![]() ![]() Lola kisses Oscar on camera, making Angie jealous. ![]() The next day, Oscar and Lenny stage a battle involving Oscar "fighting" off Lenny, thus cementing Oscar's popularity and making the sharks believe that Lenny has been killed too, infuriating Lino. Angie soon finds out about Oscar's lie and threatens to tell everyone, but he and Lenny convince her to be quiet. Oscar encounters Lenny who, aware of Oscar's lie, begs Oscar to let him stay at his place to avoid returning to his father. ![]() At the same time, Lino has everyone search for Lenny and the "Sharkslayer". Sykes becomes Oscar's manager and forgives his debt, and Oscar moves to the "top of the reef" to live in luxury. With no other witnesses, Oscar takes credit for killing Frankie and quickly rises in fame as the "Sharkslayer". Devastated and blaming himself for his brother's demise, Lenny leaves. Furious and fed up with his brother's tenderness, Frankie charges at Oscar, but suddenly an anchor from above the surface falls on his neck, killing him. While the two shock a tied-up Oscar, Frankie sees them and urges Lenny to eat Oscar, but Lenny instead frees Oscar and tells him to escape. Sykes loses his temper and orders his two Jamaican jellyfish enforcers, Ernie and Bernie, to deal with Oscar. Lucky Day, which revealed that the race was rigged against him, eventually takes the lead, only to trip and lose short of the finish line. Sykes is annoyed that Oscar bet the money, but he hopes that Oscar might win. A lion fish gold digger named Lola sees this and flagrantly seduces Oscar. One day, Oscar brings the money from the pearl to a seahorse race to meet Sykes, but hears that the race is rigged and bets it all on a seahorse named "Lucky Day". Meanwhile, Don Lino, the boss of a mob gang of sharks, orcas, sailfish, and octopuses, which Sykes works for, dislikes that his son Lenny is a vegetarian, and orders his eldest son, Frankie, to mentor Lenny. His best friend, an angelfish named Angie, offers him a pearl that was a gift from her grandmother to pawn and pay his debt. In the Southside Reef, a lonely Bluestreak cleaner wrasse named Oscar, who, in his childhood, dreamed to be a tongue-scrubber at the Whale Wash, like his late father Earl until his classmates cruelly made fun of him for it, fantasizes about being rich and famous, but owes money to his boss and the Whale Wash's owner, a pufferfish named Sykes. It was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 77th Academy Awards, but lost to Pixar's The Incredibles. Advocacy groups criticized the film for its use of Italian-American stereotypes, while other critics noted younger audiences may get confused as it loosely satirizes Mafia films released over 30 years prior. ![]() The film received mixed reviews from film critics, who praised the voice performances and animation, but criticized its story, flat humor, and overall unoriginality. It made $374.6 million worldwide against its $75 million budget, finishing its theatrical run as the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2004. Shark Tale premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 10, 2004, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 1. Oscar teams up with the mobster's younger son Lenny (Black) to keep up the facade. It tells the story of an underachieving fish named Oscar (Smith), who falsely claims to have killed the son of a shark mob boss in an attempt to advance his community standing. The film features an ensemble cast that includes the voices of Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, and Martin Scorsese. The film was directed by Vicky Jenson, Bibo Bergeron, and Rob Letterman (in his feature directorial debut), from a screenplay written by Letterman and Michael J. Shark Tale is a 2004 American computer-animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. ![]()
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