Seefood: The Alternative Script

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I was relatively surprised to find my recent movie review bashing of Seefood had some thousand+ reads from my website. I take it that many people could be overly cautious before buying a movie ticket to watch a local film? Hmmm.

Anyway, I am sure many people reading my Reel Review of Seefood would have also thought “Why so serious?! Asyik condemn je! Anyone can also condemn!”

And so, since I am rather patriotic to the development of our local film industry, I felt that on top of condemning Seefood sincerely, I should also put in my two cents worth of what I felt could have made the script better. Thus, this is my blog that details MY alternative script to Seefood…

(note: it would help much for those who have already seen the movie, as I try as best not to mess with the core storyline and flow)

The movie opens with the turtle narrating that life in the ocean, or at least in their section of the reef is so dull and boring. Nothing exciting ever happens here- Turtle is interrupted by a large shark chasing a smaller shark. He continues..- except for Julius and Pup, of course. As the two shark friends continue their chasing game, Turtle offers a background to both of them – Julius, being a white tipped shark, famous for their ferocity and strength, is also the leader in these parts of the sea. He also notes that Julius has been kind enough to be only chewing on car tyres for quite some time already. Pup, on the other hand is a bamboo shark, a rare species that can only be found in certain parts of the world. Bamboo sharks are widely known for their dexterity and keen eyesight. What most people do NOT know is that bamboo sharks can also breathe on land for a short amount of time! Julius and Pup have been the best of friends since like forever. They practically do everything together…<cue to musical montage of Julius and Pup doing a variety of stuff together, eg. blowing bubbles, building sandcastles, waterskiing, etc.>

Scene cuts to Julius and Pup reaching a reef where they see some clam-like stuff. Julius asks what are they and Pup explains that they are bamboo shark eggs that would be hatching soon! Pup continues to admire the eggs as Julius gets bored and says he wants to go home and rest already. Pup says goodbye and tells Julius to go on home first. He wants to admire the eggs a little while longer before joining Julius later.

After Julius leaves, Pup is all alone with the eggs when suddenly some human divers enters the scene and proceeds to steal all the eggs away. Pup tries in vain but fails to stop them. He follows their boat all the way back to land where he sees where the thieves stay.

Pup immediately goes back to Julius to tell him what had happened and that he needed help to rescue his eggs. Without thinking Julius heads directly to shore to rescue the eggs. Suddenly he spots some chickens on the land and decides to take a bite to see what they taste like. As he attacks the hen on the beach, he fails and gasps for air as he crawls back into the sea. Only then does he realises that sharks DO NOT breathe on land! He goes back disappointingly to Pup and says it’s pointless because the thieves live on land and fishes live in the sea! The Octopus, who was also in the crowd here’s this and says slyly..”Hmmm…not necessarily…”

Scene cuts to land where the two young thieves were admiring their latest catch. Suddenly, the door bursts open with their boss coming in, pleased with what he saw. He proudly exclaims that the latest additions of bamboo shark eggs is arriving at the right time as his factory that produces some type of illegal Seafood Sauce is already running low of this ‘secret ingredient’. <camera pans out of their home to reveal a broken down factory that is producing this Seafood Sauce. Camera zooms behind the factory to reveal some toxic waste that is being generated by the factory….> One of the boys asks the boss if their operations was safe, to which the boss replies..”Of course it is! Besides, we are operating next to the sea! What could go wrong?!”…

Scene cuts to the sea beneath the toxic waste produced by the factory. The area has already been badly polluted and is fast spreading to other parts of the sea. Camera pans through several images of dead fish, crabs, etc. before zooming further beneath the ocean to reveal sinister eyes of an evil mutated eel (EME) coming out from the caverns with his minions of mutated sealife. “Very soon, my army will be ready to take over the ocean!” …

Cut to Octopus lab where he reveals his latest project – a robotic suit that would enable fish to go on land! Julius suits up together with Pup as they venture into LAND! IN a series of mishaps, they encounter  the group of chickens who comically mistake the robot for a mechanical chicken. After they discover that the hens are having difficulties laying eggs, they realise that the factory is even causing pollution to the air around it! Setting aside their differences, Julius and Pup joins forces with the chickens to rescue the eggs together..

Scene cuts to the ocean where EME leads his minions to take over the reef. With Julius gone, no one was there to defend their home..

Meanwhile, on land, the chickens and the coconut crabs helps to cut up some leaves and dress up the robot suit to really look like a gigantic mechanical chicken. They use this to scare the two thieves, who were sleeping and thought they were awoken to some kind of nightmare where the chickens fight back! With the thieves gone, the friends proceed to transport the eggs back to sea.

Unfortunately, the boss villain appears and takes on both the robotic suit and the chickens. A chase scene sees the villain pursue the running robotic suit all over the village. He manages to subdue the robotic suit where in the combat, Pup gets flung out from the suit onto land. Enraged, Julius uses every last ounce of juice in the robot suit to throw the villain in his beach buggy into his very own illegal factory, destroying it. Julius then heads back to check on Pup and was surprised to find out that Pup was still alive! It is here that Pup realises he could actually breathe on land!

Turtle suddenly pops out from the ocean in distress, reporting that their reef has been taken over by some evil fish! With the robot suit out of battery, Julius and Pup leaves it behind with the chickens, thanks them before heading into the ocean where Julius says “C’mon! We’ve got a home to save!” As they disappear into the big blue, all the chickens look at each other and then at the robot suit..

Julius and Pup race towards their home and shockingly discovers that the toxic waste pollution is already starting to cover almost the entire reef! They begin to battle the mutated minions of EME. After some time, Julius and Pup realise that there is just too many of them! On the verge of defeat, the ocean floor shakes as the robotic suit appears with the chickens in control! “We found out our chicken poop’ fantastic regenerative powers could power up this baby, so we figured you may need some help!”

Within minutes, the robot suit manhandles the mutated minions easily. Pup then tells the chickens that they should go and find the nearest coast guard to warn them of this toxic waste spill. As the chickens go off to get help, EME appears from behind Julius and Pup. His mutated strength proved too much for the shark friends and they are soon defeated by EME..

Meanwhile, the chickens managed to find a coast guard boat quite far off from the reef. After some hilarious moments, they were able to convince the officers to steer in the direction of the toxic waste spill.

Cut to EME and his minions with the beaten Julius and Pup. In a weakened voice, Pup offers a proposition to EME. He tells EME that his army is way too powerful for the sea that EME should also consider conquering LAND as well. He then leads EME to have a peek at the vast piece of land above waters. Pup continues to say that a leader as powerful as EME should rule not only the element of water but also land as well! Greed filled EME’s thoughts before rationale suddenly kicked in. “Fish can’t live on land!” Pup defends to say that it’s all a myth. He has tried it and he knows it can be done! Pup proceeds to demonstrate by hopping onto the shore, inviting EME and his goons to follow. Engulfed with greed and more power, EME and his minions happily follows Pup onto land, where they suffocate, struggle and die.

The coast guard arrives and the scene and sees the toxic spill. After a couple of phone calls, the area is populated with clean-up crews, cleaning vessels, etc. At the same time, the police followed the factory explosion and catches the villain who was making the illegal seafood sauce.

In the final scene, both Julius and Pup thank the chickens again for helping them save their home. The chickens replied “Don’t mention it. We may all be different, chicken, fish and all, but when we have a single purpose worth fighting for – like our environment – we can be united. So we were not only helping you to save your home. We were saving OUR homes too.”

The End.