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==Goofs==
==Goofs==
* The Opening title of the movie begins with DreamWorks Animation Presente when it should have said DreamWorks Animation Presents.
* The Opening title of the movie begins with DreamWorks Animation Presente when it should have said DreamWorks Animation Presents. [[Image:Shark_tale-goof.jpg]]


==See also==
==See also==

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Shark Tale
Shark Tale film poster
Directed byBibo Bergenson, Vicki Jenson, Rob Letterman
Written byMichael J. Wilson
Rob Letterman (screenplay)
Produced byBill Damaschke, Janet Healy, Allison Lyon Segan
StarringWill Smith
Robert De Niro
Renée Zellweger
Angelina Jolie
Jack Black
Martin Scorsese
CinematographyNone
Edited byNick Fletcher (supervisor), Peter Lonsdale, John Vernon
Music byHans Zimmer
Distributed byDreamWorks Animation
Release dates
October 1, 2004
Running time
90 minutes
LanguageEnglish
Budget$75,000,000 (estimated)

Shark Tale is a computer-animated film produced by DreamWorks Animation, and was released in motion picture theatres around October 1, 2004. It stars the voices of Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese, Renée Zellweger, Jack Black and Robert De Niro. The original title for this film was Sharkslayer (However, the producers thought that the original title might provoke a degree of misunderstanding among the target audience of the film - children and families.) Shark Tale is also one of the first three feature length films to get the Game Boy Advance Video treatment.

Tagline: Behind every little fish is a great white lie.

Plot summary

Template:Spoiler The undersea underworld is shaken up when Frankie, a Great White Shark (voiced by Michael Imperioli), the son of the shark mob boss, Don Lino (voiced by Robert De Niro), and the brother of Lenny, a very nice vegetarian shark (voiced by Jack Black) is crushed by a falling anchor, and an innocent but somewhat self-centered, poverty-stricken, money hungry fish named Oscar (voiced by Will Smith) is found at the scene of the crime. A bottom-feeding hustler, Oscar takes the credit for killing the shark and saving the reef, and basks in the glory of playing the great Sharkslayer, but soon discovers that he is in way over his head. When Oscar's act threatens to sink him and the entire reef, it's up to him to face the truth and become a real Sharkslayer.

Christina Aguilera and Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott make a cameo appearance in the end of Shark Tale.

Cast

Cameo Appearances

Reception

Awards

  • 2004 Oscar nominated for Best Animated Feature

Box office

Even though only 35% of 160 critics gave it a positive review, it still managed to make $363.5m worldwide.

Crticisms and Analysis

Many Italian-American organizations protested Shark Tale for perpetuating negative stereotypes of Italian-Americans. Gay groups noted Lenny's "vegetarian" shark as an obvious metaphor for coming out of the closet, and even speculate that the character Lenny could possibly be a represenative of a gay man. A brief passing of Walter, a sperm whale voiced by Anthony Anderson triggers a few suggestive comments regarding "sperm whales", although it isn't said outright.

Movie references and spoofs

Soundtrack track listing

  1. Three Little Birds - Sean Paul and Ziggy Marley (Bob Marley)
  2. Car Wash (Shark Tale Mix) - Christina Aguilera featuring Missy Elliott (Norman Whitfileds; Missy Elliot)
  3. Good Foot - Justin Timberlake and Timbaland (Justin Timberlake; Timothy Z. Mosley)
  4. Secret Love - JoJo (Philip "Whitey" White; Jared Gosselin; Samantha "Jade" Gibbs)
  5. Lies & Rumors - D12 (D. Holton; J. Rotem; D. Porter; O. Moore; V. Carlisle; R. Johnson; M. Chavarria)
  6. Got to Be Real - Mary J. Blige featuring Will Smith (David Foster; David Paich; Cheryl Lynn)
  7. A Little Less Conversation - Elvis remixed by Junkie XL.
  8. Can't Wait - Avant (Damon E. Thomas; Antonio Dixon; Harvey W. Mason; Eric Dawkins; Steven Russell)
  9. Gold Digger - Ludacris featuring Bobby V. and Lil' Fate (Alonzo Lee; Shamar Daugherty; Christopher Bridges; Bobby Wilson; Arbie Wilson)
  10. Get It Together - India.Arie (Drew Ramsey; Shannon Sanders; India Aire Simpson; Dana Johnson; Mel Johnson)
  11. We Went as Far as We Felt Like Going - The Pussycat Dolls (Bob Crewe; Kenny Nolan)
  12. Digits - fan 3 (Allison Lurie; Paul Robb; David Clayton-Thomas; Fred Lipsius)
  13. Sweet Kind of Life - Cheryl Lynn (James Harris; III & Terry Lewis; Cheryl Lynn; Bobby Ross Avila; Issiah J. Avila; Tony Tolbert; James Q. Wright)
  14. Some of My Best Friends Are Sharks - Hans Zimmer (Hans Zimmer)

Trivia

  • The voice-actor for reporter Katie Current is specially chosen in each country, to be a nationally recognized news reporter. In the Australian version, Tracy Grimshaw (former co-anchor of the Australian Today Show) voices Katie. In the German version Frauke Ludowig, an anchor of RTL Television, plays the role and in the UK version, Fiona Phillips (co-anchor of GMTV) plays Katie.
  • The headquarters of the sharks is intended to represent the RMS Titanic. In one scene, the picture of Rose DeWitt Bukater from the film Titanic can be seen hanging on the wall, although she is clothed because of content reasons. In another scene, Don Ira Feinberg asks, "Any requests? How about that Titanic song?" This is probably a reference to the theme from Titanic, "My Heart Will Go On". During the film credits, Lenny is seen sitting on a barstool in front of a painting of the Titanic. In another reference to the Titanic at Frankie's funeral he is seen in a life ring with the words "Titanic" written on it.
  • After Oscar has defeated Lenny, the crowd chants "Oscar Bumaye". In the film Ali, in which Will Smith plays the leading role, the crowd chants "Ali Bumaye" during the boxing match in Zaire. [This a reference to the real-life Rumble in the Jungle in which Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman ("Bumaye" is a Congolese word roughly translated into English as "knock 'em dead.")
  • While fighting the sharks, Oscar quotes lines from the films Gladiator (Are you not entertained?), A Few Good Men (You can't handle the truth!) and Jerry Maguire (You had me at hello!) After the fight he says "yippee-ki-yay" from the movie "Die Hard."
  • The characters' looks were based off of the actual actors who provided the voices of their character.
  • Oscar was a mix of purple, yellow, and green: a nod to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Logo which starred actor Will Smith.
  • While Frankie is dying, Lenny tells Frankie that the reason he feels cold is because he is cold-blooded which is why Frankie slaps him with his last strength and calls him a "moron" with his dying breath. In actual fact, Great White Sharks are one of four warm-blooded species of shark.
  • When Oscar tries to avoid being taken to Sykes' office in the Whale Wash by Sykes' henchmen, the rastafarian jellyfish Bernie and Ernie, he sings a hip-hop version of "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley. At that point Ernie zaps him and says, "That's not how you sing the song, man." Ernie is voiced by Marley's son Ziggy Marley who coincidentally does an updated version of the song on the soundtrack with Sean Paul.
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  • The film is notable for its unique approach of representing the typical human lifestyle and associated pop cultures in an underwater environment. The film crew refer to this style as 'Fishification'. Examples of 'fishified' products in the film include "Coral Cola", "Gup", "`O`Mints, ""Guppy Kreme, and "Fish King". All these "products" required permission from the companies to make the logo look similar to the actual logo.
  • At the horse racing scene where Oscar mistakingly hits on Mrs. Sanchez, the back of Mrs. Sanchez's newspaper advertises a film called 'The Hook' which has a logo which looks similar to the film The Ring.
  • When a preview disc for Shrek 2 came out, this movie was titled as, "Sharkslayer".
  • The film makes references to mafia movies like The Godfather (when Oscar says, "Why? Is he like the Godfather or something?" to which Lenny replies, "Yeah.") and Scarface (when the shrimp says to Don Lino, "Say hello to my little friends!") However, in Scarface, Tony Montana says "friend," instead of "friends."
  • The character Crazy Joe presumably watches the Benny Hill Show, as indicated by the music coming from his shell as he watches his show.
  • The shark mob's hideout which is supposedly the Titanic, is situated on an underwater cliff. In reality, the Titianic is on a flat part of the ocean floor.
  • During Frankie's funeral, Frankie is dumped overboard the shipwreck and begins to float up to the surface. In reality, sharks do not have air sacs like other fish, therefore they do not float belly up when they die.
  • A news reporter toward the beginning of the movie reports the traffic on Interreef 95, obviously the underwater take on Interstate 95.

Goofs

  • The Opening title of the movie begins with DreamWorks Animation Presente when it should have said DreamWorks Animation Presents. File:Shark tale-goof.jpg

See also

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