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Will smith oscar fish12/19/2023 ![]() ![]() You’ve got the lowest rated Dreamworks Animation film on Rotten Star-studded snarky comedy full of pop culture references! What could Way to go about getting that is to recapture that Shrek magic with a You’re probably in need of a little bit more cash. Of that Shrek money, right? Maybe, but when you bomb that hard, The fourth biggest confirmed loss in box office history, losingĭreamworks $125 million, but they could definitely rebound with some With the first two Shrek movies becoming smash (mouth) hits and TheĪnimated Biblical epic for the ages. See, the studio found solid footing a lot quicker than you’d think, Single most epic animated films ever made, but there was a time where "Shark Tale," a little fish in a big pond of far superior CGI films, features Will Smith (Oscar), left, Jack Black (Lenny) and Renee Zellweger (Angie).Dreamworks has such a stellar reputation these days thanks to thingsĪ subversive superhero masterpiece ahead of its time and The SHARK TALE (PG, 92 minutes) - Contains mild obscenity and crude humor. The Disney film is far more seaworthy, particularly for its comic writing and story, which makes it hard to imagine "Shark Tale's" theatrical run yielding as much box office as the DVD release - that lucrative consolation prize for many a so-so project. Many of us have grown accustomed to extremely high quality in the computer-animated genre, thanks to such great films as "Toy Story" and "Shrek." This movie just doesn't match its predecessors, and those inevitable comparisons to Disney's "Finding Nemo" will leave "Shark Tale" foundering. But that vapor of mediocrity might penetrate more discerning nostrils. The movie's familiarity probably won't register as anything but fun to most kids. Doug and Ziggy Marley as Bernie and Ernie, two Rastafarian jellyfish, smack a little too much of Sebastian the Caribbean crustacean in Walt Disney's "The Little Mermaid." Even the relatively amusing performances by Doug E. ![]() (The ill-advised, trite depiction of Italian Americans as mafia types has already elicited a little turbulence in politically correct waters.)ĭespite some peppy improvisational moments between Scorsese and De Niro, not to mention Smith's sitcom-honed, love-me-love-me performance as Oscar, "Shark Tale" feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation. It neglects the opportunity to go deeper into originality and, after a while, those incessant sea puns and the mafioso shtick wear pretty thin. "Shark Tale" isn't any trouble to sit through. ![]() Success also forces Oscar to choose romantically between angelfish gal pal Angie (Renee Zellweger), who has always loved him, and va-va-voom fish Lola (Angelina Jolie), who just loves a winner. Trouble is, the whole reef expects Oscar to take care of every shark that floats through. And he persuades the reluctant Lenny, who saved him from Frankie in the first place, to help continue his undeserved legend. Oscar's not about to set the record straight. Through a comedy of errors, the jive-talking Oscar gets credited for the killing and is hailed as the legendary Sharkslayer. Unfortunately, when Frankie chases after a fish called Oscar (Will Smith), he runs tragically afoul of an anchor. ![]() Don dispatches his tough, oldest son, Frankie (Michael Imperioli of "The Sopranos"), to give Lenny some killer instinct. DreamWorks' animated movie gives us Don Lino, a great white shark, as voiced by Robert De Niro and Sykes, his sidekick, a puffer fish who fills up with air when he's upset - this character courtesy of rat-a-tat chatterbox Martin Scorsese.ĭon, head of the sharks and ruler of the reef in this undersea world, is worried about his favored son, Lenny (Jack Black), who doesn't take well to the shark life. IN "SHARK Tale," those GoodFella fishes are tawking the tawk. ![]()
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