Waist of a Good Cast

Rating: Null/10 (2 January 2005)

Shark Tale is another big CG film from Dreamworks. You'd think with all the big actors they got for this film that it would be a good movie, but it is not. Its attempt at being an urban-like film and the fact that it plays off stereotypes does not help either. The biggest problem was Will Smith.
First, let me get one thing out of the way. This is not a Pixar Animation Studios Film. There are other studios that can do movies in CG. 20th Century Fox evens does some films in CG. So everybody that says this is a Pixar film, shut the hell up. Pixar does not need this stupid movie on their list.
The movie focuses on the life of Oscar, a little fish with big dreams. When he pisses his employer off by having him bet on the wrong sea horse, he is left in the middle of the ocean. As he is chased by a shark, an anchor falls from the sky and crushes it. A few jellyfish that were in the area look up at him and believe he killed the shark. Through the rest of the movie he goes around, pretending to be a "sharkslayer".
This movie could have been good, but they decided to focus it on Oscar instead of the Mafia sharks. The only reason I sat through this whole movie was because I liked those guys, and wished they had been in the movie more. I did not like Lenny. He was just dumb character. He was hardly funny, and he was just annoying.
This movie did play off stereotypes. What the hell did they mean by "A lot of WHITE FISH can't do it." White fish? Then of course they had the Jamaican jellyfish that could not speak English very well. The had the Mafia sharks, who were Italian. Simply saying that um... "BLACK FISH" are supposed cool while "WHITE FISH" are not. The movie did not need any of that, but that's the problem. That's what the whole the movie is about.
Will Smith was just terrible. He's a good actor, but the character was stupid. He was not the right person for it. Listening to him talking "BLACK" gets annoying after the first few sentences, and does not let up. It continues on through the entire movie. He was just not the guy to get for the part, but then all the other actors, except for the Mafia Sharks (Not Including Lenny), were not right for the parts either.
This was such a stupid film. I believe I laughed once during the whole thing. It was an okay story, and a cast of well-known actors, but not even that can help this movie. It was boring most of the way through. I'm a teen, and I didn't like it. I probably still would not have liked it if I was in my childhood years.
Entertainment = 4.5/10
Favorite Scene = Almost every scene involving the Mafia Sharks, without Lenny. If the movie would have focused around them a little more, this may have been a good movie.