Ocean Girl

1994

Seasons & Episodes

  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1

7.3| 0h30m| TV-Y7| en
Synopsis

Ocean Girl is an Australian science fiction TV series aimed for family audiences and starring Marzena Godecki as the lead character. The show is set in the near future, and focuses on an unusual girl named Neri who lives alone on an island, and the friendships she develops with the inhabitants of an underwater research facility called ORCA. The show is an example of deep ecology science fiction.

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Also starring Marzena Godecki

Reviews

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.
Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good
Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
yllota I must have been around 12 or so when this show aired in Portugal on a cartoon channel and I accidentally caught the first episode (how many times does that happen?). The story is intelligent, with some very intriguing plot twists and it grows with you while approaching themes like ecology, respect for life, acceptance of one another's differences, courage, friendship and love. It makes you understand that you sometimes have to rebel and break the rules if and when that is the right thing to do. It was intriguing, believable for sci-fi and the perfect 12 to 15 yo show, one that parents wouldn't object but I still didn't find boring or childish, in fact both my (then 6 year old) brother and my (obviously adult) mother got glued to it eventually and both enjoyed it their own way. If I had a child or cousin of appropriate age I would gladly re-watch it with them as this is a great show.
nolarose My 11-year old son and I have gotten hooked on Ocean girl on Netflix, where all 4 seasons are available. To me the show is a cross between the Saturday cartoon "Land of the Lost", perhaps Star Trek, a late-80s MTV video, and a National Geographic special. It has nature, beauty, conservation, and it consistently decries the spoiling influence of corporate greed.There are two main characters: the young man Jason is really the main character since most time is spent on him, but the series is named for the beautiful Ocean Girl. I thought that the Ocean Girl Neri is played in an unusually pure and unaffected way by the beautiful young actress who was also a ballerina, and it shows in how she moves in the water. She is an admirable person in every way; beautiful but unconcerned with her beauty, graceful but strong and athletic, guileless and generous, and loyal. She is almost perfect! The handsome young lead character, Jason, is also an admirable young man in that he honorable and passionate about all the right things -- Neri's right to remain unspoiled in herself and habitat, the ocean, etc, but my one caveat is that he shown as being way too disrespectful and dismissive to his giving and kind researcher mother. So far, into the 2nd season's 11th episode, I have not yet seen him have anything but a disparaging word towards his mother. He pushes off her attempts at closeness, he criticizes everything she does, and she accepts it and is loving to him without any correction. This is as much a function of what I believe to be our patriarchal society -- one in which however subtly, we are taught to expect that men/boys are going to be put off by the women in their lives. Start watching TV with new eyes and see if what I say is not true. However, it is true in society, so in that sense I was sure to point this out to my son. After a few episodes he also complains when Jason is unkind or distancing to his mother.On the upside there is a co-researcher character played by a very likable an actor named Pinder...an Indian guy who displays almost constant cheeriness and a desire to bring people together and to solve problems in kind ways. He is an excellent role model.The other negative I notice (and I notice this a lot on TV anyway) is that people who do not tan redheads, fair skinned folk) are almost always shown as the ugly aggravating character in the show. You see this in cartoons, in TV, everywhere. If you are to find a beautiful redhead they are almost always not a real redhead and either tan well or are covered in fake tan. If the skin is fair they usually are going to be somehow undesirable. The "treat you like a red-headed stepchild" didn't come out of nowhere; it is based in reality. I don't know anything about Australia, but it would appear that red hair and fair skinned people are unpopular, as they now are in America. I've read it's even worse in Britain.I certainly don't mean to compare this with indignities suffered in race discrimination and even discrimination against heavy people -- they have it much worse, but in this series too we are given the message that fair skinned people, redheads and not-slim are unattractive and aggravating. I am sure to mention these things to my son when we watch together, as I do when we see magazines and other movies. On the contrary, an obviously aboriginal boy is a very likable genius character so that is a real plus.Despite these minor downsides, the series has much beautiful scenery and important messages, as well as some really quirky creativeness. I was hooked after the first episode, and my son got hooked by the 4th episode. Now he begs for us to watch more together.Highly recommend for family viewing with the proper guidance about certain themes in the series.
alejandra I was very young back then when I watched this show, but I remember that it was one of my first TV addictions. After that followed Dark Angel, Alias, Lost and most recently Prison Break. Ocean girl was into that category somehow. It was intriguing and the audience didn't know the deal most of the times. Back then I was totally into that show. It was actually pretty interesting for being a kid's show. The plot lines were twisted and the characters were compelling. I also remember the cast changing a lot, but that kept it interesting. Also the actress that played the lead was great on that role, I wonder whatever happened to her. I would watch it any time again if I have the chance and I highly recommend it.
livnluv15 Ocean girl was a show on the Disney Channel that my sister and I used to watch when I was probably like 7 or 8. I really used to love it and looked forward to the new episodes on Monday night. It was about a girl who lived on an island and could actually communicate with a whale who was her best friend. She later met 2 teenage boys that lived on an underwater community with their parents, who studied whales. She also had a sister but she didn't come until later on in the season or maybe even the second season. I remember that she could also hold her breath for like 4 minutes, and she some times talked to her father who was dead, but I forgot how exactly they communicated. There were also these "villain" scientists who were also trying to learn about the whales and were competing with the people from the underwater habitat. It was definitely not your typical show of that day, but it was something that you had to follow and it was really mind boggling.