Oh my god it's full of stars!

Rating: 8/10 (13 January 2005)

"Shark Tale" is a very entertaining movie suitable for most ages. The acting is very good and the dialog is excellent. An unusual lot of stars in the cast who seems to have had a lot of fun in their roles. Will Smith is the same as always. The movies suffers mainly from three things:
* Oscar, the main character, is somewhat ugly designed, looking like a dragon fish with a Will Smith-mask pasted on. Some of the other characters are also a bit too human-like, I'm thinking about the character Lola. She is as close to sexy as a ... fish ... can get, and fish aren't supposed to be sexy.
* The soundtrack contains a lot of RNB and hip-hop. While I don't like these genres very much in general, in my opinion they are especially bad as movie music and makes for a lot of the movie to feel like a stereotypical RNB music video.
* What with all the chairs and seats? Fish usually don't sit and it looks very uncomfortable when they do.
The setting is fun, very similar to "Finding Nemo", except with a lot more characters, and city-like environments, involved. "Shark Tale" is slightly more cartoonish and pop-ish, and with more anatomically incorrect character designs. The cinematics and animation are beautiful and imaginative.
The story is a standard "things are bad/things get good/things get worse/things get perfect/happy ending" story, not very unpredictable but both the comic and dramatic segments work fine together.
No masterpiece but definitely not a waste of time. It does not really have the kind of "soul" that makes some movies lovable.
I rate it 8/10.