Product Details

• Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Daniel Magder, Rena Owen, Jacinta Wawatai, Phyllida Law
• Directors: John Henderson
• Writers: Barry Authors
• Producers: Barry Authors, Brooks Riley, Eli Klein, Gary Hannam, Ken Tuohy
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Screen Media
• DVD Release Date: July 25, 2006
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FDE5U8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,041 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Mee-Shee: The Water Giant" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

A crackling good family adventure, Mee-Shee: The Water Giant stars Bruce Greenwood as a New York City oil-company engineer who interrupts a vacation with his young son, Mac (Daniel Magder), to rescue valuable equipment from the bottom of a British Columbia lake. The effort is somewhat complicated by Mee-Shee, a playful and benevolent cousin of the Loch Ness monster but presumed to be fiction by the local community. Mac, however, encounters Mee-Shee (constructed by the late Jim Henson's Creature Shop) and they become friends, but a pair of industrial saboteurs looking for the biggest score of all have other ideas. The nice cast includes Phyllida Law as the prim landlady of a boarding house (she's ever-so-reminiscent of daughter Emma Thompson in Nanny McPhee), Rena Owen as the lone adult who has seen Mee-Shee and regularly feeds it salmon, and Luanne Gordon as an environmental cop. Director John Henderson, who visited this territory once before in the Ted Danson vehicle, Loch Ness, makes a very crisp drama—with real villains and passions—out of material that might have been quite mawkish in someone else's hands. --Tom Keogh

Product Description

Mac, a fun loving nine-year old, will have the adventure of a lifetime when he uncovers the world’s biggest secret: Mee-Shee, a loveable water giant. Together, Mac and his enormous new friend will have to outsmart a team of evil hunters who threaten to take Mee-Shee away forever. With incredible monsters and amazing special effects from Academy Award winning Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Mee-Shee the Water Giant will swim into the hearts of your whole family!

Customer Reviews

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars families with pre-teens or so., February 4, 2008

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Gunner (Smyrna, Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This movie is kind of a cross between E. T. and the Loch Ness Monster. The movie is a little over the top with many unrealistic occurrences. However, it is fun and the kids really enjoyed it.

The parts that some people may be offended by are when the boy uses the words "die furball" to a stuffed animal. This is a realistic reaction for a kid that just had his dream of going to Disney Land destroyed! The other offensive phrase was when a little girl calls the boy "dirt bag". Personally, I didn't think the movie needed to add these phrases but that is all the negative wording that I heard in this movie.

There is some violence in the movie especially at the end that might disturb young viewers. However, most of the movie is mild. Another thing that some people might object to is that the bad guys supposedly worked for Green Peace. We felt that they worked for a rival oil company and just used Green Peace as their cover. The movie doesn't really elaborate.

If you're an adult, you'll probably pick this movie apart and find all the things wrong with it. But if you're a child, you'll really enjoy the story line. My kids couldn't get enough of this movie which really says it all. It's no more violent than the Lion King or other Disney films.

Recommended for families with pre-teens or so.

Gunner February, 2008

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Surprise, June 20, 2009

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Julia Crawford "Julia Crawford "Scottie M... (Shalimar, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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We had never heard of this movie before about a month ago. On a boring TV Saturday afternoon I thought "Why not?" and flipped it over. This movie was incredible!!!! The "Creature" and story were wonderful. We fell in love with the whole package. It was so great to find that it was available on DVD at Amazon, so I sent for it immediately. I've recommended it to many people since, and have even shown it to a few. They've all loved it!! It is truly a real family movie which one just can not hardly find any more. If you have small children, older family members that are fussy about language and the like you don't have to be afraid of showing this one to them. Get it, get some snackies, and sit back and enjoy. OH YEAH, it is not a HORROR movie!!!!!!! Oh one more thing---there is a great surprise at the end!!

4.0 out of 5 stars A Gentle Giant, December 22, 2008

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Kathleen S. Goode "kathy1111" (Niwot, Boulder County, CO) - See all my reviews
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Mee-Shee is a gentle giant, a well-kept secret, that is discovered by curious children. It is a good movie for young ones all the way to adults. Fine family movie. Good father/son relationship movie, as well. There is excitement, suspense, adventure, and of course the prerequisite bad guys (why?!) ~who don't do any permanent damage.