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Clumsily underrated
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This animated story is set down in the body of water with the main characters as fish and mollusks. The story is nearly a unsatisfied tongue scrubber, Oscar, who works at the whale wash, owned by a blowfish, Mr Sykes, who has continued deals with local mob boss Don Lino. Both of them are literally in deep with the sharks. Oscar owes a huge and overdue debt to them, and his co-worker Angie, secretly in love with him, offers him the money to cover it, just he blows it all on a seahorse. Meanwhile, Don Lino is concerned nigh the paradigm of his son, Lenny, who refuses to eat meat. He sends his other son, Frankie, to teach him how to hunt. They spot Oscar being tortured by Sykes'southward jellyfish henchmen, Ernie and Bernie and Frankie sends Lenny afterward him to gobble him up, but he just can't bring himself to eat a fish. Enraged, Frankie speeds after Oscar and is stopped by an ballast that lands on him and fatally wounds him. Lenny, distraught with grief and guilt, swims abroad. Ernie and Bernie so find Oscar beside the dead shark and assume that he killed him. Oscar at present realizes he tin can take advantage of this and makes up a story that instantly brings him fame and fortune, and winning the heart of a beautiful only shallow king of beasts fish, Lola. However, Don Lino, angered over the loss of his son, vows to notice a manner to get to him and make him pay.
The message basically shows that Oscar, not knowing that Angie loves him, doesn't realize that he never needed to be at the top of the reef to feel good. Anyone who has good lives, making a good living and hanging out with friends, always want more than out of life, and just once they loose the practiced life they had before, do they realize it. I retrieve a lot of people tin relate to that. This film has the all-time bandage always. The fact that all these brilliant actors are together in one flick is what makes it worthwhile to watch. Robert De Niro, Volition Smith, Martin Scorsese, Angelina Jolie, Renée Zelweger and Jack Black. I loved this film so much that I became obsessed with all the actors who appeared in it. It introduced me to Mafia films, which of course contained some of the all-time in all of movie history. It too has an excellent soundtrack total of vivid music, which in my opinion, is a matter a great movie has to have.
Unfortunately, this picture has now become terribly underrated, so much that people don't even want to hear about it anymore, allow alone praise it. Afterwards Shrek, Dreamworks produced this smashing film, then a second Shrek (not as good as the commencement one, merely amend than the third) and Madagascar. The latter, though compared to Shark Tale, was a thwarting, it became 1 of the last terminal skillful movies that Dreamworks Animation released. They just seemed to have lost it now. Even the acclaimed How To Railroad train Your Dragon, which was much better than some of the previous Dreamwork films, lacks anything infrequent. Merely Kung Fu Panda and Megamind seems to capture the real essence of Shark Tale and the kickoff Shrek. They ever mention Shrek and Madagascar in their new films, but never Shark Tale, which is a existent shame. When you look information technology like that, there's really nothing bad about it. Information technology's a funny one-act that really lifts your spirits. Pixar often continues makes outstanding movies, but I'll always recollect this i equally the film that introduced me to the existent masterpieces of movie theater.
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Adults will similar this movie better than kids.
It could be just me but I thought that the humor in this picture was perfect. I laughed lot's of times throughout the movie and was very entertained by it. I nonetheless think that this movie will non be loved by young children, they simply will not be able to empathize most of the jokes and the picture also lacks some 'likeable Disney type of characters' for them.
I never was really interested to go and sentinel this picture show since information technology got lot's of bad reviews and I thought that the trailer looked horrible and very unfunny. I however decided to choice up this film nevertheless because I was interested in how the famous vocalism cast would pull off, Martin Scorsese in particular. I was pleasantly surprised when I watched the moving-picture show. the humor was spot on and I was entertained the whole time. I know lot's of people probably are going to detest me for this but I idea this movie was even better and more entertaining than any of the two Shrek movies.
The movie doesn't accept a whole lot of story and is pretty boilerplate in every way. I however feel that this is one of this movies were the story really is secondary. The moving-picture show has your average love story, in which Angelina Jolie'due south graphic symbol is really unnecessary and adds admittedly nothing, in my opinion only watching Robert De Niro's character scream and shout and giving orders to Martin Scorsese'due south grapheme on the other hand was admittedly priceless.
Will Smith was a smashing main grapheme and just as entertaining as Eddie Murphy in an animated movie.
I predict that the music in this movie will be absolutely hated in 20 years by now, merely as much as I hate 'fourscore'south music in movies now. No, I really didn't liked the songs in this motion picture mainly because in dissimilar the Shrek movies, they aren't any evergreens.
If you plan to purchase this pic for your kids, call back twice, you lot're probably improve of watching "Finding Nemo" with them. If you're a adult or immature adult that likes animated movies, this flick might be worth your time and money, although the humour in this movie is really a matter of taste.
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Nice to look at, only I accept seen superior animated films...
I did like Shark Tale, but there is a lot wrong with it. I did think the animation was very nicely done, and I liked the references to Jaws and Godfather. But I do think that Finding Nemo was much better than this. Shark Tale could have been a swell film, had information technology non been devoid of sense of humor and heart. My first trouble with the film was Will Smith. He tries to be funny, but as the motion-picture show progresses, he gets wearisome, and at times you feel like y'all desire to attain into the screen and put a hand over his mouth. There were times when the script was funny, and there were some nice ideas, but the pace of the whole film was uneven. The characters could accept been adult a lot more, particularly Lenny(a nice surprise from Jack Black), and whereas there were a number of nice visual jokes, in that location is some very over-familiar material in the script. Kids may find the sharks a bit frightening, and adults won't observe much to relish, with the exception of the talented phonation cast, such equally Angelina Jolie, whose Lola(a very beautiful fish) was one of the improve characters, Rennee Zellwegger, who deserved better than she was given and Robert DeNiro, whose shark was just a caricature of the Godfather. Though it is Martin Scorsesse who gives the near entertaining song contribution. And I did like the music score. All in all, information technology is overnice to look at, only there are some parts of the film that aren't as interesting as intended. I did like the picture, only I was kind of confused at who it was aimed at. vi/10 Bethany Cox.
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Mildly amusing, but no bite.
wxid 21 September 2004
Shark Tale is doubtlessly going to be incessantly compared to Pixar'due south "Finding Nemo". It is unfortunate that Shark Tale comes out the lesser of the two movies, but truly comparing the two is generally a fruitless exercise.
Opening with a detailed swoop into the urban center of the fish Shark Tale presents a world of sight gags and moderate puns. From the star fish walk of fame through the dolphin police force, through to the shots of "the top of the reef", the sequence is a bustling hive of activity. At this point I would make one valid comparison with Nemo - the graphics. Shark Tale fails to actually seem as if annihilation is happening underwater. Yes, there are fish in the shot and yes everything intellectually should be under the sea, but where Nemo oozed and flowed in a very fluid vista Shark Tale shows colour and spectacle, simply without that organic ocean feeling. This is not to say Shark Tale's graphic piece of work is bad, simply that it does non feel waterborne.
With that aside, the cartoon images in Shark Tale are well presented, with the anthropomorphic fish taking on the facial characteristics of their voice actors. Never has (or will) a fish ever look more like Wil Smith , or acted like him. This is Wil Smith in full Fresh Prince wise-cracking mode made piscine in Oscar. Renee Zellwegger is instantly recognisable in her fish counterpart Angie, as is the vampy Angela Jolie (Lola).
The story itself revolves around Oscar'southward passage from an unhappy, dreaming, nobody to a famous, unhappy, somebody to a happy nobody. It's a generic, frequently-repeated tale, albeit set in a world full of mafioso sharks, vengeful shrimp, and whales with poor personal hygiene.
As such, the story itself is both predictable and can be safely ignored. You can feel each step of the way long earlier it hits the screen. It has no surprises, and and then the moving-picture show resorts to barrack and set pieces to amuse.
It doesn't often succeed with these. Of the set pieces the shark funeral is by far the best part of the movie. It is hilarious and somehow moving at the same time. Lenny (Jack Blackness) and Don Lino (Robert De Niro) make an amusing scene in a eatery debating with the food. The remainder, including Oscar'southward big fight scene, are more often than not uninvolving unless you have an interest in keeping an ear and middle out for the multitude of pop references - many of which are simply thrown in for no reason other than that somebody thought they should exist there. Oscar's non sequiturs at the end of the great shark fight are particularly pointless and unfunny.
Some in jokes and references do work - having Ziggy Marley solemnly tell Oscar (Smith) that he's singing reggae wrong is clever. Some gags also work - the pizza ordering Octopus is a gem.
Simply despite playing heavily on racial stereotypes the picture show as a whole feels rather banal - as if it was designed past marketers and a committee rather than past people who had a funny tale they wanted to tell.
The actors supplying the voices vary in effectiveness. Wil Smith is effectively Wil Smith, love it or detest information technology. Zellwegger gives a decent, if shallow, performance equally the love interest, and Jolie'south Lola is barely on screen long enough for her to make an bear on. De Niro makes the movie every bit Don Lino, shark godfather, and without his presence it would be off-white to say that the pic would simply be besides weak to sustain interest.
The music is very MTV, and the end vocal sequence is atrocious - though kids will probably dearest it, parents should bring ear plugs for the fourth dimension when Oscar releases "Missy and Christina" until you leave the cinema.
Shark Tale offers an amusing 60 minutes and a half for the children but a rather predictable and just occasionally amusing time for adults. It lacks the magic, sparkle, and dare I say bite, that was so desperately needed.
Six starfish out of a possible 10.
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Not as well bad, just not too good either.
Round two of the Pixar/Dreamworks cull-a-theme competition scores once again for Pixar.
Remember when a few years ago there were ii blithe ant movies to choose from? I call back they even came at the same time in the theaters in my country. I was AntZ, the other was A Bug'south Life. The first one was rumoured to be more suited to adults, the other a kiddie flick. While that statement had some merit, at the terminate it turned out that A Bug'south Life was a far better moving-picture show amusement-wise, despite cuter characters and simpler story and all that kiddie-like appearance. AntZ were just plain irksome.
Pixar seems to like choosing a uncomplicated story, one that a kid can understand, and than building upon it creating a wonderful movie for all ages. Dreamworks builds his scripts on pop-civilisation references and more than adult themes, and while it works sometimes (Shrek was fantastic), at other times it just falls flat.
Some say it's unfair to compare Finding Nemo and Shark Tale, them being totally different movies with the only matching characteristic being antropomorphic fish, but it seems that the comparison is inevitable. It'southward the ants thing all over over again. Finding Nemo was merely wonderful, peachy movie with a perfect sense of sense of humor and memorable characters. Certain, they were cute and cuddly, but they had a soul.
Shark Tale, again, tries to appeal to the adults, but this fourth dimension the results are fifty-fifty worse. The characters are not and so important as the cast is, even so much that we are being sledgehammered on the head in who'south playing who. A word to the wise - I don't care how big the names doing the voicework are, I want to immerse in the movie'south story. When I saw Shrek, I didn't come across Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy in that location, I saw Shrek and Donkey. Here I run across De Niro, Smith, Scorsese and so on. At ane point I fifty-fifty caught myself wondering why the other fish keep calling Will Smith "Oscar".
Every bit for the story, information technology kind of drags along. I couldn't actually understand with the atomic number 82 character - he is at the same time stupid and then full of himself that I didn't intendance nearly his motivations or the messes he got himself into. Also, somehow the story didn't map so well in the underwater world. What is the Shark mafia exactly ? Are they supposed to be predators or criminals? Basically the mafia matter is here only to serve equally a playground for mob-film references, but it serves no purpose story-wise. Likewise, the entire world seems very unbelievable. Flahing electrical neon signs? Fire hydrants? It actually backfires, since instead of getting a boot out of fishes living similar humans, more often than not you feel similar you're watching an alien moving picture, with the aliens resembling our world's fishes in some means.
All in all, I did bask the picture show, just only in the sense that I didn't feel cheated out of my coin. A couple of the jokes worked, some pop-culture references were funny, the movie was not as well wearisome. But when I call back that after Nemo or Incredibles I was smiling fifty-fifty a few hours afterwards the movie, and then I see that Shark Tale ain't what it possibly could be. Information technology'south simply a popcorn picture, easily forgettable. And rightfully and then.
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Something was missing.
I can't explain why I didn't like Shark Tale too much. Visually at that place is a creative backdrop which is absolutely beautiful. I wonder if they just took pictures of New York, doused it underwater and worked around the scenery. Because with the exception of that imagery, Shark Tale has a very loud, very brash, in-your-face mentality that takes away from the picture. Other features like The Footling Mermaid and Finding Nemo invite you to the paradise of existence under the sea. Shark Tale throws you in the heart of the loudest order and tells you to become down on it. I don't buy information technology and with the exception of some visual gags, nobody else could neither. This is as well another picture where Will Smith tin can get back into his Fresh Prince gear and get away with information technology and Jack Black could play a gender confused shark and be accustomed for it as well. I wanted to enjoy the scenery and the sight of an underground New York. Shark Tale offered it simply instead beat usa airheaded with all the hoopla we see everyday on the boob tube set. What a disappointment. Enjoy the humor and expect zippo more.
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Those other reviews are balderdash; this movie is not bad!
I have to confess my stupor at seeing the v.9/10 average rating for this movie and overall mediocre reviews. This picture show is great! And I'k not a kid, either...I'm 26 years old and thoroughly enjoyed this film at the age of 25. The soundtrack is unbelievable and fits in seamlessly with the activity and one-act of the moving-picture show. You really have to hear Mary J. Blige'southward rendition of Cheryl Lynn'due south classic disco anthem, "Got to Be Existent." Anyway, also the fantastic soundtrack, every grapheme in this movie matches beautifully with his or her glory voice. I particularly enjoyed Will Smith's and Martin Scorcese's characters; brilliantly done. Really, if you're looking for a fun, enjoyable picture that you can laugh and even trip the light fantastic toe along to, this is the movie for yous. Young and quondam alike should enjoy this. I've seen it 3 times, and e'er have a good fourth dimension watching it. Watch it!
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"Shark Tale" is a "fishy" tale, all correct, but a worthwhile ane
I have to admit going into this review that I didn't at all have the slightest hopes of liking "Shark Tale." From the previews last fall, it reminded me a little too much of Pixar's "Finding Nemo." Not so, every bit I would later on discover out. "Shark Tale" draws much of its inspirations, every bit noted by critic Roger Ebert, from "Casablanca," "Jaws," and "The Godfather" - all movies that are considered to be modern American classics.
"Shark Tale" plays out like an amalgam of all three classic films, and has a plot that shares uncanny parallels to the electric current events debate about morality and homosexuality in America. The pic is set in and around a coral reef that is controlled by a "Godfather"-like mob family of great white sharks. Don Lino (Robert De Niro) is as ruthless as they come, and his two sons Frankie (Michael Imperioli) and Lenny (Jack Black) both have their eyes set on controlling the family and the reef when Lino retires.
The sharks, who run their business out of a spruced-up version of the sunken Titanic, have a reputation for routinely shaking down clients and otherwise being pretty difficult on the reef, just Lenny doesn't have that killer instinct in him - he's a vegetarian - and at dinner 1 dark, he sets a shrimp free. This comes equally a shock for Don Lino, as Lenny'south behavior suddenly becomes a huge embarrassment for him.
On the reef, a hustling fish named Oscar (Volition Smith) is aspiring to rise out of his lowly existence working at a whale launder. He's thought upwardly a number of schemes in the by that have all failed and his closest friend is his boss'southward secretarial assistant Angie (Renee Zellweger), who also has a shell on him.
Things go complicated for all the characters when Frankie is accidentally killed past a fisherman's anchor being dropped on his head while he was trying to convince Lenny to be a killer shark past feasting on Oscar, who'due south indebted to Don Lino for a failed horse-betting scheme. Oscar, who bore witness to the whole incident, seizes the opportunity and using his boss Sykes (Martin Scorsese) as a shameless fight promoter, becomes a hero effectually the reef equally a shark slayer, and Lenny is forced to go into hiding as a result.
"Shark Tale" is entertaining to say the least, with enough in-jokes and gags to certainly reel in unsuspecting viewers. Even though this is a children's film, in that location is a lot of thematic material that is simply also serious to not get at all unnoticed.
The blitheness is cute (though not as good equally anything done past Pixar in the final 10 years) and information technology actually gives the deep blueish that admirable quality. The vocalisation-interim is pretty impressive too, with all of the actors doing their best, including Angelina Jolie equally the gold-excavation Lola.
vii/10
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Have Animated Features Jumped the Shark?
"Shark Tale" is the latest blithe feature from DreamWorks, the same studio that gave us "Antz" and "Shrek." This new story can exist called a cross between "Finding Nemo" and "The Godfather." Information technology's no "Shrek," only it's all the same enjoyable. The voice talent was well cast, with Volition Smith as Oscar, the aggressive "small fish in a big pond" who finds himself an instant celebrity; Jack Black every bit Lenny, a peaceful vegetarian shark; Robert DeNiro as Don Lino, Lenny's father, the head of a shark mob, etc. The blitheness looks good, and a lot of movie references are clever. Sometimes, though, the producers of the movie seem to exist trying too hard. But even if it doesn't ever striking the mark, "Shark Tale" is worth a look.
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Predictable but funny and engaging blitheness for the family
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With an all star cast including Smith (bad boys) De Niro (Taxi Driver) Zellweger (Bridget Jones) and director Scoursese (Goodfellas) this 2004 was lined upward to be a smash and despite its criticism I enjoyed watching the amazing furnishings, cheesy jokes and acceptable plot.
The cast lend their voices to the spirited sea creatures. The beginning of the story is really amazing. A typical animation move, taking audiences around the scenery. With many jokes equally 'play on words' due east.g. Coral Cola the audience are awarded inexpensive laughs and wonder how the producers come with these ideas, its conventional but I believe its a technique that all audiences capeesh.
Its an inconsistent plot with many engaging scenes just many questionable scenes. Later on the starting time yous wondered is Smith'south absurd grapheme Oscar was beingness given too much photographic camera time. Once Zellweger's conventional boy-fish wanting fish came into the story did a sense of predictability ascend.
Yet its 1 of those films you know is awful but you enjoy it anyway. It is engaging because you wonder how the characters are going to fare with each other. The relationship between the under sea creatures is healthy and conceivable but always enjoyable to observe, despite maybe some people saying its predictable, clichéd etc.
It's a slow moving story with typical human like ideologies put forth past director Bergerson. Money, family loyalty, expose, friendship and trust are all encoded and so audition'southward can appreciate the film.
There are a few twists used, perhaps in the wrong manner just are withal interesting to detect. The ending is awful. Never in my life accept I seen a pic end so badly. I was shaking my head and couldn't believe it. The soundtrack to the film is astonishing. Upbeat energetic pop and reggae music are used for a variety of uses, mainly to encourage the scene to be enjoyable.
There is never doubting the effects which are stunning. If yous desire any proof so find De Niro'due south shark character which looks exactly like him.
a film for the whole family - not the all-time animation but nevertheless enjoyable for cheap laughs and funny characters
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Lifeless product of Hollywood groupthink, devoid of even the slightest inspiration
Had "Shark Tale" had even an iota of the wit and charm that seems to take trivial problem finding its style into Pixar's creations, the moving picture might accept been more enjoyable. At the least the filmmakers could have snuck in some funny social commentary through the veil of animation.
What we accept instead is an urban, glib, lifeless product that is marketplace-tested and ready for consumption. An empty ghetto-fabulous morality tale loaded with pop culture references and plenty of bling-bling simply no eye.
Under the ocean, Oscar (voice of Will Smith) is a tongue-scrubber at a "whale-wash" and part-time hustler. He wishes for a better life, hoping to swim his way to the top of the fish social ladder, though his coworker Angie (voice of Renee Zellweger) thinks he should be happy with who he is, and tries to subtly driblet hints that she'south quite taken with him.
Meanwhile, peachy white shark and local criminal offence boss Don Lino (vocalisation of Robert De Niro) is planning to turn his family concern over to his two sons, Frankie and Lenny. But Lenny (vocalization of Jack Black) is harboring some serious bug concerning eating other fish, and the godfather is worried his weak son with reflect poorly on him.
Oscar has issues. In debt to his boss Sykes (voice of Martin Scorsese), he soon ends upwardly in hot water. However, fate runs him smack into Frankie and Lenny. During the scuffle, an ballast accidentally kills Frankie and Oscar is mistakenly given credit for the kill. Now a media celebrity for being a "shark slayer," Oscar rides his status all the way to the tiptop, with Sykes managing his interests and the sharks fuming that their height spot in the food concatenation is speedily losing its power.
Situations soon escalate and Oscar and Lenny reach an understanding: if they fake a battle and Oscar emerges triumphant, he tin can keep his credibility equally a shark slayer and Lenny tin can kickoff a new life.
"Shark Tale" openly references "The Godfather" and "Jaws" at every opportunity, which in and of itself isn't likewise bad except that so little is made of the main plot itself that the whole motility feels like a patchwork of other, better movies, only with a meaningless hip-hop mental attitude. The special furnishings are up to par but there's nothing actually special about them. The audience needs a story and characters, not merely choreographed dance sequences and goofy product placements.
All this might have been negligible had the picture show actually been funny. This, sadly, is not the case. I only recorded one good laugh during the screening I attended, and that involved a shark voiced by Peter Falk whose flatulence had the expected effect on a henchmen. When a fart joke is the best yous accept to offering, then you've got serious problems.
The story also steals shamelessly from the 1942 Disney drawing "The Reluctant Dragon," which featured a fixed battle between a loudmouth braggart knight and a pacifist dragon to keep the locals off both their backs. That story was at to the lowest degree brusk and cute, neither of which tin can be said about this debacle.
Forth with the plot, vocalisation interim is pretty lifeless as well. Smith gets to indulge his ego, playing his own persona on screen once again, this time in fish course. De Niro and Scorsese seem to be having fun spoofing their own tough guy roles, merely that's about it from them. The biggest surprise is how much of a laid-back performance Black gives. His trademark manic desperation is nowhere to be seen, playing instead a shockingly normal grapheme. Had he cut loose, the scenes he's in might have been more enjoyable. What's stranger is his hiding of his vegetarian leanings from his dad is handled like an allegory for a gay person coming out to his parents.
When is Hollywood going to realize it doesn't matter how many famous actors you get to do voices for your characters; if the story sucks, so no amount of interim talent is going to save information technology? There are 3 Academy Accolade winners in this cast, only don't use that as a benchmark for excellence.
This all amounts to another blithe project from DreamWorks high on energy and depression on inspiration. After "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmarron," "Road to El Dorado" and "Sinbad" all tanked, information technology's clear that the "Shrek" serial is the simply good affair the studio has going for information technology correct at present.
Of course, at that place's no escaping comparison to that other computer animated fish motion-picture show, either, and that'southward when this film looks most wanting. Where Pixar's "Finding Nemo" swam the total depths of the sea, "Shark Tale" seems content to just tread water in the wading pool.
iv out of 10 stars. Pretty to look at, but any flick that tries to push this much "coolness" down your throat is but request to be despised.
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Deserves a Higher Rating
I just tin't sympathise why "Shark Tale" is so underrated. I have watched this movie about iii times and still, I still tin't go plenty of it. The fact is that the characters were very entertaining, the blitheness was bright, and the story was nifty and was sending messages along with it, such every bit accept your destiny, be happy with who yous are, take others for who they are, and you don't take to live "on height of the reef" to be a "somebody." This movie also exposes united states to the pop culture. What more than does this movie need to to make it a good one? I hateful this pic has it all: laughs and everything. Then why is information technology and so underrated? I really don't know. I exercise know though, that "Shark Tale" is ane of the best moving picture I accept ever watched.
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Good movie
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I personally recollect this is a practiced movie, yes there are ameliorate animated movies out at that place merely i still call back this movie deserves more than a 6.0 every bit an overall rating. Information technology is a not bad family unit picture.
I enjoyed this film years ago and withal relish watching it now, i remember it is very funny for an animated movie, and i am sure many people will call back the same. It has some cracking actors / actresses doing the voices for the characters. I would recommend this movie if you are a large animation fan. It has skilful music likewise. I too similar the story line, sweet...
Well worth a seven / 10... mayhap even more than.
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Fun for both kids and adults.
This CG animated feature can't boast a truly great story, but it does get in enough on the abilities of its very well chosen cast. It stars Will Smith as the phonation of Oscar, a tongue scrubber at a "whale wash" in an undersea kingdom. Oscar talks large and dreams large, and is tired of being a "nobody". And then when one of the sons of great white godfather Don Lino (voice of Robert De Niro) perishes, Oscar takes credit for killing the shark, and becomes the toast of the town. He also becomes friends with Lenny (vocalization of Jack Blackness), Don Linos' wimpy, vegetarian son.
"Shark Tale" is skilful entertainment overall, with plenty of amusing graphic symbol pattern, and a respectable corporeality of energy. The filmmakers do come with a lot of chuckle-inducing jokes, both verbal and visual. But the existent hook is in hearing various actors play animated sharks every bit mobsters. On i level, the flick is okay viewing for younger viewers (although information technology might be somewhat intense for the youngest of them), and on another level, it's savvy comedy for grownups, with references to well known mob movies of the past.
Smith is a existent alive wire as the fast talking Oscar, De Niro is a pleasure, and Renee Zellweger is highly-seasoned every bit Angie, Oscars' co-worker who'southward really in beloved with him. Angelina Jolie is just right as the self-serving, seductive fish who only attaches herself to Oscar when she thinks he's going places. Various other familiar voices here, as well: Peter Falk, Michael Imperioli, Vincent Pastore, and Ziggy Marley and Doug E. Doug equally a pair of Rastafarian jellyfish. Information technology'south a detail treat to hear the primary filmmaker Martin Scorsese, who lends his voice to Sykes, a frequently flustered puffer fish.
The hip, catchy soundtrack as well helps to make this an agreeable 90 infinitesimal long outing.
Vii out of ten.
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Quality Shows
tedg 3 October 2004
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Spoilers herein.
In all things that humans make, there are levels of expertise. A thing of necessary education is to be able to distinguish among these levels, and almost particularly betwixt the but competent and the original on which it is based. This a style of maxim that to exist an educated, cine-literate viewer, you lot need to perceive the difference betwixt this and 'Nemo.'
A cruel dominion in concern is that mature markets can stratify between those that define and redefine the market and those that must struggle to keep up. If you succeed in decision-making a market place this style, you lot'll always win in the long run in the nigh important means.
In computers, its Steve Jobs who defines the market. Always has been. Beak Gates copies.
In motion picture blitheness, its Steve Jobs again, with his Pixar. The guiding principle there is a affair of original excellence, to understand the underlying fabric of the affair. When Katzenberg was at Disney, he famously said that anyone could practice what Pixar had (with 'Toy Story') and set up out to prove it. Ultimately, Dreamworks animation was founded.
Pixar made a bug moving-picture show, Dreamworks fabricated a bug movie (incidentally funded by Bill Gates). Pixar made a movie virtually bad guys backside the scenes, and and then did Dreamworks ('Shrek'). Pixar made a fish picture, and so it is to exist expected that Dreamworks would follow.
Here are ii indicators of why 'Nemo' worked and 'Shark' doesn't, in other words, why the onetime is the Tiffany and the latter the JC Penny's of blitheness.
Pixar works in 3D, and is concerned with _all_ the matters of 3D. Having mastered many of them in the earlier projects, they focused on ane of the more difficult in 'Nemo,' the move of the 'camera.' The reason Nemo is a fish story is so that the set can have move in three dimensions, with the camera swooping around every bit if it were a fish ghostviewer.
(You have to understand that the original cameras were stationary at eye superlative. Virtually great advances in picture have been accompanied by advances in the philosophy of how the camera moves. This is not a mere game, as it implies _who_ and _what_ the viewer is.)
So watch 'Nemo' and see that Pixar redefined the genre with the fashion the camera exists in and sees three dimensional movement. At present watch 'Shark' and exist amazed at how they missed this. All the movement - even the fight scenes which many summer movies already make dimensional - are two D. That's one reason why this subliminally seems pale in comparing.
At that place are other reasons of course, mostly obvious and uninteresting. Except in the seriousness of the approach.
Pixar takes its stories seriously. They may accept some fun from fourth dimension to time with references to other films, or fifty-fifty stepping back from the story to make a joke about the story. But they never compromise the seriousness of the story. They care nearly whether Nemo gets lost.
Dreamworks doesn't take the story seriously at all. They decided to bring a agglomeration of pieces that they thought had value, and highlight those pieces. So instead of having a godfather shark, we accept deNiro. It is non a character that grows out of the story that deNiro helps create. It is deNiro _as_ a grapheme, downwardly to that odd mole on the right of his face. And and so with all the other characters.
And the songs likewise. They are wedged in, rather than growing out of the theatrical dynamics. And aye, so are all the references to other films. Sure, that was a gas with 'Van Helsing' but in that case, the picture itself was morphing from one genre to another merely like the characters. Hither, the references are pasted on as if the story were outlined and the story 'fluffers' brought in to add together cute jokes for the adults.
Just doesn't work. At least for the immediate futurity, Pixar owns this genre, and Dreamworks will have to swim in their turbulent wake.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You lot can observe something ameliorate to do with this part of your life.
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An over-rated Hollywood churner that squanders a bandage with just minimal interest
While Sharktale may appeal to an audience out there, it's difficult to tell for which one. The film is not a failure, but thanks to the mega-hype past the Hollywood system, with marketing railing up the walls and the stars of the flick (only recognizable by vocalization and oddly shaped animation on the faces) trumped to bring in the kids and adults, would have to practice a lot to live up to information technology. As it is, the filmmakers bring in not but flick references to non only The Godfather but many other criminal offense films and shows, but urban/hip-hop culture, and corporations similar the Gap, Krispy Kreme, Burger Rex, etc. But the film is such in love with the in-jokes that it leaves the story and characters on the cloth-hanger. The jokes that do work are the ones that aren't as over-the-top as the others, or at least those that don't involve flatulence and over-emphasis on "bling-bling".
This is not to say that there aren't ways to make such elements funny- Shrek two but skimmed the line on what was tolerable. But Sharktale gives the audience a story that involves a lot for kids to digest, despite the conventions and clichés of it (petty fish wants big things, bets all his money at the sea-horse racetrack and loses, blow-fish boss orders execution, then has a run-in and takes credit for a mobster's son's expressionless corpse, becomes a glory, and is under pressure with the other son who'south a bit of a wimp, and with his love interest). As for the adults, the gags and puns sometimes doesn't work either, equally did in Shrek or Finding Nemo. Some of the ideal wit that emerged in Dreamworks' showtime CGI characteristic, Antz, does come through, similar an (all to cursory) Abbot and Costello riff by the fish played by Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese. There's even a funny bit with a shrimp cocktail.
One big problem in the picture show is that the casting, while somewhat efficient, isn't utilized properly. Actors like Will Smith and Jack Black can be funny, but the lines and jokes they pull in the motion-picture show lie kind of flat in the h2o. This might not be and then for some of the kids and adults in the audition. However, Sharktale does depend on a varying sense of humor. The ideas existence some of the casting is of interest, like small roles for Michael Imperioli, Peter Faulk, and Katie Couric. But then they don't get much to practise. Are they only there because they're celebrities, or does the script give them something to do? From my point of view, the script doesn't deliver, at least with the kind of abandon it used to.
In fact, Sharktale seems to recoup such things as a marketing-tested script and mis-casting with the usual extravagant and detailed animation. If not for the huge budget to cast the stars, implement the hip-hop soundtrack, and get the CGI, wouldn't this film be made nether a direct-to-video or Television set standard? In that location seem to be ii double standards that also got to me equally I walked out of the theater- ane) in lodge for the 3-D to work, equally in a classic like Toy Story, the graphic symbol shouldn't exist 2-D. When an actor like Robert De Niro has only one emotion throughout the whole film, and changes at the end of the last act, the character likewise as the actor playing him is reduced to something of a video-game caricature. 2) If the message of the pic is to accept who yous are and not to prevarication in social club to get to the meridian (an beauteous message for kids amidst all the phooey in the story), then why would the Sykes character, played by Scorsese, have on the "bling-bling" and hip-hop linguistic communication he hasn't had through-out the residuum of the story?
Even but equally a stand-alone film, aside from the lineage of CGI in the by 10 years, Sharktale is just nothing new. It'southward the kind of film you're glad to come across once, so that you know yous saw information technology, and know why yous liked it or dis-liked it. C-
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one of the worst mainstream animations in the last decade
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SPOILERS Ever since the original "Toy Story" (1995), we've had some truly wonderful animations. With films like "Shrek" (2001) and "Finding Nemo" (2004), nosotros've had some amazing stories for the whole family which are equally funny and impressively animated. Past the law of averages therefore, information technology is perhaps not surprising we would end up with ane or two truly woeful stories. That is what we have here with "Shark Tale". This is a picture show which is brusque on humour, devoid of originality and a mechanism for Volition Smith'south ego.
Smith plays Oscar, a down on his luck fish who works as a tongue scraper at a Whale Launder. With dreams of making it large and moving up in the world, Oscar is a no-hoper who constantly bleeds his heart out to loyal friend Angie (Renee Zellwenger). When things take a plow for the worse however, Oscar inadvertently kills a shark and a media icon. Now with a Vegetarian shark (Jack Black) for visitor, Oscar must survive popularity, and the growing threat of Shark Godfather Don Lino (Robert DeNiro).
On paper, any flick which involves a Shark spoof of all Italian mafia films, should be hilarious. Truthfully, at times it shows signs of reaching this peak, but all too frequently it drifts away to leave united states feeling biting disappointment.
DeNiro and friend Martin Scorsese appear to enjoy poking fun at a genre which they are culturally renowned, but with 1 or two jokes which are either stolen from elsewhere (a scene involving Smith'south graphic symbol at a Mafia meeting is a replica of a scene from 1999'south "Analyze This") or based on seemingly personal stories, the story never clicks. Withal, DeNiro and Scorsese are more tolerable compared with Will Smith's role.
As Oscar the fish, Will Smith merely plays himself. Information technology is like watching the Freshwater Prince of Bel-Air or something equally pointless. Smith walks around making irritating comments, wearing "bling" and generally making a fool of himself. Will Smith has proved in the past that whether comedy or drama, he CAN act, just the man is fast loosing whatsoever support with performances similar this where he plays an quondam character in new surroundings. Mayhap it's time his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith convinced him to actually lay this Fresh Prince graphic symbol to bed and actually do more challenging work. Sadly, this probably won't happen.
Bated from Smith, DeNiro and Scorsese, "Shark Tale" also features song performances by Jack Black, Renee Zellwenger and Angelina Jolie. These 3 actors are famous for different styles of piece of work, and they are worth mentioning for their performances in "Shark Tale" purely for the fact that they aren't atrocious. They're not specially superb, with even Black seeming subdued, but they don't stand out as awful. They're simply mediocre.
Another flaw with "Shark Tale" is a trouble faced also by "Shrek 2" (also 2004). Whilst the afterwards film was at times hilarious, it did possess a lot of jokes virtually current goggle box serial which might not be remembered in the future. The same is truthful in "Shark Tale". At first appearance, Smith'south grapheme appears in a fantastic apartment and is showing the furniture off. Blatantly joking most a modern MTV program called "Cribs" the jokes are not only unfunny, but they won't last beyond a few years, if fifty-fifty that.
All in all, there is footling praise that can be given to "Shark Tale". A woeful story with little going for it, it fails on all levels and whilst it is harsh to say information technology should never have been made, it nearly definitely needed more rethinking. Should be avoided at all costs.
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Garbage that has not anile well
This is a generic ganster moving picture bearded every bit a kids film. It has product placement out the wazoo. And the only reason information technology's blithe was to leech off the sucess of Finding Nemo; I'm dead serious, the story itself would non change if you fabricated it live activity and set up information technology in New York.
Aside from that; the "characters" are shot like humans are shot in live activeness (considering this picture show was made past hacks), the phonation acting is terrible, the "characters" are ho-hum stereotypes, the plot is generic, the color pallet is ugly, the characters are ugly, the environment is ugly, and since I'yard reviewing this picture show in 2018, I can say this feels then dated and icky.
Skip this trash and lookout Finding Nemo.
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good try but somewhat disappointing!
with large and well-known names such as will smith, Robert De Nero, Renee zellwegger, Angelina Jolie, Ziggy Marley, and Katie couric involved in this animated movie, i felt that this moving picture was going to at least come close to finding nemo, a masterpiece that is and ever will be the leader of the "under-the-sea" blazon animation. shark tale was somewhat disappointing and i did not notice annihilation hilariously funny about information technology. in this picture, a fish (voice of volition smith that wants to make a name for himself in order believing that he is a loser.. coincidentally, while trying to escape a shark, he ends upwardly "killing" it (it was actually just an blow). however, the other fish believe that he really killed the shark and he receives fame and celebrity as the "shark slayer." broken-hearted for the chance to be somebody, this fish plays along and uses it to his advantage. the well-nigh ridiculous part is the fact that these sharks are actually afraid of this puny fish. yet, this is nothing compared to will smith'south role at the finish of this moving in mending the human relationship between a father shark and his son who chose a vegetarian lifestyle instead of being like the other sharks. the merely "funny" parts in this movie involve the shrimp who announced a few times (at least in think they are shrimp). after seeing finding nemo, this movie was definitely a disappointment.
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Fun for everyone
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Recap: Lenny is not happy. He is a vegetarian and a smashing white shark, and that don't really piece of work out. His father, Don Lino (the mafia-boss effectually), is now considering retiring, and leaving Lenny and his brother Frankie in charge. As a last effort Frankie takes Lenny out to teach him how to be a real shark. At the reef Oscar is in trouble. He works at a Whale wash but aspires to get Somebody. His ambition also makes him overlook his co-worker Angie, who is secretly in love with Oscar. But Oscar's dominate, Sykes, is under pressure from Don Lino. Sykes in turn, with his jellyfish thugs Bernie and Ernie, forces Oscar to pay his, somewhat large debts. Oscar, with aid from Angie, puts the money together but loses them at the races. Sykes'southward thugs so bring Oscar out into the "desert" where Oscar is about to "become lost" when Frankie and Lenny stumbles upon them. Ernie and Bernie flees and when Frankie goes to set on to testify Lenny how it is done, he is killed in a freak accident. Back at the reef Oscar take credit for the killing, is soon named The Sharkslayer, and becomes the hero and the Somebody he always dreamt to be. Things get complicated when Lenny turns up and threatens to reveal the truth if Oscar doesn't aid him start a new life in the reef. Dorsum at the shark hangout, Don Lino is furious about the news that one son is dead, the other 1 missing. He wants revenge...
Comments: This is a not bad flick, which I believe can exist enjoyed by everyone. The story itself is somewhat focused on "mature" aspects equally dear, revenge and and then on. But I believe kids volition take a lot of fun watching it as well. For the more moving picture-experienced audience the picture is full of axiomatic or ¨subtler, all hilarious, references and spoofs of other movies. In other aspects, DreamWorks animators and crew take done a not bad chore. The flick is illustrated beautifully and peculiarly nice is that the characters accept borrowed some physical features from the actors that lent them their voice. The actors and actresses practice information technology well besides, using their whole range of vocal abilities and peculiarities. And at concluding, but most important, the story itself is very funny and inventive. No tiresome moments. Slap-up!
9/x
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Fun for adults
I liked 'Shark Tale'. It is funny and has quite some original elements I will non spoil for you. But while I was watching I realized how many jokes were there intended for adults and how little for children. Since I guess you have to label this as a family pic I was wondering if that was actually the intention of the filmmakers. I hateful, the main inspiration comes from R-rated films 'The Godfather' and 'Jaws'. Other footling jokes and one-liners find their origin in films like 'Scarface', 'Gladiator' and 'Apocalypse At present', over again R-rated.All those great laughs, for me at least, will non be funny or even remotely understood by children.
That said, let's approach this moving-picture show every bit a comedy mainly made for adults. Again, adults will probably detect this very funny, even funnier when you have seen quite some films. The story tells nearly Lenny (voice by Jack Black), a shark who happens to exist a vegetarian, a disgrace for his father Don Lino (Robert De Niro). This shark makes a deal with a small fish named Oscar (Will Smith). On the reef where Oscar lives they think Oscar killed another shark, Lenny'south blood brother, so Lenny and Oscar try to keep the rumor that way. Subplots involve Oscar'due south longtime friend Angie (Renée Zellweger) who is secretly in love with him, a new fish Lola (Angelina Jolie) who likes Oscar at present he is famous, and Sykes (Martin Scorsese), a fish who used to be Don Lino's partner but now teams upwardly with Oscar. Sykes has two helpers, the funny sidekicks any Disney-film would exist proud of.
What can I say more almost this picture? The animation is good, although I liked the arroyo with 'Finding Nemo' improve. On the other manus, this is the kind of picture where realistic animation probably would be out of place. At present I have mentioned 'Finding Nemo' I could compare information technology a little more than. 'Nemo' is the better film since information technology is equally funny for adults and close to the perfect film for children. 'Nemo' was simple in its story but very inventive as well in the picayune things. Think nearly the fish with brusk term retentiveness loss. Things like that you lot will non find in 'Shark Tale' but yous will have many laughs and smiles. Especially the i-liners taken from other films were hilarious but I have to say over again; you must take seen the other film to actually like information technology. I did, I laughed.
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The story of what happens when 1 little fish tells a great white prevarication...
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In the bounding main globe, we take as the chief character a piddling fish called Oscar, who has a humble chore as a whale washer.In the same job, nosotros have his best friend Angie, who works equally secretary and has a secret trounce in Oscar for a long time. Don Lino is a powerful shark and the boss in the big shark's mafia.He has two sons: lenny and Frankie. Frankie is Lino's big pride, simply Lenny refuses to eat fish(he is vegetarian)is sugariness and hates to fight. Lino is worried with Lenny, and he asks Frankie to help his brother to become a big and stiff predator.One twenty-four hours, when Frankie was suppose to teach Lenny nearly how to hunt( he near ate Oscar)an ballast kills him. Oscar is institute at the scene of the law-breaking. At the same fourth dimension Oscar takes advantage of the state of affairs to be famous and rich (his big dreams), Don Lino is informed that Oscar killed his son and decides to chase Oscar with the other sharks. Oscar sees that he is going to exist in a bigger problem than he imagined....
Ps: I loved to run into the famous voices and the looks of famous actors/actresses/directors in this motion picture! Will Smith Robert De Niro Renée Zellweger Jack Black Angelina Jolie Martin Scorsese and Christina Aguilera was some of them!:)
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Pretty fun
I found this moving picture to be only fun. It is nowhere in the quality of Finding Nemo, Shrek, or Toy Story 2 but I found it a good time at the movies. Will Smith is very entertaining every bit the fish who tries to make himself into somebody by claiming to exist a shark slayer. Robert De Niro is very good every bit the voice of the head shark. At that place are many in joke references to mobster movies and of grade Jaws. I too liked Martin Scorsese as the opportunist accident fish who tries to use Smith's character to his advantage. The merely one I was not impressed with was Jack Blackness as the shark who is a vegetarian. Maybe it is because I am non actually a fan of his only his grapheme is whiny and weak. This moving-picture show may not be appropriate for very young children considering the sharks can be scary at times and the in joke references will go over their heads. 7/10
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Unfairly slated
I'one thousand a big fan of the new wave of animated movies that take striking the screen'due south in the past decade, from the groundbreaking Toy Story up until Shrek, Monsters Inc and concluding year's, um, incredible. The Incredibles, yet this is one picture show I had avoided, purely due to the poor reviews it had received. A poor mans Finding Nemo was the criticism levelled at information technology mostly, then after simply viewing information technology what a pleasant surprise information technology turned out to be!
De Niro is superb as the mafioso Shark, every bit is Scourcese, who proves to exist quite a proficient comic character actor. The animation is superb with an entire underwater New York-esquire urban center created with vehicles, taxi's, skyscrapers and shops beautifully recreated. At that place are plenty of gags with nods to such films every bit Jaws, The Godfather and Analyse This, and the motion-picture show never loses stride throughout it's enjoyable 90 minutes.
My only slight criticism would be that Will Smiths character is basically him as a fish, all wise ass, shades,sneakers etc but I supposed this could be levelled at De Niro, merely actually this really doesn't detract from an enjoyable movie.
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Rated atrocious because of target audience
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Someone asked why the bad posts and ratings? Because this is an animated picture that is supposed to be something to take kids to and instead is a natural language in cheek animated version of a mafia film like the "R" rated "Godfather" series. The linguistic communication, sexuality, etc. is not appropriate for kids. Adults who may be a fan of this type of picture show might find it a funny satire, but information technology is definitely not for kids and quite frankly, though not the worst in blitheness I've seen (that goes to "The Last Unicorn"), bulletin and content wise, it was one of the worst. The only reason nosotros are even having this chat is that some very talented actors lent their phonation to it and thus defenseless ADULTS attention. Immature kids don't fifty-fifty know Robert DeNiro was in Godfather or know that Peter Falk used to make movies with the Rat Pack. Then it's non geared to kids, simply it'southward marketed to them and THAT'Southward why people rated it low.
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