Shark Tale [DVD]

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This shift was reportedly made to avoid competition with Pixar's The Incredibles, which was released on the same weekend. In the Southside Reef, a lonely Bluestreak cleaner wrasse named Oscar, who, in his childhood, dreamed to be a tongue-scrubber at the Whale Wash, like his late father Earl until his classmates cruelly made fun of him for it, fantasizes about being rich and famous, but owes money to his boss and the Whale Wash's owner, a pufferfish named Sykes. Even though Oscar desires to please everyone, he soon discovers that he pleases no one; his paramour Angie is heartbroken because Oscar is no longer honest, while her hedonistic rival Lola repeatedly reminds Oscar that he has her only as long as he's famous. The next day, Oscar and Lenny stage a battle involving Oscar "fighting" off Lenny, thus cementing Oscar's popularity and making the sharks believe that Lenny has been killed too, infuriating Lino.

It is paired with Shrek 2, Balto III: Wings of Change, and The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses.After explaining this to his best friend Angie ( Renée Zellweger), she offers him a chance to pay back the money by pawning a pink pearl that was a gift from her grandmother. However, Richard Roeper commented that although the film wasn't on the same level as Finding Nemo, it was definitely a film worth seeing.

Lino reconciles with Lenny and accepts him, and states that he and his gang bear the city no ill will. Shark Tale was criticized for perpetuating negative stereotypes of Italian-Americans in its antagonists. The studio that previously animated DreamWorks Animation's hand drawn animated films The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. citation needed] Release [ edit ] The Piazza San Marco in Venice a day before the film's world premiere, where it was projected on the world's largest inflatable movie screen.As no one saw the deed done and Oscar was seen near the body, everyone thinks he did it, and Oscar sees this as the chance to both redeem himself and receive his fame. The film features an ensemble cast that includes the voices of Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, and Martin Scorsese. Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, a family of criminally-inclined sharks has a problem with one of their sons named Lenny ( Jack Black).

This is the first DreamWorks Animation film not to feature any humans, (not counting Antz in which humans are only seen briefly). He then strongly urges Lino not to prejudge people before he knows them properly and to not make the mistake he made in prejudging his wealth, so Lino and Lenny reconcile. Such a million dollar bet is noticed nearby by a beautiful dragonfish named Lola ( Angelina Jolie), who flagrantly flirts with Oscar until quickly discovering the truth. They arrive at the meeting to find Lola next to Lino while Angie is bound and gagged with duct tape and presented to Lino on a plate, who prepares to eat her if Oscar doesn't comply. While the two shock a tied-up Oscar, Frankie sees them and urges Lenny to eat Oscar, but Lenny instead frees Oscar and tells him to escape.More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. He also opined that younger viewers would have trouble enjoying a film about adult characters with adult problems, such as an elaborate love triangle and a main character wanting to clear his debt with loan sharks, and compared it to more successful fish-focused animated features like Pixar Animation Studios' Finding Nemo, which Ebert felt featured a simpler plot that audiences could more easily identify with.

The film was projected on the largest inflatable screen in the world, measuring more than six stories tall and over 3,900 square feet (360m 2). It was also compared to previous "Finding Nemo" and people said that Dreamworks ripped off the aforementioned Pixar film with bad pop culture jokes. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles. John Mancini, the founder of the Italic Institute of America, protested Shark Tale for perpetuating negative stereotypes of Italian-Americans in its antagonists.