Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (2005) on Netflix

PG20051h 35mAdventure Family Fantasy

Sean Cambell, an oil company troubleshooter, is sent to a remote Canadian lake to find a lost drill. He cancels his son Mac's Walt Disney World trip and takes the boy along.

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A drill bound for Arctic oil work falls into a Canadian lake during a flight, and Sean Cambell is sent from New York to find it. The job means canceling the Walt Disney World trip he had planned with his son Mac, who comes along instead. In Canada, a local man named Custer helps with the search, and a submarine trip reveals deep channels under the lake that local legend links to the sea. Mac goes with Custer's daughter Pawnee to a cave where "Crazy" Norma feeds the creature known as Mee-Shee, and there he meets it. Mrs. Coogan, whose house the two are staying in, warns that Mee-Shee would be in danger if the outside world learned of it. Snead and Watkins, who work for a competing oil company, are after the same drill.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (2005)

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Penticton chief Stewart Phillip asked that the names "Ogopogo" and "Okanagan" not be used, calling the exploitation of spiritual entities an international indigenous concern, so screenwriter Barry Authors renamed the creature "Mee-Shee".
Whoopi Goldberg was set to play a Native Canadian, but when the shoot moved from Canada to New Zealand over fears of a Manitoba winter, she was unwilling to travel there and left the project.
The water creature was built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop from a mixture of CGI and puppetry, and was modeled after the late American actor Walter Matthau.
Screenwriter Barry Authors' son Jeff, who had worked on the White Fang TV show, suggested shooting in New Zealand because its remote lakes could double for Canada.
The film's lake monster comes from the Ogopogo folklore of Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, which Aboriginal peoples called Niataka or N'ha-aitk before a board of trade invented the name "Ogopogo" in 1926.