Well. . . I wouldn't call this the worst animated movie I've ever seen, but some of the themes and jokes in this movie you have to scratch your head and wonder if they were smoking something. Like the whole "shops under water" thing, especially the sushi bar, just wasn't clever. In fact the whole movie was just people with fish suits on. The character designs are creepy, and you have to wonder what was point of making an underwater world if everybody's going to act like people. I also find the whole "urbanized" theme to be very tasteless, even if it is Will Smith's tamed down version of ghetto life. And how do fish get into traffic jams?! But it was the ending that was the final insult. At least in Finding Nemo, the whole "sharks swearing off fish" theme was funny. Here an entire school of sharks suddenly decide to become friends with the whole neighborhood. And speaking of Finding Nemo, the animation and water effects run circles around the same in Shark Tale.

A movie that was being sell for kids, but with a history aimed to adult audiences. And it won't fully please neither of the groups.

The most Holywoodish animation ever: characters to resemble the actors (what a nasty trick to attract poor I-watch-everything-that-got-famous-stars-on-it people. I hope this doesn't became a new trend or something) and dances everytime, with a lousy-poppy soundtrack. And, damn it, I just HATE when a film ends with the whole cast dancing to some stupid song sang by lousy-poppy singers. Aguilera and Missy Elliot, damn it! Oh, and fart jokes. Altogether with ugly and bad designed characters, poor animation and a predictable plot.

Run away from it.

Yeah...This film is pure garbage. The animation is bad. It really is. The story is deluded and the characters are obnoxious.

Nothing good about it. Everything an animated movie shouldn't be.

I couldn't bring myself to go see this at a theater -- it simply looked too unappealing. I eventually picked up a copy of the DVD on eBay and decided that it couldn't be as bad as what I initially thought. Boy, was I wrong. The animation itself wasn't the problem -- I thought that the animation was fairly well done. It was the storyline that destroyed this film for me. The films "hipness" -- its cultural references just didn't do anything for me. I've tried to watch this film to the end but I find that there are simply better things to do with my time than slog my way through this film. Maybe what I should do is to turn off the sound and just watch the film just for the animation itself. Maybe kids will like this film but I can't imagine any adult that would want to be stuck with this.

If you haven't seen Shark Tale, don't be distressed, you're not missing much.
Apart from the scary-looking characters, our "hero" Oscar (played by Will Smith), is not a likeable character at all. I tried to like Lola, but there was just nothing there. Well-developed villains usually do have some qualities that make them likeable in spite of the fact that they're evil, but this wasn't the case with Lola. None of the characters do much for me. Although the Rastafarian jellyfish are aesthetically clever, they're stereotypical and useless in light of the story.
Anyway, save your money for something good. Like Two-Bite Brownies.

I think that the reviews for this film are a bit on the rough side. Though Shark Tale is no classic, it's colorful, interesting visually, and breaks some new ground. I enjoyed it. I probably won't rewatch it, but but was worth watching once.

Blah. This is an okay flick, I guess. I really just enjoyed the " Godfather" puns scattered throughout. Otherwise, this doesn't really have too much to offer. I dunno, if it seems like your kind of thing, go for it.

Like Antz, Shark Tale came out the same time as a similar film, unlike Antz, I can't think of anything I liked in Shark Tale. The only thing I found was a film I wasn't comfortable with. First of, whoever came up with this film's character designs should be shot. Oscar and most of the reef fish look positively bizarre, like some mad scientist spliced humans and fish together to see what would come of it. Sure the cast look like they real-life counterparts, but it me it's a case that they look too much like them.

Secondary is Dream Works mandatory habit of using pop culture in their films without any regard to how this will effect the film in a decade or two. Pop-culture changes, movies don't and movies that rely on using it will soon look very out-of-touch. The world of Shark Tale is odd, although it's perplexing to see a reef city set up like New York's Time Square, it's not surprising.

Stereotypes abound in this film. Will Smith is essentially playing his Fresh Prince persona, the annoying, hip con-man, who doesn't realise how good life could be if he just calmed down a bit. Robert de Niro plays a crime overlord, it's as if playing Fearless Leader in Rocky and Bullwinkle wasn't enough of a comic part for him. And of course Jack Black plays an oddball, in this case a vegetarian shark. The stereotyping of the two, supposedly comical, Rastafarian jellyfish is bordering on stupidity. Sebastian the Rastafarian crab from Ariel had much more dignity than both of those two Jellyfish put together and still managed to pull of comic relief due to his character traits.

The plot is fruitless, you can't feel sorry for Oscar, cause it's his fault he in the mess he's in to begin with, he's too greedy and egocentric to be likeable, his character arch at the end seems forced and to unrealistic. Lenny's plight with his vegetarianism is fine, I like it. At least I did until he gets himself disguised as a dolphin, another carnivorous predator of the seas; not to mention that Lenny's whole setup in this movie is just a throwaway joke in Finding Nemo.

The fact that I didn't feel any empathy with the main character and that Lenny's story arch was trashed by a superior film, and mired by his choice of disguise. Ultimately the film was awkward from start to end, full of unfunny one-liners, terrible un-thought-out character design, and a completely pointless setting. And although I made a reference to Finding Nemo, even if that film hadn't came out, I would still view this film with contempt.

I hope that someday I will see a good animated film with fish as the protagonists. FINDING NEMO was just boring, but SHARK TALE did everything it could to go on my nerves. Where can I start...? Oh yes, first of all, this movie isn't very funny. DreamWorks seems to be obesessed with plastering their movies over and over with pop culture references which work in the trailers (I found the "Can't touch this" part very amusing when I saw it in the preview but the whole movie is full of jokes like these which are just annoying after a while) but are not enough for a whole movie. In my opinion the characters should get at least 50 of their humor out of the situations their get into and their character traits rather than copy something (take the Genie from Disney's ALADDIN for a good example) - it's as if the makers jumping in the face of the audience and scream: "Did you recorgnize this? Eh? Did you? Yes?! It's funny, right, because you saw it somewhere else, right?!"
Oh, and the stererotypes. Somebody call SHARK TALE slightly racist because it uses so many racial sterotypes. I wouldn't go that far. I don't think the makers of this movie are racist, they just have no ideas of their own. The jellyfish which seem to have smoked to much pot (don't ask me how they could smoke underwater but this movie doesn't care for stuff like this though), the vegetarian shark which clearly is a stand-in for a homosexual man who still has to come out of the closet, the nobody who wants to be a somebody - SHARK TALE just uses bad and boring cliches from bad and boring live action comedies and uses fish to act them out. But just because the characters in this movie are fish doesn't make all these sterotypes more interesting.
The movie seems to be kinda afraid of real emotions. When Frankie dies there's a dull joke at hand to "tame down" the situation. When Angie tells Oscar that she loved him all the time Lenny has to make something "funny" so there's no "Eww!" in the audience. What I like about Disney's best animated feautures and also DreamWorks previous works is that they know when there's time for the comic reliefs to be quiet and to create beautiful emotional scenes (the part in SHREK when they flip between Shrek and Fiona after he returned to his swamp and she went with Farquaad to his castle ist just brilliant). SHARK TALE has no such scenes (at least no one that actually works).
To be fair, SHARK TALE hast two strong points: the animation is really nice to look at and Renée Zellweger's character Angie is very entertaining. By far, she's my favourite character in this movie, all the others (especially Lola) are plain boring. Another nice thing I recordnized: the credits list three former Disney 2-D-Animators (Ken Stuart Duncan, Mike Surrey, Kathy Zielinski) who worked on this movie. It's nice to see that such great artists aren't out of work after Hollywood thinks traditional animation is dead. If only they produced a better movie than this junk...

It's far from perfect, but the humor, bright colors, and certain lovable characters (at least, I consider them lovable) cause me to still be greatly fond of this movie. It's not particularly moving in any way, and I really don't end up caring as much for Oscar or Angie as for others, but it's worth seeing.