Shark Tale
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List Price: $9.99
Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• NTSC
In Theaters : 01 October, 2004
Video Release : 08 February, 2005 |
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Shark Tale Customer Reviews
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This fish ain't so fresh
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What do you get if you mix "Love Story" with "The Godfather" and "The Good Earth" and "Little Mermaid" and "Boys in the 'Hood"? You get this amusing, colorful, predictable movie called "Shark Tale."
Oscar (Will Smith) is an ordinary fish who works at the whale wash, but dreams of being rich and famous. Angie (Rene Zellweger) is his best friend and co-worker, and Oscar is too caught up in becoming a somebody that he does see how great Angie would be as his girlfriend.
Then, life changes for Oscar, as he is chased by two sharks, Lenny (Jack Black) and Frankie (Michael Imperioli). You see, Frankie and Lenny are the sons of the Big Boss shark, Don Lino (Robert DeNiro), but Lenny is basically a nice guy/pacifist/vegetarian, and that just doesn't fit with being Don Lino's son. Frankie tries to provoke Lenny into breaking his vegetarianism by eating Oscar, and thereby becoming worthy of Don Lino's love. Except, Frankie runs head-first into an anchor and is killed, and Oscar gets credit for killing him. Oscar the Shark Slayer becomes rich and famous, but it's all built on a lie. Don Lino sends his henchmen after the Shark Slayer, and Oscar has to figure out whether he should come clean, and give up his newfound fame, in order to survive. Or, can he and Lenny cook up a scheme, wherein Oscar can live and keep his wealth, while Lenny can escape the mob world of his father?
This movie is incredibly colorful, and sometimes is a bit too much so. There is lots of catchy music, though, and the animation is great. I do notice, from the other reviews, that I am not alone in finding Oscar to be a bit creepy in how human his fish-face looks. There is a lot of good voicework and cameos here, including Katie Couric and Katie Current, an annoying intrusive reporter; Peter Falk as Don Lino's junior associate Don Feinberg; Martin Scorsese as Sykes, Oscar's boss; Ziggy Marley and Doug E. Doug as Ernie and Bernie, two Jamaican octopi.
But, with all the overtones of gangsters and Mafia and hits, is this really a kid's movie? And, it's not really a movie made for adults. I think that, in their attempt to please every age range, as they did in "Shrek," the producers ended up pleasing no one very well. It's not a bad movie, and it is interesting to watch, but it's an odd mixture of too dark (concept-wise) and too predictable. If you don't take it too seriously, it can be fun to watch, but probably just once. Young teens are probably going to like this movie the most. |
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