As the title would imply the film is about a man and a mermaid. Well, it's kind of about a man in a mermaid. Really it's about a man and his wife and how she thinks that he's cheating on her with this other woman who's kind of flirting with him.
Now he is kind of cheating on his wife with the mermaid. Originally it's more of a bewilderment at this mystical creature.
As time goes on he gets more fascinated with the girl. To the point where he goes and buys her a bathing suit, clothing, food and he tries to convince his wife that she's real. She even sees the tale of said mermaid but she just thinks of a giant fish.
They'll end up getting into mass arguments and then his wife will head back home and leave him there. There's this weird subplot about a third of the way into the film and we're a bunch of police officers think that the guy's wife is dead. So they want to arrest him but he's ran off with the mermaid to the small island and then they somehow get to the island and bring him back. Then Mr. Peabody almost drowned in the mermaid in heard from again. We get this weird story and where the psychologist tells Mr. Peabody about his own incredible story and the whole thing might have ended up being a myth to begin with.
It's a little romantic comedy masquerading itself as a fantasy film. The Mermaid is less of the character and more of a plot point maybe even an item if you want to be more vulgar about it.
It's enjoyable enough for what it is but it's ultimately kind of empty and you won't remember most of the film after you finished watching it. Except for the weird little pool that Mr. Peabody puts the mermaid into when he brings it back to the resort. On the surface it looks like maybe 2 to 3 feet deep and it contains maybe five to six fish
But then you see people diving into it and he discover that the thing is about 50 feet deep and about 500 meters long and every direction. It's this massive ridiculous pool that doesn't make any sense to be on the resort. It's only there so our Mermaid has an excuse to swim around and not spend all our time at the surface.
It's one of those films you watch just so you have an excuse to say. ''I watch the movie called Mr. Peabody and the mermaid''. There's really no other reason to. There's bitter romantic comedies, there's far better fantasies. Still it's not an awful film, it's comedic enough for what it is. If you're into seeing two or three characters just have witty weird little conversations with each other. And seeing the strange antics of a man who tried to give up smoking and drinking in an era where both of those things are so ridiculously over phrased that you might as well just throw yourself into the sea.
Also you can see the scene of a can of marshmallow whipped cream. I didn't even know such a thing existed. I didn't even know marshmallows existed at this point. They seem like such an alien food. Something that only came about in the 1980s when we started splicing all kinds of scary chemicals together. Obviously they're far older than that and our ability to mix chemicals is older still.
What the heck is a marshmallow?
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