#max sharkboy and lavagirl

[foggybear42]

i rewatched sharkboy and lavagirl and this might be my favourite shot in the whole movie

[plutonicbees]

watched some of the first episode of smallville and laughed so hard I couldn't finish it (not in a negative way but very much in a "help what is happening" way) (I feel like I need to watch it with a friend in the name of mutual bewilderment)

lana's parents waving at her and then getting HIT BY A METEOR is comedy. they just see it coming towards them and don't even run away before the early 2000s cgi gets them good

baby lex luthor getting HIS HAIR BLOWN OFF BY A METEOR. I'm sobbing. it's giving "he knocked the highlights out of her hair". his eyebrows r still there but oops you're an egg now.

[rememberingnoah]

i think i just had an epiphany on why i like sharks and the color pink so much

[stellarf0x]

I’ve decided to add a “fight” scene that feels like it might fit into a series for SB & LB.

A dodgeball scene that’s very over the top and anime.

[scifipinups]

Kristin Davis The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3D (2005)

[yuttikkele]

sharkboy and lavagirl is genuinely such a fun movie to watch, and it ALWAYS will be. I haven’t watched it in a while, but I did watch it again and it continues to hold up and more!

I get so tired of seeing media that fails in everything it tries to do. Like “oh here’s the cool character” that’s actually the lamest person I’ve ever seen, or “oh this is quirky and funny, laugh!” but it’s the most fake “popular girl”-esque joke I’ve ever heard. But sharkboy and lavagirl just takes its cartooniness and FLIES. Sharkboy is actually AWESOME, and the jokes are genuinely funny. The romance isn’t even messed up because there’s barely any romance. The only explicit romance is max’s parents’ marriage healing, and the other two romances are just assumed. Whatever Max and Marissa had going on was a clever little mirroring that allowed Marissa’s character to progress, and Sharkboy and Lavagirl are compliments, red character x blue character DUH.

maybe I got my humor from sharkboy and lavagirl or something cause when i see a place for a joke in another piece of media, but no joke happens, i get disappointed. That doesn’t happen while watching sharkboy and lavagirl!! it makes me so ecstatic.

and Linus actually becoming good. I forgot about that! I thought he was gonna pull Max down, but he actually got a chance, and changed!! (Miraculous Ladybug makes me think this is no longer possible, apparently)

AND THE GRAPHICS!!! i love the graphics they’re such a vibe and you know it!!

love this movie

[auggieboggy]

Late Halloween post

They're lavagirl, sharkboy, and max 😋

[click for better quality]

[lishifts]

sharkboy and lavagirl is a movie about shifting!!! YOU CANT TELL ME OTHERWISE it’s both manifestation and shifting. max wishes he could go to planet drool before going to sleep then falls asleep and the next day is when everything happens sharkboy and lavagirl pull up take him all his dreams come true all of them, then he wakes up back in class everyone wakes up then the dream villain comes and they defeat him. not to forget everything they said came true continuously. HIS ENTIRE EXPERIENCE WAS A SHIFT AND YOU CANT TELL ME MAX’S DREAM JOURNAL WASN’T A SCRIPT (edit: also just found out it’s based on the writer’s son’s dreams so like🤭 hear me out his son shifted.) “the following story is true, it might’ve started as a dream but as we saw yesterday. when we make our dreams a reality, reality becomes a dream. so dream a better dream and work to make it real.”

[chaossmith2]

Sharkboy & Lavagirl 🦈🔥

Doing my own little HC where they're portrayed to be more like adults in the story. I think it'd be interesting if SB and LG were meant to represent super idealized "parents" max came up with to serve as escapism from his irl parent's divorce/messy relationship, (since the movie's major theme is using dreams to avoid/cope with problems in the real world) and obv throughout the movie their flaws and insecurities start shining through etc. etc.

[theaawalker]

Fandoms I'll Write For

Marvel (not Iron Man, Starlord, Loki, Thor, Doctor Strange, or Hawkeye, Drax, Victor Creed, Antman, Adam Warlocke, AG's Spiderman, or Cyclops)

DCEU (not Peacemaker, Killer Croc, JL's Joker, RP's Batman, or anyone from Gotham except Jerome/Jeremiah Valeska)

Scream Queens (not Chad Radwell or Pete Martinez)

American Horror Story (only Murder House, 1984, Freakshow, and Cult)

Hunger Games (not Gale, Maymitch, President Snow, or Cato)

The Maze Runner (not Ava Paige, Jorge, or Janson)

My Little Pony

Once Upon A Time (not Hook, David, Rumple, Neal, Peter Pan, or Zelena)

Pacific Rim (not the sequel)

Twilight (not Seth, Edward, Carlyle, or Jasper)

Stranger Things (not Will Byers, Billy Hargrove, or Jim Hopper)

IT (2017, 2019, and tv series) (not Henry Bowers or Pennywise)

Jurassic Park/World (not Owen Grady or Ian Malcolm)

Jumanji (1997 & 2017)

Zathura (not the dad or robot)

Stand By Me (not Ace Merrill)

Girl, Interrupted (not Jared Leto's character)

The Black Phone (not the Grabber or Mr. Blake)

Teen Wolf (the film & series)

Equestria Girls

Teen Wolf (not Peter, Jackson, Theo, or Derek)

The Office (not Jim, Ryan, or Dwight)

Now You See Me (not Dylan Rhodes or Merritt McKinney)

Descendants (not Chad, Harry, Ben, Jay, or Carlos)

Sky High (not Zach or Speed)

Percy Jackson films (not Luke Castellan)

The Umbrella Academy (not Five)

TMNT (live action ver. only)

Dance Moms (not the final season)

Ender's Game

Wednesday (not Xavier, Tyler, or the Dean)

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse (not Mentor Peter Parker)

Unbreakable (not Hedwig or Dennis)

Big Hero 6

The Black Mirror

Dynasty (not Culhane, Adam, or Blake)

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Spy Kids

Sharkboy & Lavagirl

Clue, Knives Out, & Glass Onion

Back to the Future (not Biff), Breakfast Club (not Bender), Sandlot, Stand By Me (not Ace Merrill), Mighty Ducks, The Outsiders (not Dally, Two-Bit, Randy, Bob, Steve, or Darry)

I’m willing to write imagines for underage characters so long as there's no romance (examples: hang out with the Losers Club at the barrens; go shopping with Eleven and Max; play baseball with Finney and Bruce). I’m allowed to deny any request and the longest I should take ever to write one is about 2 weeks. I’ll write smut, fluff, angst, poly relationships, LGBTQ+, etc. Generally most of my x readers are female unless stated otherwise.

What I won’t write-

I won’t write anything to do with rape, bestiality, necrophilia, incest, romance with anyone younger than 18, gun play, anything about poo(sexually), anything about urine(squirting is fine considering it’s not technically urine), age gaps. See guidelines for more details.

Thanks for reading❤️

A.A. Walker

[emptypencilcase]

you ever just sit and think about sharkboy and lavagirl? yeah, me too.

anyway, here’s a (not very detailed) analysis of those two characters and their significance to max in the movie.

So it’s made very obvious to us as the audience that certain characters in Max’s fantasy world are entirely (and might I add, very subtly) based off of people in his own life:

Except for Sharkboy and Lavagirl, right? WRONG. In that universe they are fictional characters made by Max who (in my opinion) were created by him to cope with his shitty life. The reason I think this is because Sharkboy and Lavagirl are personifications of Max’s own insecurities and imperfections.

Sharkboy, personality-wise, is very much like Max; he’s emotional, short-tempered, emo. He also has experiences that mirror Max’s own life, for example: him losing his father. Sharkboy losing his dad is a direct parallel to how Max feels about his own parents, who are too busy fighting with each other to pay their (obviously struggling) son any attention, and even unload their problems onto him. a nine year old?! anyways, Max’s parents’ negligence of him and his problems is his equivalent to them “drifting away”. (much like Sharkboy’s dad did on that lifeboat!!)

Moving on to Lavagirl!! Lavagirl feels like she’s not a good person; all she can do is harm people, and destroy things. She burns. This is kind of like how Max feels about everything in his life; his parents’ marriage, any potential relationship he could form in school, his dream journal- all ruined because he wasn’t good enough. It’s his fault. And that’s what Lavagirl is supposed to represent, that feeling of not being good enough. 

So it would make sense for Max-a nine year old child-to process the world through this lense of superheroes and supervillains. He feels better about his own problems knowing that there are these “heroes” out there with the same problems. But he takes it too far.

Max is a creative kid, we know this. It was obvious since the beginning!! He started building a robot on his own for gods’ sakes?! He uses his creativity as a way to cope, like we’ve seen with him creating Sharkboy and Lavagirl. But the adults in his life are telling him to stop: stop dreaming, and stop being creative. They say this because they can probably see where this is going.

So this mentally ill child is told to stop using the one and only coping mechanism that seems to be working for him, and he tries. He really does try. However, because no one ever bothered to find/teach him a healthier way to help him cope, he goes the complete opposite direction. All of a sudden Sharkboy and Lavagirl are actually real!! and they need Max, and he’s thinking “finally I’m needed, I’m wanted.” when in reality he’s just FUCKING CRAZY AND DELUSIONAL. But that’s what happens. The End.

Oh and I failed to mention, Max probably also has autism and it helps him to view the world using fictional stories/characters. And his unfinished robot is a metaphor for the pressure that is put on him to stop being creative.

ok bye!

[blackbullet99]

Am I the only one who genuinely loves The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl?

Like, I know a lot of people don’t think highly of the movie, and it didn’t do very well. But I genuinely enjoy this movie. I mean the movie is kinda goofy and ridiculous, but that’s kinda the point and all the over the top acting, PS2 CGI and all around cheesiness give the movie a certain charm to it, making it genuinely fun and enjoyable to watch. George Lopez as Mr. Electric and Jacob Davich as Linus are just hilarious to watch, they knew exactly what type of movie this was and didn’t hold back. I mean who could forget this masterpiece of acting.

Both lead actors Taylor Launter and Taylor Dooley (the Taylors as I’m gonna call them) also do a genuinely great job portraying the characters.

Taylor Launter (A.K.A. Jacob from Twilight) really goes ham on this film, it’s really over the top (to the point of literally chewing the scenery) but it’s a really enjoyable over the top performance, if you know what I mean and he has a good range of emotion in this, if that makes sense. Also this song will always be a banger!

Additionally Taylor Dooley’s performance is also a good one. There’s a certain wholesomeness to her.

It’s much more calm and reserved than Launter’s, but I kinda like that, it helps the two to balance each other out, and is also a neat subversion of the fire character being hot tempered and the water character being calm. I also like how her calmness contrasts with her destructive power and her arc of finding a productive use for them. It’s nothing groundbreaking or nothing, but the movie has a good amount of set ups and pay-offs.

But all in all, I think this movie works so well is because it’s literally based on the dreams that a child had. Robert Rodriguez essentially based the film on the dreams of his son Racer Max Rodriguez, and the movie genuinely feels like a dream a child would have, and I mean that in a good way. It explains why everything is so bright and over the top, why everything looks unreal and animated, even a lot of the dialogue was literally written by a child. Some might find this a bad thing, but I don’t know, I myself find this endearing, like looking into the mind of a child, it makes the movie feel like a passion project and it is.

Just check out the behind the scenes video about the making of the movie, as I said before, there’s a certain wholesomeness in the film, and that combined with how entertaining the over the top ridiculousness of everything makes this one of my favorite movies of all time.

And with that statement I’m ready to lose whatever credibility I may have, but I don’t care.

Sharkboy and Lavagirl FOREVER!

[stellarf0x]

Would anyone be interested in hearing the parallels I have for the relationship between SB and LG and Max’s parents? There’s a lot going on there.

[kre3ce]

I'm so sorry but the way zuko said YOU HAVE MY NOTEBOOK is the exact same as max going YOU TOOK MY DREAM JOURNAL in sharkboy and lavagirl

tell me I'm wrong I'm waiting

[ingydar-phan]

not dnp related but do you have any favorite shows or movies?? i need recs

YESSS OKOK

Keep in mind my taste is my taste and you may not like them so 🤷‍♂️

Shows:

The Good Place, Bojack Horseman, Community, House MD, Big Mouth, Gilmore Girls, 911, Shameless, Heartstopper

Movies:

(Warning, a lot of variety here lol) Juno, I Saw The TV Glow, Ratatouille, Pearl, Rocky Horror, Heathers, Saltburn, The Goldfinch, Teen Beach Movie, Big Hero 6, The Lorax, Mary and Max, Saw, Sharkboy and Lavagirl

If you watch any of these please get back to me with your thoughts!!

[jacscorner]

The Reboot of Sharkboy & Lavagirl

So, who here remembers The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl?

...Yeah, I figured there'd be a lot of people. This movie came on almost every other week on Disney Channel some moons ago.

I loved the movie as a kid. While it hasn't aged the best, it still holds a very special place in my cold heart. One thing always lingered in the back of my mind: why isn't this a cartoon? Biased on my half, but I feel animation is better for trying to show an alien world, completely unlike anything we have on Earth. Because live action movies like this, as impressive as they may, will always be limited by budget and the effects of today - or, in this case, yesteryear. And if they're bad, they can really ruin the immersion. SB&LG are no different from this; as impressive as they were for the time, it was purely for the innate spectacle and not necessarily because they were good.

But, this movie still has a place in my heart, so let's push those critical thoughts aside. Cause i really wanna get into my thoughts on a Sharkboy and Lavagirl reboot.

SB & LG Designs

Since these are supposed to be characters dreamed up by a kid, I intentionally made their designs simplified. Cause while I can draw their suits NOW, I certainly couldn't when I was a kid watching that movie. Which, like, I hate how superheroes when made in live action have the most over the top and complicated uniforms to draw. It's such a high bar for fanart and it makes them un-fun to draw. If Japanese shows can make cool heroes that are manageable to draw, then so should we in the west!

For Sharkboy, I gave a wet suit and some clothes on top, to sort of give a pulp-y feel to his suit. I also gave him a pair of oxygen tanks; since Sharkboy apparently can't breathe underwater, but hold his breath for a long time, I thought it'd make sense for him to have something for those deep DEEP dives, or maybe he could give them to someone drowning who'd need it more.

Meanwhile, I wanted Lavagirl to look more like a classic superhero in terms of design. I do regret a little bit not making her suit more pink and instead red, but I don't hate it. I never like it when elemental heroes have suits that's just their element slapped onto them. Makes me feel it's just their body, and that's a strange school of thought to have.

How The Reboot Would Work

I'd imagine this show would be the 22-24 minute format. The show would begin with a segment of Max in the real world. We'd have a short scene that shows Max in live action and something, good or bad, happen to him. Then, the camera would fall onto Max's dream journal, with the book flipping open and pages furling. We then transition to Planet Drool, with the episode title flashing on screen and the cartoon segment takes over.

I think this would better show the distinction between the real world, Max's world, and the dream world - specifically, Planet Drool. Since Max is basically the God of this world, his emotional state and feelings effect Planet Drool. When he's sad, it's cloud and gloomy. When happy, the birds are singing and flowers are blooming.

Naturally, the various friends and allies Sharkboy & Lavagirl run into on Planet Drool are inspired by the people Max meets. Bullies and jerks in the real world play the role of villains on Planet Drool and their punishments in the real world and comeuppance in the dream world correlate. On the reverse, Max's friends are allies for Sharkboy & Lavagirl, and brief flashes of Max maintaining or straining their friendship will reflect on SB & LG and their relationships.

For example: an episode could start with Max in bed; he's got a Summer Cold and is sick. His mother brought him a bowl of sick and told him to stay in bed and rest, and to remember to take his medicine. She then leaves the room as Max just lies down in bed. 

And then the dream journal flips open and the pages furl and we zoom in on Planet Zoom and it's a frozen wasteland. Blizzards are blowing, the waters are freezing. Even Lavagirl is shivering as she sits on the beach, waiting for Sharkboy, who breaks out of the ice. It's too cold for even his shark friends to come out and they think they need to do something to warm the planet before another ice age hits them.

Probably needs a few drafts, but you get the point.

Sharkboy - Deep Sea Mystery

Sharkboy, real name Finn Mako (cause this is Sharkboy and Lavagirl, subtlety does not exist) was found in a small cave along the coast of Sharktooth Bay. He was found at around age 5 by Dr. Marlon Mako; clearly human, but obviously mutated, with shark-like teeth, sharpened claws, pointed ears, and superhuman senses - not to mention that he saw the boy talking to the Sharks that inhabited the cave. Dr. Mako adopted the boy and built his lab in that cave, where he studies marine life and also builds various technologies for the benefits of Planet Drool. Sharkboy grew up with his new adopted father, never too far from his shark friends. Dr. Mako still doesn't fully understand why Sharkboy mutated like this and is searching for the origin of his odd superhuman abilities and where he came from. Sharkboy does not care; he's happy to have his father, and his Shark Friends.

Sharkboy mostly has all the same abilities he had in the original movie; enhanced physical capabilities, underwater adaptability - for the most part, shark-like teeth, and a super capable swimmer. Sharkboy is also super smart and supplies the team with the various tech and gadgets they use throughout the show - all usually shark themed, cause of course they are. Of course, just because he's smart doesn't mean he's passive or a thinker. His first solution is still primarily to smash it - he's a cocky hothead. It was his father's idea for him to carry that oxygen tank in case of emergencies and if not for the fact he loves his dad and doesn't want him to worry, he'd never bring it with him.

And just like in the movie, Sharkboy can be overstimulated and go into a frenzy where he's stronger, faster, but more feral and less cognitive. This can be good AND bad since he's rarely in control of himself. Sharkboy also has a strong distaste for most human food - whether he can or can't eat it, I don't know, but but he at the very least won't eat most sweets willingly.

Lavagirl - Princess of Heat

Lavagirl, real name Pyrrha Redsword is the daughter of the Lava Lord, Ignis Redsword. Lavagirl hails from the largest volcano on Planet Drool, found at the equator of the planet: Mt. Habanero. We'll get into it later, but yes, Lavagirl is the youngest daughter of this Lave Lord, who controls the thermal heating of Planet Drool. A sheltered princess most her life, Lavagirl grew up listening to stories of Planet Drool's heroes. But that many of them were gone now, apparently having been lost after a 'Great War' - which, in the real world, would be Max losing his grandfather, who would be introduced into the story and would have been the one helping him build Tobor (wink wink).

Inspired by these stories, Lavagirl would make her own suit and decide to become a superhero and would leave her volcano home in search of adventure. She's eager to be a superhero and tries to do things 'by the book' and try to do her best to help people. She holds the majority of the team's emotional intelligence, being more socially capable than Sharkboy - though sometimes, a bit too formal. And at times, maybe a little too naive, as her eagerness to help and her lack of experience with people leads to her being taken advantage of.

Like Sharkboy, Lavagirl's powers are the same as they were in the movie. She can manipulate lava and magma, spew it from her hands, and her hair can light up in flames. She can also melt into lava and reform at will. These are all natural abilities of the inhabitants of her volcano home; in this reboot, Lavagirl knows exactly what she is: a Geofolk, or Geoperson. They all can live in extreme heat and have naturally hot to the touch bodies, as well as hair that can light up with fire as a tie to her emotions. They can eat lava rocks, but they can also eat normal food without issue. Lavagirl has older siblings in this reboot; two older sisters and an older brother, though they're not important right now...

Planet Drool

Planet Drool is a reflection of Earth through the warped and twisted lens of a child - one who has a love of superheroes, robots, and escapes to his fantasies while his planets are having marriage problems and he has to deal with homework, bullies, and the world being big and scary. The two planets, Drool and Earth, have no relation to each other outside of Max; SB & LG do not know of Max's existence, though Max is referenced in a religious sense, as a 'Dreamer'; someone with the power to make thoughts into matter, who can create anything, but also destroy it in an instant. Anyone on Earth can be a Dreamer - in fact, maybe we'll explore the 'Dreams' of others, as they may influence Planet Drool.

For now, though, let's focus.

The natural world of Planet Drool is ruled by a respective Elemental Lord - a King, Queen, or something. Lavagirl's father is the Lava Lord and control's the planet's natural heating. The Ice Princess - yes, she is in this reboot - controls the cooling of the planet and is acting in palce of her missing father, the Ice King. Mr. Electric is the (former) planetary electrician, so on and so forth.

Planet Drool once had lots of heroes acting as its guardian, but after The Great War, many of them had either perished or retired. One of them, the Mighty Tobor, is left as a rusting giant robot in the Dream Graveyard, where all of Max's discarded dreams end up - in context of Planet Drool, it's a massive junkyard of broken machines or magical artifacts that don't work. There, Tobor lies, still technically functional, but seemingly beyond repair, a relic of the Era of Heroes that protected Planet Drool and acts as SB & LG's mentor.

As a planet made up of the dreams of a kid, Planet Drool has various locations that don't make sense. The Land of Milk & Cookies, where deserts are made to appease giants, swamps where the sun never seem to shine and is home to frog-like dragons, desert landscapes where the sand is like water and you need to sail it by ship; the planet's landscape is in constant flux. It twists and turns at the discretion of the planet's Dreamer (AKA, Max and his slowly growing collection of friends). The most important thing about Planet Drool is that it's a mismatch of different ideas that might not really work or go together, but that's kind of the point. Cause it's a dream and dreams don't always make sense.