Splash, Too (1988)

Fresh and Exciting

Absolutely the worst movie.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This movie that Disney made for TV and was possibly making into a TV series is so 1980s cute! It's wholesome and funny AND you get to see Allen and Madison the mermaid again! It's been so long since it aired as The Disney Sunday Movie (1988) and Disney made so many of those that were GREAT every week! I really do hope for myself, my children and all the fans they release this and other "forgotten" movies they made in 80's on DVD or Blu-Ray! It's been 30 years now. SO MUCH FUN! BRING "SPLASH, TOO" TO DVD! RELEASE "DISNEY SUNDAY MOVIE'S" ON DVD-BLU_RAY! A+

Now I came across this movie during a period of channel surfing and I tell you I wish I had just surfed on. This is terrible. I have not seen the original for many years but remember it in a much fonder light than this drivel. What we have here is a pants film with a poor story, wooden acting and sloppy direction. How this ever got the green light is beyond me. You get character TV actors who are not worthy of gracing a movie filling roles filled by actors who on the whole went on to bigger and better things (sorry Daryl Hannah) and doing an extremely poor job of it. The script is worse than your average TV sit-com and the direction is just TV plodder like. The supporting characters have little to no value and are so flat I think I will coin the term one dimensional for them. Avoid at all times.

'Splash' was my favorite movie as a small child. I even named my pet turtles Madison and Allen. So as you can imagine when 'Splash Too' premiered on TV you couldn't have found a more excited kid. Unfortunately I remember even then thinking there was something very wrong with this continuation. Skip ahead twenty years later; I find this unworthy sequel on youtube and decide to give it another chance.My first and biggest gripe; where was the military? Remember the reason Madison and Allen left in the first place? Did the United States government and the rest of the world just forget that Allen Bauer broke the only living mermaid on record out of a government facility and then escaped into the ocean with her? They didn't even change their names! Eddie should have been in jail! Even if you ignore that inexcusable continuity error there are many, many other things wrong with this movie.Amy Yasbeck and Todd Waring give decent Madison and Allen impersonations but they simply don't evoke the same chemistry or charm the original pair displayed. The dialogue is corny, and the characters are caricatures of their original counterparts. All that and slap a truly abysmal theme song on it and you've got yourself a real sinker.The bottom line is that this is a perfect example of what happens when you try to continue a story that doesn't need to be continued. It should really be renamed 'Splash Too Much.'

I thought that this movie, though not as good as the first, was excellent! I love how they continued with the story and character plots, I just thought it was really well done. My only negative comment would be, why is it so hard to find?? I have been looking for years and still no luck. If you find this movie, hold on to it! Because you'll never get it back!