When a son of a gangster shark boss is accidentally killed while on the hunt, his would-be prey and his vegetarian brother decide to use the incident to their own advantage.When a son of a gangster shark boss is accidentally killed while on the hunt, his would-be prey and his vegetarian brother decide to use the incident to their own advantage.When a son of a gangster shark boss is accidentally killed while on the hunt, his would-be prey and his vegetarian brother decide to use the incident to their own advantage.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 16 nominations total
- Oscar
- (voice)
- Don Lino
- (voice)
- Angie
- (voice)
- Lola
- (voice)
- Lenny
- (voice)
- Sykes
- (voice)
- Ernie
- (voice)
- Bernie
- (voice)
- Frankie
- (voice)
- Luca
- (voice)
- Don Feinberg
- (voice)
- Katie Current
- (voice)
- Shrimp
- (voice)
- …
- Crazy Joe
- (voice)
- Shortie #1
- (voice)
- Shortie #2
- (voice)
- Shortie #3
- (voice)
- Giuseppe
- (voice)
- …
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAccording to Hans Zimmer, he told producer Jeffrey Katzenberg that he could not deal with any more epic movies, but wanted to do a fun animated movie instead, and so he got the chance to compose for this movie.
- GoofsLenny tells Frankie that he's cold because he's cold blooded. In fact, great white sharks are one of four types of shark that are warm blooded.
- Quotes
[Lenny accidentally eats Oscar]
Oscar: Don't... swallow!
Lenny: Oscar?
Oscar: No, it's Pinocchio - of course it's me! Why did you do that?
Lenny: Oh, I'm sorry...
Oscar: No, "sorry" is when you step on somebody's fin at the theatre! Yeah, that's "sorry"! "Sorry" is when you ask somebody "Hey, when's the baby due?" and it turns out the person's just fat! No, this is as far away from "sorry" as you can possibly get!
Lenny: Oscar, I think I'm gonna puke...
Oscar: Oh, no no no no... Lenny, just open up, nice and slow!
- Crazy creditsThe DreamWorks logo has the fishing boy casts his fishing line into the ocean (with the worm on the hook encountering Lenny).
- Alternate versionsFor each international release, the role of the news reporter "Katie Current" was recast to a prominent female news anchor of that country: In the Australian version it is Tracy Grimshaw, former co-anchor of the Australian Today (1982) show; in the UK version it is 'Fiona Phillips', presenter of GMTV (1993); and in the Italian version it is Cristina Parodi, anchor-woman of Verissimo (1996).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Christina Aguilera Feat. Missy Elliott: Car Wash (2004)
- SoundtracksCar Wash (Shark Tale Mix)
Written by Norman Whitfield
Contains additional lyrics by Missy Elliott (as Missy Elliott)
Performed by Christina Aguilera featuring Missy Elliott (as Missy Elliott)
Produced by Missy Elliott (as Missy Elliott) and Ron Fair
Christina Aguilera appears courtesy of The RCA Records Label
Missy Elliott appearts courtesy of The Gold Mind/Elektra Records
Contains a sample of "Car Wash"
Performed by Rose Royce
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
"Shark Tale" plays out like an amalgam of all three classic films, and has a plot that shares uncanny parallels to the current events debate about morality and homosexuality in America. The film is set in and around a coral reef that is controlled by a "Godfather"-like mob family of great white sharks. Don Lino (Robert De Niro) is as ruthless as they come, and his two sons Frankie (Michael Imperioli) and Lenny (Jack Black) both have their eyes set on controlling the family and the reef when Lino retires.
The sharks, who run their business out of a spruced-up version of the sunken Titanic, have a reputation for routinely shaking down clients and otherwise being pretty hard on the reef, but Lenny doesn't have that killer instinct in him - he's a vegetarian - and at dinner one night, he sets a shrimp free. This comes as a shock for Don Lino, as Lenny's behavior suddenly becomes a huge embarrassment for him.
On the reef, a hustling fish named Oscar (Will Smith) is aspiring to rise out of his lowly existence working at a whale wash. He's thought up a number of schemes in the past that have all failed and his closest friend is his boss's secretary Angie (Renee Zellweger), who also has a crush on him.
Things become complicated for all the characters when Frankie is accidentally killed by a fisherman's anchor being dropped on his head while he was trying to convince Lenny to be a killer shark by feasting on Oscar, who's indebted to Don Lino for a failed horse-betting scheme. Oscar, who bore witness to the whole incident, seizes the opportunity and using his boss Sykes (Martin Scorsese) as a shameless fight promoter, becomes a hero around the reef as a shark slayer, and Lenny is forced to go into hiding as a result.
"Shark Tale" is entertaining to say the least, with enough in-jokes and gags to certainly reel in unsuspecting viewers. Even though this is a children's film, there is a lot of thematic material that is just too serious to not go at all unnoticed.
The animation is beautiful (though not as good as anything done by Pixar in the last 10 years) and it really gives the deep blue that admirable quality. The voice-acting is pretty impressive too, with all of the actors doing their best, including Angelina Jolie as the gold-digging Lola.
7/10
- dee.reid
- Mar 11, 2005
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $75,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $160,861,908
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $47,604,606
- Oct 3, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $374,583,879
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix