| Shark Tale is a 2004 CGI comedy produced by DreamWorks
Animation. In the story, a young fish (played by the voice of Will
Smith) falsely claims to have killed the son of a shark mob boss
to win favor with the mob boss' enemies and advance his own
community standing. The movie additionally features the voices of
Jack Black, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese, and
Robert De Niro. Its original title was Sharkslayer, but the
producers thought that this might provoke a degree of
misunderstanding among the target audience of the film, children
and families. Shark Tale is also one of the first three
feature-length films to be made into a Game Boy Advance Video. It
was released into theaters on October 1, 2004. Cast of
characters
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Will Smith as Oscar the Bluestreak cleaner wrasse, the film's
protagonist, Oscar is an underachieving worker in the Whalewash of
Reef City. He tries to get out of trouble to receive his fame but
when his boss, Sykes, orders him to get five thousand clams for
Sykes to pay off Don Lino. Oscar then has the title "Sharkslayer"
when everyone believes he killed Frankie, the oldest son of Lino.
His best friend Angie thinks that he has lied in order to get his
fame and Oscar hasn't been the same since their apparent breakup.
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Robert DeNiro as Don Lino, father of Frankie and Lenny
and the leader of a mob of criminally-inclined sharks, Lino is the
main antagonist of the film who only wants Lenny to be a killer
shark but when he thinks Oscar killed Frankie, he becomes
depressed as he knows everyone who are at the cruise ship loved
Frankie for who he is and when Lenny ran away, he sends squads to
find him. When Oscar pretends to defeat Lenny, he knows that
things have to be done and he decides to make Oscar as the
"Catch-Of-The-Day". He is a parody of Don Vito Corleone in The
Godfather.
* Renee Zellweger as Angie, an marine angelfish and Oscar's best
friend/coworker, Angie harbors a secret love for Oscar and in
order win a race for Sykes, she gives him her grandmother's pearl
to be out of debt to win the race. Soon, when Oscar owns the title
"Sharkslayer", Angie learns that Oscar lied in order to receive
his fame.
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Jack
Black as Lenny, a great white shark, Lenny isn't
normally a meat-eater---he's a vegetarian. When it comes to his
fellow sea creatures, he has locked jaws. Lenny becomes depressed
when his brother, Frankie, is killed and ran off from home where
he practically befriends Oscar. He is also the young son of Lino.
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Angelina Jolie as Lola, a seductive gold-digger lion
fish whom Oscar develops a love interest for, although it is later
found that Lola is up to no good and is only using him for his
fame and fortune.
* Martin Scorsese as Sykes, Oscar's boss, Sykes is a porcupinefish
who wants Oscar to get five thousand clams in order to pay off Don
Lino. Oscar bets the money and when the race is lost, he orders
Ernie and Bernie to send Oscar to the Wastelands. When Oscar owns
the title of "Sharkslayer", he is delighted to become his manager
and he didn't have an idea that Oscar hadn't killed Frankie, the
oldest son of Lino.
* Ziggy Marley and Doug E. Doug as Ernie and Bernie, two jellyfish
and Oscar's part-time friends, Ernie and Bernie are the two
Jamaican bodyguards and henchmen of Sykes. Ernie and Bernie are
normally different from each other and the two were possibly great
friends who work at the Whalewash. They are obsessed at playing
video games and enjoy jabbing Oscar with their vicious stingers.
Ernie and Bernie have problems with answering the calls during the
time at the Whalewash when Angie had been captured, as they kept
messing up the business' motto.
* Michael Imperioli as Frankie, the oldest, more savage son of
Lino, Frankie is Lenny's brother who normally is a killer and
always works at his father's cruise ship and always gets around to
eat. When Lenny makes up a mistake, Frankie is hired to train
Lenny to become a beastly killer and they stumble upon Oscar in
the Wastelands, Frankie tells Lenny to attack him but when Lenny
fakes the attack, Frankie becomes angry with him and after a brief
chase, he prepares to eat Oscar but he ultimately has his fate
when an anchor falls and hits him, killing him. Everyone thinks
that Oscar killed him but it wasn't truly real.
* Vincent Pastore as Luca, Lino's "left-hand, right-hand man"
thug, Luca is an octopus who typically is an idiotic kind of
person.
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Peter Falk as Don Feinberg, an 80-year-old leopard
shark who is a friend to Don Lino.
* David P. Smith as Crazy Joe, a deranged hermit crab who is
Oscar's other friend and having a "crazy attitude", he normally
lives in a dumpster near the Whalewash.
* Katie Couric, Tracy Grimshaw or Fiona Phillips as Katie Current,
the local reporter. At the time, Couric hosted the Today Show in
America. In the Australian release, then local Today Show co-host
Grimshaw dubbed the lines, as did Phillips of the UK's GM-TV for
the UK release of the film. Cristina Parodi of Italy's Verissimo
provided the Italian version of the character.
Box Office
Shark Tale grossed $47,604,606 on its opening weekend placing
itself #1. For the next two weeks, it stayed as #1 movie grossing
$31,330,299 on its second week and on its third week, the film
grossed $22,005,952. Overall, Shark Tale made $160 million
nationwide and $206 million overseas with $367 million worldwide.
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