Pretty Good

Fresh and Exciting

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

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This was one of my childhood movies. Watching it again I'm just as entertained as I was when I was 6. It's just great. Sad that Dreamworks is not making movies like this and Shrek anymore.

Some people think that this movie, is just trash. Maybe... maybe. But i would like to say, what other movie can boast a fish, that becomes friends with a shark, that then work together to help save a car wash. You don't see plots like that in transformers do you? Well, it is transformers, and not a fish film. BUT, ITS SHARK TALE. If you think shark tale is uninspired, you know what. your uninspired. Shark Tale is a masterpiece, you snobs just don't know what art is.

While Shark Tale is not that original, it works. I thought it was alright.Shark Tale was one of my childhood movies and I just rewatched it. It's a fair tale but it's not that good. What I liked was the atmosphere, the characters, the animation and the message (although it's far from original).My favourite part of this movie is the atmosphere. There's lots of energy and it goes really well with the awesome underwater city setting. That city is very lively and it gives the movie some energy. The setting is also really good like I mentioned.The characters are also all very good. Will Smith is the best. He plays the main character and he's pretty good. Everyone else is also good.The animation is pretty good. It's no Zootopia or The Croods but it's pretty good.The movie's message is to be yourself and it's a really good message. The problem here is that it's not the best showcase of this message. If you have three movies with this message and Shark Tale is one of them, you'll probably choose one of the two others. Shark Tale doesn't do much wrong but it just doesn't bring enough new stuff. It's a fun movie and I really liked the ending but it's ultimately just another animation movie.

This lame comedy feels like it was written by studio executives, capitalizing on the latest trends. The pop culture references are stale and weak, I mean who was making MC Hammer jokes in 2004? Like Pixar's Cars, the whole idea makes no sense. How are there complicated electronics like video games and TVs working underwater? How do lava lamps work underwater? The endless fish puns are insufferable too (Mussel Crowe? Ha. Ha.) Most of the anthropomorphic character designs of the fish are weird and off putting. And Will Smith's fish protagonist is too thoughtless and uncaring to be sympathetic. Another problem is the tired "Go to the big city story". How many times have we seen this played out trope which has a bumbling but likable hero who has big plans and dreams of going to the big city, or moving up in the world. Flick from Pixar's A Bug's Life wanted to go to bug city and be somebody, Rodney from 2005's Robots wanted to go to Robot City and be an inventor. And here we have Will Smith fish, who wants to be a somebody. The actual dialogue is "I'm a small fish in a big ocean". How lazy can you get?The positives? Some of the music is cool, the animation is OK, and I liked Martin Scorsese as a puffer fish, he actually makes this tolerable to sit through. Apart from that, this stinks like decomposing cod.