Octonauts and the Great Barrier Reef

As a middle aged adult, I am _clearly_ not the intended audience of this movie. And that's okay. I saw it while showing it to those who are the intended audience. That said, I did have a few thoughts: * Someone, somewhere, graduated from a theater arts program with big dreams of scoring musicals and brought all that passion and drive to this movie and knocked the musical scenes out of the park. The lyrics and the score were Broadway musical quality. There were some rhymes made that impressed the adults gathered, though they flew over the heads of the children. * The plot very much shortcuts the ecological issue. They make it seem like [spoiler]Crown of Thorns sea stars eat reefs and that's what kills reefs[/spoiler], when in fact it is that [spoiler]the reefs are dying due to some other cause and the Crown of Thorns sea stars show up to gobble up the detritus[/spoiler]. It's a minor thing, but it stuck in my craw, especially since children the age this is marketed to take in information from shows such as this as fact and this was taking liberties with ecology for the sake of a simplistic plot.