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Shark Tale is a computer-animated movie produced by DreamWorks Animation, and was released in movie 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 movie was is also one of the first three feature length movies to get the Game Boy Advance Video treatment.table
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 brother of the so so cute Lenny, a very nice vegetarian shark (voiced by Jack BlackShark Tale is deep sixed, and an innocent young fish named Oscar (voiced by Will SmithShark Tale 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 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 Titanic. In one scene, the picture of Rose from the film , in which Will Smith plays the leading role, the crowd chants "Ali Bumaye" during the boxing match in Zaire.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. 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.Even though only 35% of 160 critics gave it a positive review, it still managed to make $363.5m worldwide making it another smash for DreamWorks. |
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