Help! I'm a Fish

Help! I'm a Fish
United Kingdom cover art
Directed by	Stefan Fjeldmark Michael Hegner Greg Manwaring (uncredited)
Produced by	Anders Mastrup Phil Nibbelink
Written by	Stefan Fjeldmark Karsten Kiilerich John Stefan Olsen Tracy J. Brown
Starring	Jeff Pace Michelle Westerson Aaron Paul Terry Jones Alan Rickman David Bateson
Music by	Søren Hyldgaard
Edited by	Per Risager
Production company	A-Film APS TV2 Denmark Munich Animation Terraglyph Interactive Studios
Distributed by	Nordisk Film (Denmark) Kinowelt (Germany) 01 Distribution
Release date	6 October 2000 (2000-10-06) (Denmark) 12 April 2001 (2001-04-12) (Germany) 24 August 2001 (2001-08-24) (Ireland)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	Denmark Germany Ireland
Language	Danish English
Budget	101 Million DKK(around $14/$18 million USD)
Box office	$5.6 million

Help! I'm a Fish (Danish: Hjælp, jeg er en fisk; a.k.a. A Fish Tale) is a 2000 Danish-German-Irish traditionally animated musical adventure family film directed by Stefan Fjeldmark, Greg Manwaring and Michael Hegner, and written by Stefan Fjeldmark, Karsten Kiilerich, John Stefan Olsen and Tracy J. Brown. It stars the voices of Alan Rickman, Terry Jones and then-unknown Aaron Paul.

It was released on October 6, 2000 in Denmark and released on August 10, 2001 in United Kingdom. Danish teen-pop girl-group Little Trees performed the title track, "Help! I'm a Fish (Little Yellow Fish)", which was released as a single in the UK. Fellow Danish girl group Creamy also recorded a version of the song. The Belgian girl group K3 also recorded a Dutch version of the song for the movie. Animation production was split between A. Film A/S in Denmark, Munich Animation in Germany and Terraglyph Interactive Studios in Dublin, Ireland.

The film follows the adventures of three children: a skateboarding mischief-maker named Fly, his sweet younger sister, Stella, and their cousin Chuck, a cautious, intelligent and overweight genetics prodigy. When their babysitter, Aunt Anna, falls asleep, the three children sneak off to go fishing only to stumble across the boathouse home of Professor MacKrill, an eccentric marine biologist. Reasoning that climate change could melt the polar icecaps within the next century, MacKrill has developed a potion that turns people into fish so they can survive the rising sea level and also an antidote to reverse the process. Unbeknownst to all, Stella drinks the potion mistaking it for lemonade, and painfully transformed into a starfish and gets tossed out of the window into the sea. Since Stella's transformation was caught on camera, the tragedy is immediately discovered, so Fly, Chuck and Professor MacKrill head out onto the ocean in a desperate search. When a storm blows in, Fly recognizes the futility of their search, drinks the potion and jumps overboard, becoming a "Californian Flyfish". The boat capsizes and, because Chuck cannot swim, he's forced to drink the potion to survive, becoming a jellyfish. The Professor, the boat and all of its contents sink beneath the waves.