Product Details

• Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Daniel Magder, Joel Tobeck, Rena Owen, Phyllida Law
• Directors: John Henderson
• 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
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Screen Media
• DVD Release Date: July 25, 2006
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FDE5U8
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #35,678 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Gunner (Bethlehem,Georgia) - See all my reviews

Mee-Shee: The water Giant DVD


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

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's a Fun Fictional Story, August 15, 2006

By	C. Huber "~C" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

We rented this movie knowing nothing about it for our kids 3,6,& 8 and they loved it. 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 your an adult, you'll probably pick this movie apart and find all the things wrong with it. But if your 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 other Disney films.

2.0 out of 5 stars Meh, June 22, 2009

By	Billy Macdonald - See all my reviews

Dont let the Jim Henson title fool you. Its basically a childrens B movie, without any of the cool parts of a B movie.