2004 · animation · action · comedy
Shark Tale
Directed by Vicky Jenson1h 30m2004
Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great white shark with a surprising secret that no sea creature would guess: He's a vegetarian. When a lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and Lenny becomes an outcast, the two form an unlikely friendship.
Our read: Shark Tale (2004) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · action · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured animation / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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How Shark Tale feels to watch.
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“You want mobster-fish cartoon parody with celebrity voices and undersea gag density.”
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