Cinefantastique Online

Two reviews of WATERHORSE: LEGEND OF THE DEEP.

Cinematical’s Kim Voynar says:

The Water Horse mostly fires on all cylinders. It’s a charming little tale about a lonely boy who finds courage he never knew he had, a cute little sea creature who grows quickly into an impressive vision of what the Loch Ness Monster might look like. The adventure of keeping Crusoe safe has just the right balance of peril and excitement without crossing the line into being too scary for younger kids. I took my whole brood, ranging in age from four to 10, to the screening; all the kids enjoyed it very much and even the youngest didn’t lose interest or find it too scary. The secondary storyline about the two men rivaling over Mrs. Macmorrow is pretty subtle and will sail over the heads of younger viewers, while giving the grownups an interest in what happens there.

Joshua Stames at ComingSoon.Net opines:

Despite the fact that more and more family fantasy films seem to be getting made every year in the wake of the success of the “Harry Potter” series and “The Chronicles of Narnia,” it seems that genuinely good children’s films are getting more and more rare, with most drifting into easy preciousness or childish slapstick or both. If this year’s earlier attempts, “The Seeker” and “The Golden Compass” were examples of how to do the genre completely wrong, then “The Water Horse” is a fine example of how to do it right.