Chorale Reef

Rating: Null/10 (1 October 2004)

Lots of celebrity voices contributed to this animated movie (you've no doubt already perused the IMDb credits list).
Presumably everyone involved tried to creatively improve on, say, animated features such as Dreamworks "Shrek" or, more to the point, Disney's financially successful "Finding Nemo." But then, if you think about it, Dreamworks was probably less concerned with making a cookie-cutter version of successful cartoons made previously and more concerned with successful marketing. I was given free tickets so I wasn't disappointed one way or another. "Shark Tale" is good... It delivers, it entertains and it provides a few good laughs.
In ST, most of the male cartoon characters sound like they're trying to imitate Danny DeVito (not a contributing voice here), and the voices sometimes sound electronically altered (?).
Comedian Black's "Lenny" protagonist-shark sounds more like David L. Lander's 'Andrew "Squiggy" Squigman' on the TV comedy series "Laverne and Shirley," or 'Curly' from the "Three Stooges." In fact, "Lenny" sounds no different from Hanna Barbara's "Jabberjaw" shark (a voice also based on the "Curly" character).
Still, the predictable song/dance finale will have you stomping your feet and clapping your hands with rhythm and glee. Once again we board the Stuck-in-the-Seventies music train, and all ends well in this hip-hop, busta'hip dancin,' Rastafarian-rappin,' soul-diggin' undersea world.