Highly Overrated But Still Good

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The animation's not that bad actually. The voice acting and characters are pretty decent and the story's ok. There's not much to say as it's better if you watch it yourself.

For some reason this was put on for the class to watch at some point when I was at the middle school. That's the only reason I've seen this movie. I was actually a bit scared and confused as to why the animation looked so bad and why everything is so poorly done. I would not recommend watching this movie under any circumstances.

Continuing my plan to watch every Will Smith movie in order, I come to Shark Tale (2004)Plot In A Paragraph: 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 done well, animated movies can be a joy to all ages. The Toy Story trilogy, Up, Lion King, All Dogs Go To Heaven and Shrek are all in my collection. This movie seems largely forgotten about, whilst perfectly fine and well voiced, it always felt off to me. The target audience is obviously kids, but the movie is based around The Godfather. A movie very few who went to see this will have known, let alone seen. The movie doesn't follow the plot of Godfather, the problem with this story is that the movie seems to aim it at an older audience. Do kids care that Oscar wants to clear his debt with the loan sharks and become rich and famous?? Or what about the love triangle that he finds himself in?? Yawn. Too tame and dull for the adults, and there is nobody the target audience can identify with. All of the major characters are adults, with adult problems like debt, and romance, which has the characters doing way too much talking. The movie went into gross $160 million at the domestic box office, to end 2004 as the 11th highest grossing movie of the year.

Oscar (Will Smith) is a tiny prey fish working at a Whale Wash. Like everybody else, he cowers in fear of the sharks. In a freak accident, he survives a shark attack, and everybody believes that he actually killed the shark mobster's son. He encounters the shark mobster's other son Lenny (Jack Black) who is a vegetarian and they concoct a great scheme to increase his reputation as the Shark Slayer.First off, I don't like Oscar's character. Second I don't really like the Godfather motif. The animation is OK for the era, but I don't really like their faces either. The automatic comparison is to 'Finding Nemo' from a year earlier. The one word I describe Nemo is joy. This one leaves me feeling the blues. Oscar is a cynical fish, and his well being is of little importance to me. Also none of it is funny. It's just a bunch of quirky fish equivalence to the real world.