Sea Level 2: Magic Arch

This movie is basically a cheap knock-off of Finding Nemo and Finding Dory. The characters look suspiciously like better-known Pixar characters (without looking too much like Pixar characters to attract the attention of Pixar lawyers). When the slow and convoluted storyline drags a little too much, it's nothing some obvious references to Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark won't fix. While Sea Level 2: Magic Arch makes some comments on the importance of teamwork to accomplish great things like stopping an army of evil Moray eels, the sentiment is as uninspired as everything else about this movie.

While there's a small chance that younger kids will identify with Delphi and his friend Zane as they try to prove their mettle to their peers, they're just as likely to be confused by the many story threads. While there's a semblance of a central story, there's also something about a mystical turtle, an election, and a missing fish father. There are also extraneous characters who only seem to exist because the writers thought they were being clever (a stingray named Uncle Ray, for example). Sea Level 2: Magic Arch is in the tradition of the many other Pixar copies that seem to exist to fool parents and grandparents into thinking that they're renting a Pixar movie instead of a pale imitation that's far less entertaining.