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Shark Tales

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Village Vidiot

Little Bronwen and her friend Katherine liked this story of a fish world at the bottom of a reef with its shark mobster rulers and its timid fish and crustaceans. The adults in the room didn’t like it. It’s nowhere near as good as “Finding Nemo”. The hero, Will Smith’s Oscar, works at a whale wash (they’re literally playing Car Wash) and Renee Zellwenger (the clerk at the ww) is in love with him. You throw in a vegetarian shark (Jack Black) who doesn’t want to take over father Robert DeNiro’s mob empire and control over the fishes, with aid of blowfish Martin Scorcese who is also Oscar’s boss. Anyway, Oscar claims to have killed a great white shark (the vegetarian’s brother) and this leads to a battle. Throw in Angelina Jolie as the sultry “Lola,” a fish only out for Oscar’s newfound fame and fortune, and you’ve got something that just doesn’t work. The technology of the fish world is painflul compared to the silly simplicity Nemo’s ocean. Don’t bother unless the kids need something colorful to watch. The one really bright spot are the jellyfish thugs played by Ziggy Marley and Doug E Doug who do the rasta bit and silliness that works. Oh well, if you have to sit through it be sure to catch the fun music/dance number after the credits at the end

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