Disappointed when:
- Barnacles have claustrophobia out of nowhere. If you watched the original episodes, Barnacles have been in tight spaces situations a lot and shows no sign of claustrophobia.
- Just by falling into a hole doesn't make you claustrophobic.
- Barnacles and Peso can only wait for Dashi and Kwazzi to rescue them.
- No heroic climatic action for Barnacles.
- Fee like an excuse for new GUPs to appear, which I can't even remember since it's so insignificant. What's the GUPs for, really? Toys?
- Barnacles was way too timid in this movie.
- Barnacles and Peso was way too risky to swim in a rocky underwater caves (Sac Actun) without proper equipment without properly contacting the Octonauts back in the base (They could really wait or swim back to base). Which is suicidal. Not a good move for two experienced divers.
- Underwater scenes (not counted in the caves) look worse in this movie. I understand the movies was done by a different studio, but be better.
- The pace was slow, and feel like its a short piece of script, but being dragged out to match the time enough for a movie.
In the end, I was really disappointed. Be better, pretend this movie doesn't exist and watch The Rings of Fire, which is the only movie worth watching among three of them.