real girl.

Written by – ‘Ali Naqvi’