“Scales: Mermaids Are Real” (*1/2 out of four) was a saccharine, silly story for young girls about a 12-year old (Emmy Perry) who finds out she is a mermaid and has to re-adjust to her new identity with her mom and then subsequently finds that there are a group of hunters in the town who hunt mermaids and want to kill her! Almost laughable at times, with a climax on the beach between the hunters and the mermaids that almost has to be seen to be believed. Strictly for undemanding young teenagers or those who couldn’t get enough of the Cher/Winona Ryder 1990 comedy “Mermaids.”