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Why are people comparing this to Finding Nemo?
This movie is great. It's very funny and gives a good message. Like Dreamworks other movie, 'Madagascar,' it becomes too mature for its target audience, therefore this is not really a film for small children. In fact, adults and teenagers will like this one the most. I think Will Smith is very funny as Oscar - his expressions were priceless! <
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>Now why do people think this is some kind of rip off of Finding Nemo. Lets take a look at the similarities and differences: <
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>*They both had vegetarian sharks. <
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>*They both take place under the ocean. <
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>*Finding Nemo is more realistic and takes place on a reef with natural colours. Shark Tale tries a more artistic approach, making it more like a city with shops and apartments. The characters use phones, order pizzas etc. <
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>*There are no humans in ST (apart from an anchor). Whilst with FN, humans were a main part of the story. <
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>*ST is slightly more aimed at older children, teenagers and adults. <
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>*The plots are totally different. <
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>Comparing these two is like comparing apples and oranges. To be honest, I prefer Shark Tale over Finding Nemo. That's just my opinion. I think it is unfair to give Shark Tale a bad review just because it is something it was never intended to be.

This Shark tale comes from the shallow end of the CGI pond. Finding Nemo blows this out of the water
DreamWorks Shark Tale is a one-dimensional film from the shallow end of the CGI animation pool. The usual Shrek-formula mix of contemporary cartoon characters, celebrity voices, and pop culture references come together in a marginally entertaining movie with no bite. Finding Nemo blows this out of the water. <
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>The movie opens with the reef (reminiscent of Times Square) under siege by sharks (Mob types) Oscar, a fish working at the Whale wash (a derivative of the car wash from Blaxploitation classic "Car Wash")dreams of hitting it big and being a big fish. But he's lazy, irresponsible and constantly late for work. His co-worker has to punch him in and cover for him. He owes his boss five thousand clams. He gets the money but decides to bet it on a long shot at the seahorses. Meanwhile, A group of mob sharks (symbolic) are trying to get the son of the Don to "shark up" and eat a fish. They discover Oscar soon after his torture at the hands of jellyfish. A freak accident leads up to the death of one of the sharks and Oscar gets the rep of the "Shark slayer" (I find it odd there's a Mafia in the reef but no police counterpart. A sign of how poorly written this script is.) <
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>In the aftermath there's a boatload of media frenzy; Oscar is a superstar living in a penthouse. But he finds it lonely at the top. He longs for more. His house of cards starts to fall when the sensitive shark comes to Oscar for help. They stage a fight and Oscar pretends to kill him. Later, he helps him find cover as a dolphin. Oscar's girlfriend is kidnapped after his boss picks a fight with the sharks. Oscar and the sensitive shark go to face off with the sharks inside the Titanic. After an antic climatic confrontation, Oscar and the shark confess, and all is forgiven within the reef. In the End Oscar gets his girl, is promoted in his Whale wash job as a partner in the business. ????? Lie, cheat, kill, and still get rewarded in the end because you tell the truth. That's kind of a mixed message to send to kids DreamWorks. <
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>Shark Tale sinks as a movie due to its shallow screenplay. The excessive uses of pop culture references aren't clever here like they are in the Shrek movies. Instead they cover up a weak story with little depth and substance. What's sad is these pop culture references reinforce the worst stereotypes about minorities, women and ethinic groups. Even with a multi-ethnic cast, the entire animated feature comes off like a computer generated blaxploitation film. I wish the writers of Shark Tale had given the characters some of the complexity of their Pixar counterparts from Finding Nemo. The struggles of Nemo and his dad stayed with me long after the movie ended. On top of it, the sharks in that movie were so evil it was scary. <
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>The animation here is well-Meh. Compared to the beautiful 3-D CGI work Pixar did on Finding Nemo Shark Tale's computer animation falls flat. While the art design is very colorful, it lacks depth and dimension. Character movements look and feel artificial; the facial expressions are way too over exaggerated. The reef backgrounds looks and feels about as realistic as a painting or a drawing used in TV 2-D animation; this is far below the standard set in DreamWorks' Shrek movies. I dare to say the hand-drawn animation and backgrounds in DreamWorks early 2-D animated features The Prince of Egypt, Road to El Dorado and Sinbad were richer and more detailed than the ones used in this movie. <
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>Despite the all celebrities the voice over work in this one falls flat. Will Smith just does his Fresh Prince bit here like he does in all his movies. He comes off just like his sitcom character from that stale 90's sitcom. Renee Zellwegger is good as Oscar's best friend and love interest. Jack Black is decent as the sensitive shark. Doug E. Doug is flat as one of the jellyfish. Robert De Nero and Martin Scorsese, and Angelina Jolie, phone it in. Katie Couric has actually done better work on the CBS Evening news. <
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>Pass this toothless Shark tale by. Head to the deep end of the video rack and Pick up Pixar's Finding Nemo. Or get The Incredibles, Toy Story or Toy Story 2. If you want a DreamWorks Movie get The Prince Of Egypt, the Shrek Series. If you have older kids get Road To El Dorado. <
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