Scarygirl
Smart eight year olds might go a bundle on Scarygirl, an Australian animation visually targeted more at their parents, though its bounce, straightforward storytelling and bold (ok, simplistic) messaging says young. There’s a touch of Finding Nemo in the plotting. Actually it’s more Finding Dory, the sequel, the one in which little Dory goes on a big long undersea quest to find her parents. Here it’s Arkie, a strange cross between an octopus and a human, with a patch over one eye and a mouth held together at the edges with stitches, setting off to find her dad, Blister, who’s been kidnapped by the despicable Dr Maybee. Blister is a big yellow/green octopus … Read more