Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Gangsters, Kidnapping, School / Campus, Urban, Femme Fatale, Farce, Animals, Love Triangle
Tagline: In fall, a new school will rule.
Plot: Oscar (Will Smith) is a hustler who has always been able to fin-agle his way out of trouble. He works at a whale wash but thinks of bigger and better thinks. He is generally late but his job is saved by Angie (Renee Zellweger), the beautiful angelfish who harbors a secret crush on him. Oscar's boss is Sykes (Martin Scorsese), a puffer fish is full of hot air and never misses an opportunity to make a few extra clams. But now; Don Lino (Robert De Niro), a great white shark at the top of the Reef’s food chain wants Sykes to pay up on the debt he owns him. Don Lino wants his sons to take over the family business. But one of Don Lino's son Lenny is a closet vegetarian and doesn't want to be in the business.Sykes calls Oscar in and wants the money he has been advanced on his wages. He is told to bring it to the race track. Oscar doesn't know where he is going to get the money and tells Angie. Angie gives Oscar a gift from her grandmother so he can repay his debt but on the way to deliver the money Oscar bets the money on a long shot. Sykes has his guards take Oscar out to sea but they come upon a shark and scamper. The shark is killed and when the guards return they think Oscar killed the shark. Oscar doesn't correct them and so now everyone thinks he is a shark slayer. This lie
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 All in all, ''Shark Tale'' is reasonably good fun, even if, in the end, it's not really very interesting.--A.O. Scott (The New York Times)
It's not as good as Shrek, the Toy Story movies, or Finding Nemo, but it's better than Ice Age and Shrek 2. ... The key thing to note is that Shark Tale represents solid family entertainment, and will find a special place in the hearts of those who adorethe Godfather movies and the TV series "The Sopranos."  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
"Shark Tale" isn't any trouble to sit through. But in a way, that's a problem. It neglects the opportunity to go deeper into originality and, after a while, those incessant sea puns and the mafioso shtick wear pretty thin.--Desson Thomson (Washington Post)
Unfortunately, you know you are in the presence of big names while watching Shark Tale, but that’s about all it ever comes down to in 85 minutes. C+--Lee Tistaert (Lee's Movie Info)
Shark Tale exists solely to provide fodder for Happy Meals, to let a few celebrities come to work in their sweat pants, and to give DreamWorks Animation the pretense of keeping up with the Joneses. We know they can do better than this. The only thing Shark Tale leaves is the question of why they didn't. D--Rob Vaux (Flipsidemovies.com)
After consideration of all its strengths (inspired casting, some funny one-liners, etc) and all its weaknesses (insipid voice acting by Will Smith, awkward “moral” scenes), one comes to the conclusion that ‘Shark Tale’ is a rather vanilla entry in the rapidly expanding genre of computer animation.  --Joe Rickey (Movie-Gurus.com)
Shark Tale is a tour de force, where some weakness of plot is counterbalanced by technical virtuosity, top name stars, superb characterisation and voicing combined with popular cultural musical icons. 8/10--Avril Carruthers (Movie-Vault.com)
This watered down Nemo still has enough flava to quench your thirst if just given a chance.  --Derek May (MovieWeb)
If there’s a joke in there, I sure can’t find it. Mostly, though, it’s a gentle comedy that teaches the requisite lesson about being yourself while taking no chances whatsoever, unless you count not changing the lyrics to the 70s classic “Carwash” even as the object being washed is a whale. --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
“Shark Tale” has a good share of humor to go along with the splendid look and feel, but it is just too familiar, too alike to the other films from Disney and Dreamworks to really stand on its own. --Jason Whyte (eFilmCritic.com)
Shark Tale has quite a few funny moments, and a few which aren't as funny as they perhaps should be. It's an average movie, which makes it good enough for a watch in my book. --Jay Seaver (eFilmCritic.com)
Shark Tale is beautifully animated and may be enough to distract kids with the pretty colors, but adults and savvy animation fans are likely to recognize the lack of effort in the humor department.  --Erik Childress (eFilmCritic.com)
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 | Vicky Jenson
Shrek, Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party, Family Tree |
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India.Arie
The Tyra Banks Show, Lightning in a Bottle, 4th Annual BET Awards |
 | Hans Zimmer
Gladiator, Batman Begins, As Good as It Gets |
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| The pop-cultural satire is fairly toothless -- do we really need more Mafia parodies at this point? And does De Niro do anything BUT Mafia parodies anymore? -- and the "sweet" moments ring false and feel obligatory. There are laughs, yes, but nothing so witty you'll remember it later, and nothing so touching you'll get a lump in your throat. This one's going belly-up, chum. C+ --Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
Though "Shark Tale" shares a central father-son relationship with last year's "Finding Nemo," it has none of the emotional tug of that movie, neither does it really go for one.  --Jack Mathews (New York Daily News)
Dreamworks seems to be relying a little too much on what's "hip" now and even though I was entertained by this film, I don't think it will become a classic anytime soon. 7/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
Enjoyable enough, but Shark Tale is no Nemo , despite several good gags and the best efforts of an impressive vocal cast. --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
Despite the all-star cast, including Oscar (Will Smith) and Lenny (Jack Black), "Shark Tale" is a shipwreck. They say a dead fish stinks from the head first - but the animated shipwreck "Shark Tale" arrives reeking all over.  --Lou Lumenick (New York Post)
"Shark Tale" is a fine kettle of fish that should be irresistible to anyone who loves movies, while also offering some interesting subtext giving the feature an extra little bite.--Paul Clinton (CNN Showbiz)
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