Aquamarine

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Whether it's pandering or just giving viewers they want, Aquamarine deserves a little credit for having a clear idea about who's sitting in the audience. Set in a quiet seaside town on the outskirts of Tampa, the film stars Sara Paxton (a kid-TV favorite from Darcy's Wild Life) as a mermaid who washes ashore and befriends best pals Emma Roberts and Joanna "JoJo" Levesque (both teen singers doing some movie moonlighting). After expressing some initial fascination about her new friends' legs, what does Paxton want to know about human life? Is it about our politics? Our art? Our ideas about God and law? No, it's boys! And shopping! And, uh, that's it. Mermaids: They're just like us. Or at least the 13-year-old-girl versions of us.