![]() Apart from some genuinely fun bits like the shrimp scene, it’s mostly a bunch of unnecessary gross out gags. Ending in another big Shrek or Shrek 2 style party complete with a hip hop version of “Car Wash” sung by fish Missy Elliot and jellyfish Christina Aguilera. Until the mob catches up to them and the lie comes out. When Frankie is killed by an anchor, Oscar takes credit as the “Sharkslayer.” Turning him into a rich somebody, but when Lenny swims back into his life, they become unlikely friends and keep the lie going. He also dresses like a dolphin later on if it wasn’t obvious. Pre-Po Jack Black voices gay metaphor Lenny who just wants to be a vegetarian. The plot kicks in when Oscar’s story intersects with Don Lino’s sons Frankie and the far less fearsome Lenny. Which attracts the attention of Angelina Jolie as sexy lionfish gold digger Lola. Oscar’s biggest problem is getting in deep with loan sharks and having to pay back his boss at the seahorse track. Robert De Niro is shark Don Lino and Martin Scorsese himself voices Oscar’s pufferfish boss Sykes. Despite being a kids movie, several gangster movie/TV heavyweights lend their voice to shark mob families. Most fish give Oscar a hard time including his boss’ right hands Ernie and Bernie the Jamaican jellyfish. ![]() The typical nice girl coworker secretly in love with the lead. Renée Zellweger brings her usual best to angelfish Angie. He uses get rich quick schemes in an effort to reach the top of the reef. Oscar is a lowly tongue scrubber at the local Whale Wash. Complete with fish themed real world advertisements. Shark Tale is at least 60% fish puns (Katie Current for example). Smith does his thing, but I’m sure he’s just as embarrassed as most of the other celebrities in the movie. He bares an uncomfortable resemblance to his bluestreak cleaner wrasse character Oscar. I wasn’t even into hip hop at the time, so my main draw was Will Smith. Even though it took me several years to fully understand the bizarre amount of mob movie references. So it was still a prominent edition in my DVD collection. Not enough to think it deserved a Best Animated Feature nomination (it was a slow year), but I was 9 when my dad took my brother and I to see it. I know it’s technically bad, but I still really enjoy Shark Tale even now. Think “gangster” meets “gangsta” with anthropomorphic humanoid fish people. It has a serious identity crisis that mixes everything that worked for Shrek with serious adult themes, a celebrity cast, and lowest common denominator pop culture references. Shark Tale is objectively the worst DreamWorks animated movie ever made. ![]() It only came out a year after Finding Nemo, but it’s obvious which one is better. But it's not a very good plan, as Lenny and Oscar soon find out.Shark Tale is the movie equivalent of “Sleeping with the fishes.” Next to Antz, the second most obvious DreamWorks Animation copycat movie is definitely Shark Tale. They decide stage a fight in which Oscar will pretend to kill Lenny, then the sharks will be too scared to come after Oscar, and Lenny can start a new life. Meanwhile, shark Lenny (voice of Jack Black) runs away from home because he can't be a predator like his pop (voice of Robert De Niro) and the other sharks. Doug and Ziggy Marley) take Oscar out to rough him up, but a mix-up occurs in which Sykes' henchmen believe that Oscar has killed a shark, and the little fish returns home to be the celebrated as "the Shark Slayer." Oscar enjoys the high life until the sharks come searching for him. Sykes' Rasta-jellyfish henchmen (voices of Doug E. When his blowfish boss, Sykes (voice of Martin Scorsese), says he needs the $5,000 Oscar owes him, pretty receptionist Angie (voice of Renee Zellweger) gives him her family heirloom pearl, which Oscar sells, but then loses the money gambling. Oscar (voice of Will Smith) is a little fish who dreams of fame and fortune. ![]()
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