splash be a really well make hollywood fantasy comedy and with early tom hank already develop into the charismatic everyman and darryl hannah and john candy at their best . but under the comedy and sweetness i have always think there be a disturb undertone of extreme pessimism just what kind of ugly and cruel society do we live in and in which the mermaid madison only prospect be that she will be torture and from which hank character ultimately have to flee and never to see his beloved brother again . ( the same dark undertone be even more pronounced and i think and in ron howard next big hit cocoon and where the old folk willingly escape an earth and family that do not seem to offer them anything anymore . ) .