It took me a few days to get ahold of a copy -- but I did, and I've seen it now!

The story is pretty weak, and there's some leaps that made me go "wait... what?" a few times while watching. e.g. How did Hubie even end up on the ship? Why are he and Rocko then tangled up on the beach? It feels like I missed a scene or two that should've been there but weren't. There's also some visually jarring cuts where the colors are really noticably inconsistent. I wonder if some of those oddities are from the supposed executive meddling... 🤔️

On the plus side, there are some rather interesting color choices in some scenes, and I can probably learn a lot from studying them. I liked the dramatic red sky and black sea with purple during the killer whale chase scene, for example: