2006 · animation · family
Shark Bait
Directed by Howard E. Baker, Kyung Ho Lee, John Fox1h 17m2006
After losing everything, a young fish, Pi, goes to live with his family on the Reef. There he meets the love of his life but finds that she already has the unwanted affections of a bully shark. He must follow his destiny to save her and rid the Reef of this menace for good.
Our read: Shark Bait (2006) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded animation · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
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