Film Summary CDIV (The Incredible Mr. Limpet)

I tried my hands at watching another Don Knox movie. Overall it's better than the ghost and Mr. chicken but that's not saying much.

Don Knox plays this character who's obsessed with fish. I mean really obsessed, like to the detriment of his wife and friends. He also has an obsession with joining the US Navy despite the fact that he's easily in his forties (or at least he looks it).

Now his wife and friend don't share his aspiration for fish.
In fact they don't seem to have any interest in him at all. No wonder he wanted to go jump off a pier and kill himself, transporting into a fish. Oh yeah. That's something that happens. Don Knox is staring at the water because he likes fish more than actual humanity. And he's reading this ridiculous book called reversed evolution. (Here's a gold star tip. There's no such thing as reverse evolution. You're not going back in time or reverting to an earlier State you'd be adapting to a different environment as you did previously. It's continued Evolution no matter what happens to you.)

So Don Knox makes a wish to become a fish. Then the water turns bright pink and he falls into it and a little silhouette of him shown turning first into a merman then an octopus and then finally a fish. But he's not just any fish, no he's a fish with Don Knox face and spectacles. For some reason he has this weird sonar ability that comes out of his mouth that can completely obliterate solid rock or push sharks back into the abyss.

At First Dawn Knox isn't all that sure what to do. He swims around aimlessly finds this little crab that he talks to and then finds this feminine fish being captured by a fisherman. He helps free the fish and she immediately falls in love with him. And he almost falls in love with her despite the fact that he's only been a fish for five minutes, then he has this weird image of his former wife and decides not to go through with the mating of the other fish. Which can't be that glorious giving that fish sex is the lamest thing and all of existence.

Now for some reason Don Knox decides he wants to help out the US Navy destroying bunch of Nazi submarines. Which feels incredibly out of place after we've had a 15-minute interlude of these two animated disney-esque fish enjoying this little romantic scene.

This is where the real meat and potatoes of the film resigns. Don Knox fish talking with a bunch of high up brass in the US Navy systematically destroying various Nazi submarines and bringing promotion and glory to the United States Navy.
We even get this hilarious scene of the Nazis point of view later on. But because the set is so cheaply made or because nobody could be bothered the Nazi uniforms are literally just American Naval uniforms only with a few swastikas stamped on it random spots. They look like ''American Nazis'' and and it's the most unintentionally funny thing in the whole movie.

This film is too long for its own sake. There's too many lingering shots and overly explained or extended jokes. Anything to extend the run time so they can give off the illusion of a cinematic experience. This whole thing could have been done with a 20-minute cartoon show.

I wonder if the Don Knox fish 20 years in the future had PTSD moments about all the people he killed during his time in the service.

Actually that raises a secondary problem. Don Knox up to a certain point in the movie is considered a civilian. So could any of the deaths of those German soldiers be held against him years in the future? I get that he's a fish and the only people that know about his existence are a handful of American military men. But let's just say for the sake of argument that the West Germany or even the DDR government found out about this fish civilian living in the sea. Could they have him tried for needlessly killing their soldiers during the war?
How does that even work?