With lyrics like "Wow wow wow wow, yoo-hoo-hoo" and "Good, good, good, good, good to see you," only a moron would expect Pinkfong & Baby Shark's Space Adventure to deliver a deeply considered story. What Byeon Hee-sun's animated feature is concerned with instead is keeping ADHD kids happily occupied with hyper-peppy tunes accompanied by cheerily kooky visuals. Pinkfong and best friend Baby Shark may ostensibly be pursuing fragments of a star decal that fell of their flying saucer (and landed on themepark planets Dino, Spooky, Jungle, 8-Bit, and Ocean) but what they're more worried about ia keeping your eyes and ears from mstraying from their supersaturated environs. Animals and creatures will dance for the slightest reason! Keep watching, keep singing along!
As for the catchy recurring tune "Baby Shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo" — which has equally inane verses for every member of the shark family: Baby, Mommy, Daddy, Grandma, and Grandpa — that song culminates unexpectedly with fearful fishes fleeing to the lyric "Run away doo doo doo doo doo doo." So while other melodies forgettably reword kiddie standards like "I'm a Little Teapot," "Old McDonald Had a Farm," "London Bridge Is Falling," and "La Cucharacha," this main theme has a dark undercurrent. A shark quipping "I think all of this polution is making me miserable" also has its shadowy side. Is the medium the message?
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