Lagoon

Lagoon is a 1996 Canadian-American fantasy animated film written and directed by Victor Yearts. Produced by Universal Pictures and Wide Slope Animation, the film stars the voices of Lucas Black, Nicolas Cage, Courteney Cox, Teá Leoni, Ben Stiller, Alan Rickman, Christina Ricci, and Gregory Smith. It follows a boy on vacation in Europe who is turned into a fish creature by a corrupted creature, after which he retreats to a society of fish people in the sewers and attempts to stop the creature and get back to normal. It was the first film released after Multimedia Animation/Gingo executive Michael Wildshill became CEO of Universal Pictures' animation group.

Lagoon was released in theaters on July 26, 1996 in the United States. It made $83.2 million worldwide on a production budget of $35 million. The film was released on home media on December 3, 1996. When released in theaters, it was preceded by The Whackems short, Magilli's Boombox Party.

Plot
Tyler Betchel is a normal ten year old boy, he is a good student with a promising future ahead of him, one night, his parents announce to him that they're planning to take a vacation to Italy. Tyler is overjoyed to hear about this.

A few weeks pass as the family prepares for their trip, Tyler tells his schoolfriends about the sheer excitement he feels for the trip. The day finally comes, and they board a plane to Rome. After they arrive, they drive around the city, until they finally stop at a restaurant, upon getting a table, a waiter comes over, and asks them what they would like, only problem is, they're saying this in Italian. Tyler's mother tries her best to explain what they want, but it ends up with them getting kicked out.

They head off to a hotel they're staying at, thankfully with no language problems, they get to their room, his parents watch the news, where the disappearance of a child is reported.

Later in the night, as the family sleeps, something breaks into the hotel room, a strange, scaly fish like creature known as Soko, it goes into the kitchen, where it starts to loot the fridge for food. Tyler is awoken by the sounds of this creature, he stumbles towards the kitchen, where he finds the creature.

Immediately, Soko, with no choice, puts a spell on Tyler, he puts him in the air, where he starts to chant a spell, this spell starts to transform Tyler, from a regular boy, to a bipedal fish creature. Soko storms outs of the hotel room, Tyler's parents are awoken by the sounds, they get up and find Tyler, to which they violently react, believing that he is actually a creature that has done something to their son.

Tyler is forced out of the hotel room, where he then retreats to the streets of Rome, where he spends the night under a bridge. The next morning, while Tyler is sleeping, something wakes him up, he looks around, where he finds the sounds are coming from a nearby sewer. He suspiciously approaches it, where another fish creature pops up, Tyler jumps back in fright as the other tries to calm him, she introduces herself as Louise Morton, another young child who too was transformed by Soko.

She brings him into the sewer, where they start a friendship after some small talk, after some turns, he is shown what Louise refers to as "the lagoon". It is a large makeshift society made over many years from the sewers. Louise introduces Tyler to everyone, until eventually she brings him to the society's leader, Lolkin. Lolkin asks where Tyler has come from, Louise tells Lolkin about what happened the night before. to which Lolkin gives a worried response about the sudden increase of transformed children.

Louise brings Tyler around the lagoon, introducing him to many new faces, Roman, the runner of the lagoon's very own bar, Shannon, a lovely old woman who too has been transformed by Soko and Nicolas, another young boy transformed by Soko.

Tyler returns to Lolkin, who asks about the creature that transformed him the night before, he is told about Soko, here, Lolkin tells Tyler about Soko, he is the brother of Lolkin, he too lead the lagoon, until he started to become corrupted by his own power, this accumulated until finally one day, he attempted to get rid of Lolkin. He managed to stop Soko before anything worse could happen, and he retreated to the streets of Rome, breaking into homes and building to feed himself.

More coming soon!

Cast

 * Lucas Black as Tyler Betchel
 * Nicolas Cage
 * Courteney Cox
 * Téa Leoni
 * Ben Stiller
 * Alan Rickman
 * Christina Ricci
 * Gregory Smith

Production
Coming soon!

Music
Coming soon!

Box office
Coming soon!

Critical response
Coming soon!

Home media
Lagoon was released on VHS by MCA/Universal Home Video on December 3, 1996. The film was later released on DVD on April 4, 2000.

Main transcript
To see the transcript of the film, click here.

Trailer transcripts
To see the transcripts for the trailers of the film, click here.

This film was originally created by MembrainTeksta.