The Difference between Fish and Fishpaste

Rating: Null/10 (18 October 2004)

Having watched both Shark Tale and Finding Nemo at the cinema, this is like comparing fish with fishpaste. I did find some of 'Shark Tale' funny - indeed if 'Finding Nemo' had come out after this , I would have been more impressed. The film is as others have said here - a 'star vehicle' -in which the fish characters are made up to look like the actors. Just as well no one asked to have their performance removed from the movie ! When you compare this to Nemo - does Dori the fish look like Ellen DeGeneres or the pelican remind you of Geoffrey Rush. Thought not.
Perhaps the analogy here is a bit like the old days of Disney and Warner Bros cartoons - the later were always a bit of a Fast Food approach to animating movies. Perhaps Dreamworks wants to mine the same seam of humour - which will be OK for the next few years but will leave audiences puzzled in about 20 or 30 years when they try to remember who Will Smith was.
So my advice to 'Dreamworks' is plug and promote 'Shark Tale' for the next year or so but don't expect to see this as a long distance franchise.