Shark Tale

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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. 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.

1 Plot summary
2 Cast
3 Awards
4 Trivia
5 Soundtrack Tracklisting
6 Box office
7 Movie references and spoofings
8 External links

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Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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 deep sixed, and an innocent young fish named Oscar (voiced by Will Smith) is found at the scene of the crime. A bottom-feeding hustler, Oscar takes the credit for 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 the real Sharkslayer.

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

Many Italian-American organizations protested "Shark Tale" for perpetuating negative stereotypes of Italian-Americans.

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Cast

Will Smith - Oscar, the main character, a fish that wants to be famous
Angelina Jolie - Lola, a dragonfish
Renée Zellweger - Angie, an angelfish
Robert De Niro - Don Lino, a great white shark
Martin Scorsese - Sykes, a pufferfish
Jack Black - Lenny, a vegetarian shark
Peter Falk - Don Feinberg aka Ira Feinberg
Michael Imperioli - Frankie, a shark
Vincent Pastore - Luca, an octopus
Ziggy Marley - Ernie, a jellyfish
Doug E. Doug - Bernie, a jellyfish
Katie Couric - Katie Current, a female reporter
Fiona Phillips - Katie Current, a female reporter (UK version)
Tracy Grimshaw - Katie Current, a female reporter (Australian version)
David Soren - Shrimp/Worm/Starfish #1/Killer Whale #2
David P. Smith - Crazy Joe, a hermit crab
Bobb'e J. Thompson - Shortie #1
Kamali Minter - Shortie #2
Emily Lyon Segan - Shortie #3
Lenny Venito - Giuseppe/Great White #1
Saverio Guerra - Pontrelli
Shelley Morrison - Mrs. Sanchez
Phil LaMarr - Pawn Shop Owner

Cameo Appearances

Christina Aguilera - Christina, a female jellyfish
Missy Elliott - Missy

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Awards

2004 Oscar nominated for Best Animated Feature

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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 (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 original title of the film was "Sharkslayer". However, the producers thought that the title might provoke a degree of misunderstanding among the target audience of the film - children and families.
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.
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.
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!).
While Frankie is dying, Lenny tells Frankie that the reason he feels cold is because he is cold-blooded. In actual fact, Great White Sharks are one of four warm-blooded species of shark.
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" and "Fish King". All these "products" required permission from the companies to make the logo look similar to the actual logo.