User blog comment:Inferno Pendragon/PE Proposal: Joe (Help! I'm a Fish)/@comment-25342388-20190823124935/@comment-1705775-20190823125921

how many kid's films show blood and actual near-death scenes of the child protagonists? I think not nearly as many as you'd think.. the depiction of death and violence in this film is a very different tone from most kid films - even if they had to rush in a happy ending etc.

Joe used the potion to enhance other fish and crabs into a massive army, enhancing their aggression and intellects but always ensuring he had more - he forced them to build big statues of himself, the crabs were basically shock-troopers who were shown as sweeping across the seafloor, destroying anything in their path (until they were defeated via a deus ex machina from above).

death by pirahna is a brutal way to go etc etc..

say what you will on if Joe counts or not (since that's your view) but saying it's not as dark as other similar films is not entirely true - it is.