Volcano girls, we really can't be beat

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH

2025

Directed by James Cameron

Written by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and James Cameron

Spoilers: high

Cardboard Science: Phantom marine mutations, death rays, utter nonsense

THE PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES

1955

Directed by Dan Milner

Written by Dorys Lukather and Lou Russof

Spoilers: moderate

Fierce creatures

DANGEROUS ANIMALS

2025

Directed by Sean Byrne

Written by Nick Lepard

Spoilers: moderate

00 Week: Planes with atom bombs don't get stolen in real life. Except that they do. You're slowing down, James... Don't give me that crap about real life. There ain't no such animal.

THUNDERBALL

1965

Directed by Terence Young

Written by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, Ian Fleming, Richard Maibaum, and John Hopkins

Spoilers: severe

Cardboard Science: You're a lovely girl, but lovely girls just don't run around worrying about non-existent sea monsters

MONSTER FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR

1954

Directed by Wyott Ordung

Written by Roger Corman and Bill Danch

Spoilers: moderate

Walt Disney, part LVIII: Why Kida can't read—and what you can do about it

ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE

2001

Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise

Written by Joss Whedon, Bryce Zabel, Jackie Zabel, Tab Murphy, Gary Trousdale, and Kirk Wise

Spoilers: high

Come on in! The show's fine

BATHING BEAUTY

1944

Directed by George Sidney

Written by Joseph Schrank, Kenneth Earl, M.M. Musselman, Curtis Kenyon, Allen Boretz, Frank Waldman, and Dorothy Kingsley

Spoilers: moderate

When the oceans drank Atlantis

AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM

2023

Directed by James Wan

Written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, Thomas Pa'a Sibbett, Jason Momoa, and James Wan

Spoilers: moderate

Digitally release the kraken

RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN

2023

Directed by Kirk DiMicco (co-directed by Faryn Pearl)

Written by Pam Brady, Brian C. Brown, and Elliott Giuseppe

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: The waves have now a redder glow—the hours are breathing faint and low

WAR-GODS OF THE DEEP

1965

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

Written by Charles Bennett, Louis M. Heyward, and David Whitaker

Spoilers: moderate

How to train your leviathan

THE SEA BEAST

2022

Directed by Chris Williams

Written by Nell Benjamin and Chris Williams

Spoilers: moderate (high, technically, but anybody over twelve is getting ahead of this film by the time they've seen the trailer for it)

The most dangerous thing about Pandora is that you might grow to love her too much

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

2022

Directed by James Cameron

Written by Josh Friedman, Shane Salerno, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and James Cameron

Spoilers: high

Namor, Namór, let's call the whole thing off

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER

2022

Directed by Ryan Coogler

Written by Joe Robert Cole and Ryan Coogler

Spoilers: high

What a disaster: The pirates of Byzance

RAISE THE TITANIC

1980

Directed by Jerry Jameson

Written by Adam Kennedy, Eric Hughes, and many others (based on the novel by Clive Cussler)

Spoilers: moderate (high if you don't read film's titles before you watch them)

What a disaster: God and General Dynamics

GRAY LADY DOWN

1978

Directed by David Greene

Written by Frank P. Rosenberg, James Whittaker, and Howard Sackler (based on the novel by David Lavallee)

Spoiler alert: moderate

What a disaster: In the event of a water landing

AIRPORT '77

1977

Directed by Jerry Jameson

Written by H.A.L. Craig, Charles Keunstle, Michael Scheff, and David Spector

Spoiler alert: moderate

The shadow over Portorosso

LUCA

2021

Directed by Enrico Casarosa

Written by Jesse Andrews, Mike Jones, Simon Stephenson, and Enrico Casarosa

Spoiler alert: moderate

Walt Disney, part XXXVIII: What's a fire, and why does it—what's the word—burn?

THE LITTLE MERMAID

1989

Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker

Written by Ron Clements, John Musker, and Howard Ashman (based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen)

Spoiler alert: well, she doesn't become a freaking air spirit

Hannibal ante portas

JUPITER'S DARLING

1955

Directed by George Sidney

Written by Dorothy Kingsley (based on the play The Road to Rome by Robert Sherwood)

Spoiler alert: unless you're somehow surprised to learn that Rome won the Second Punic War, actually quite mild

What a disaster: There's got to be a morning after

THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

1972

Directed by Ronald Neame

Written by Stirling Silliphant and Wendell Mayes (based on the novel by Paul Gallico)

Spoiler alert: a little bit more than moderate, a little bit less than high