+D Vass Honestly, Oscar (Will Smith Fish) was so unlikable, that even as a kid watching it, I thought he was terrible. I legitimately felt sorry for Robert De Niro Shark (I forgot his actual name), and was more invested in his side of the story. If the film was about him and Oscar was the villain, I actually think this would have been better. Add in the subplot with annoying-voice Lenny drama of him being against his father. As is? It sucks. And yes, it definitely deserves a Nostalgia Critic Review, especially since, while I didn't like the film, I have some nostalgia from watching this film as a third-grader.
i never got the whole, getting really big-name celebrities to do voice acting in children's animated films. it would make a lot more sense to me to get professionally trained voice actors, because they'll deliver their lines better, will probably do the work for less pay than a superstar actor, and kids don't care about the voice actors, because they don't know who half of them are, depending on their age.
+Cal Maybe parents do and they're like "Hey i've seen this guy before and i like his acting, i won't be bored out of my mind when i bring my kids to see it"?
i don't know, to me that just seems like an admission of the fact that you're bad at making movies. it definitely makes sense to do it for that reason, but at that point, i think you need to go back to the drawing board
+Cal Anime does this ALL THE TIME. They'll hire the "big-name" VAs which are practically their celebrities over there instead of the ones trying to get work. The industry is all the same across the board when it comes to animation.
Sometimes there are famous people who do such great voice work and breathe life into their characters. (ie. Jack Black as Po, Steve Carrell as Gru, Robin Williams as Genie)
+Cal Marketing. Sadly, a lot of people see animated movies as just kid's stuff, so having big name actors draw in more of the average joes out there. It's slowly being edged out since they look more for actors that can fit the voices more, and lots of great animated movies use this gimmick, but yeah, there's always cases like this that just gets big names for the sake of drawing in more people
Isn't it kinda ironic that Jack Black played both Lenny and Po who are literally black-and-white animal characters from Dreamworks films? I just find that pretty coincidental.
Yes! In fact they have a few things in common in terms of their appearances and personalities Appearance: Both characters are black and white and have green eyes Personality: a bit clumsy, very bubbly, big kids at heart, kind hearted and also emotionally sensitive (some traits I can relate to on a personal level)
Jack Black-Shark is a vegetarian shark, so....he decides to disguise himself as a....dolphin? *Did the wastes of functioning organs who wrote this movie not know that dolphins are carnivores, too?*
+ElectricMayhem87 (Ashleigh) Not only that, but a shark's main diet consists of seals, not fish. Dolphins would be a million times more dangerous to fish than sharks would.
You know something else? A lot of people say Lenny being a vegetarian is a metaphor for homosexuality. If that was the intention, then it's a very thinly veiled metaphor. (Add that to the list of things wrong with this film.)
Agreed. They look very poorly rendered and doesn't even look like they're underwater. Finding Nemo was finished 2 years before this movie came out and it still looks beautiful.
How is it that you put out animations that last 2 minutes from weeks to months at a time yet they look great while this movie is in production for god knows how long and millions of dollars backing it yet it still looks like crap?
This film will forever be my guilty pleasure. I like it less now that I am older, but it's still in my list of movies I know it's bad, but I will like them.
James Stone Well, to be fair, The Lego Movie was a different year, so that’s not exactly the best argument (though I do agree that it’s fucking stupid). A better argument for this is that The Polar Express wasn’t nominated, which pisses me the hell off because it’s an underrated masterpiece.
@@nozinuclear9490 I know right. Its like The Oscars nominated John Williams Music from The movie Angela's Ashes instead of Star Wars The Phantom Menace. And that movies music is SO MUCH BETTER than the music from Angela's Ashes that arent any Oscar worthy. STUPID nominators!
I am bothered by that too, but I grew to accept that the Academy people can nominate or win whatever they want as long as they don't win the worse thing consistently every single time. As Ana from Bojack Horseman said, Academy awards like the Oscars and the Emmys are not about who is best. It just means you are one of the special people. March 11, 2020, 10:28pm
Imagine how much better this movie could be if Robert De Niro Shark was the main character. The premise could be almost the same with Will Smith Fish pretending to kill his son and Jack Black Shark running away and end up joining him. Will Smith Fish could be the villian of the story so him being a dick would make sense. The story could be about Rober De Niro Shark coming to terms with the fact that his son is gone while trying to get revenge and find his other son. The ending could also be similar as well, with the Sharks learning to accept each other and Will Smith Fish being discovered as a liar and Robert De Niro Shark forgiving him. Fix the designs of the characters some and this could actually be quite decent...
+Cosmic Maybe that's what they originally intended? I don't know. This movie is pretty bad, but i imagine it could've started out with good intentions but was then stifled by boards and CEOs.
Watch. Will Smith is going to boycott against Doug Walker and he will say "I am not a disgusting fish and I'm being praise for against the Academy Awards for not supporting as black actors that we get credit along with my wife who just said that is true." I wanted to see that! 😄😄😄😄😄
+Video Game Drummer Productions you're one of the only people who hate these films when they were kids, guess you could see the crap better than most of us could.
the entire shark tale review but every time doug says "will smith fish" we are number one plays and every time they say one the nutshack theme plays and every time they say nutshack the entire bee movie script is read and every time they say bee they play the fresh prince of bel air theme
Gardetrace Same thing but I slept through the first half and I was kind of scared of watching it but I guess more because it was more because I was in Honey I Shrunk The Audience and it scared the crap out of me
I think that most of us can agree that this is definitely Dreamworks' bottom of the barrel. Say all you want about Shrek 3 'killing the franchise, at least that film was only a less-than-average film comming off the heels of a amazing 2nd film and it had more reddeming qualties. This on the other hand is just a downright pain to sit through. While nowhere as abysmal as Foodfight or (God Forbid) Where The Dead Go To Die, it's still really painful with one of the worst protagonists ever, crammed with dated pop songs, blatant product placement, tasteless and unfunny jokes, disgusting character design, the clichéd story, and the fact this came off the heels of Shrek 2 is just mind-boggoling. I'm glad Jack Black and Angelena Jole redeemed themselves in Kung Fu Panda, but I do hope Will Smith could return for another Dreamworks film to reddem himself.
Alex Ramirez 100% agree. And yet this film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature over The Polar Express, which is a WAY better film than Shark Tale in every single capacity possible.
@@ZemeckisTEN No, the real film that got gipped was Howl's Moving Castle. Anything by Studio Ghibli is usually better than most of what Hollywood puts out in the animated department. Even their worst film is still way better than most of Dreamwork's worst.
@@cleverpsyche115 I kinda get where your coming from. And honestly, Studio Ghibli's worst films like Earwig and Tales from Earthsea are bad, but not a complete chore. They are more or less just passable waste of time. But the worst of Dreamworks and Sony can be simply unbearable. At least, that's how it is for me.
I remember this being one of the first movies I watched in cinema without my parents. Halfway through we were so bored that we left and simply walked into another theater to watch The Incredibles.
The two jellyfish characters is what got us falling in love with Jellyfishes in the first place. We remember them more than any other character in the film. They're cool! And yeah, The movie is okay. But it IS kind of a clever idea. :)
Will smith fish is a cow, but then they find out the THE FARM IS BEING CLOSED DOWN! So the cows figure if they can bring this bandit to justice, they can use the reward money to save the Jewish people.
"Will Smith fish is SCARY. I'm just putting that out there right now. Will Smith, as a fish, is fucking disgusting." I already saw this review but I had to come back to this one again just to hear Doug's hilarious rant on how shit this thing looks. Despite the fact that, when I was a kid, my mum told me to go stand outside instead of in, y'know, THE NEXT ROOM, when I said I didn't want to watch this lousy movie; that was just because the sharks scared me as opposed to the aquatic incarnation of Will Smith, and I thought that in the vein of the Garfield adaption the shitty writing was an acquired taste that I'd understand when I was older. I grew up with great films Dreamworks' pals at Aardman, along with a mixture of decent films by studios like Dreamworks or Disney, and yet there was a small place reserved for crummy films like this that I'd watch again and again in hopes of enjoying them. Anywho, I just came to watch Doug bash this awful film some more.
I was forced to see this one in theaters, and while it wouldn’t be the last time, it was the first time I ever squirmed with boredom the entire time at the movie theater. Hated it then. Hate it now.
This was one of the first movies I actually held a soft spot for when I was a kid, not to mention I didn't know most of the actors that played those roles. At the time, it was pretty comedic and I thought transport NYC underwater was a genius choice. Now that time has passed, I suppose it hasn't aged as well as I thought.
I loved this film. And even to this day I still enjoy it and will always defend it. The animation is really good and has aged perfectly and it just overall is really enjoyable and I would even go as far as saying I like it just as much as finding nemo.
I always kind of got that vibe, like, "Oh I don't want to eat fish" always meant "No, dad, I don't want to marry a girl shark and have shark kids, and take over your shark empire. I WANT TO BE A DANCER"
The only reason this movie is set underwater is because Finding Nemo was a hit a year earlier. The underwater setting literally has nothing to do with the plot, so they try to justify it with fish puns. When you have to justify your setting with puns and not with... I don't know, THE FREAKING STORY, you know you fucked up.
The only parts of this film I liked were the shark moments, I was genuinely fascinated by their story to the point where I wish this film was about them like a Mafia story of some sharks and orcas muscling in on Don Lino's territory, Frankie gets killed and Lenny has to lead the sharks while trying to maintain his vegetarianism. Not to toot my own horn, but you could've had a dramatic DreamWorks movie predating Kung-Fu Panda and How To Train Your Dragon, but nope... we get Will Smith Fish. Yay.
I'm surprised he didn't point out the fact that the underwater world is a mixture of Spongebob's world and ours: JAWS movie poster, New York style, and Coca-Cola. Loved it as a kid but seeing it right now not so much.
Also, this movie came out in 2004: - a year after Finding Nemo - the same year as the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and of said series' 5th anniversary - when Jaws turned 29.
My brother and I still say "I'm not a loser, I'm a wiener" whenever we can get away with it. It's the only thing we can remember from the film and it still cracks us up.
Because the film Sinbad movie bombed, cause a huge bankruptcy, people says that Nemo is way beautiful, and DreamWorks force itself to end 2D animation in their cartoon division.. DAMN if only we could bring back the 2D ANIMATION
I don't know, I still find Bee Movie to be worse, although I know the nostalgia critic liked it. They were putting on Bee Movie a few weeks ago and my siblings sat down to watch just to laugh at how terrible it was.
That’s most likely what the directors/writers thought instead; a naïve, cheap ingratiation of what negroes will find likable, it’s embarrassingly obvious
I remember watching this movie all the freaking time when I was little. I remember seeing Will Smith's face when I grew up and thinking he looked like Oscar from Shark Tale lmaooooo. Only in like 2010 did I look up the cast and see it was really him.
Jesus, I remember when this movie came out. I was working at Costco in the meat department and everytime I went to break or lunch, it would be playing on all the TV's in the electronic section for about 3 - 4 months on repeat when I would walk past to clock in and out. I never saw the whole thing from start to finish, only bits and pieces and saw it in countless shopping carts as people where shopping in the store.
I like this film. There I said it. Also, in the UK version, Katie Current is vocied by Fiona Phillips. Of course, because she isn't voiced by Katie Couric, the joke doesn't really work. I didn't even realize there was a joke there until I saw the copy owned by my old primary school during the after school club they held.
You know what's interesting we have this on dvd and I liked this when I was younger. Looking back, I have no idea what part of this actually appealed to me
Shark tale was pretty much my childhood, I watched it all the time and so I'll always have that respect for it cause I loved it so much as a little kid. But I haven't seen it since then, so maybe I'm just being nostalgic (irony) when I think of it as a good film
This was back when Dreamworks switched from stylistic original 2D films such as Prince of Egypt and El Dorado and started doing what I suppose were middle fingers from Katzenberg to Disney and Pixar hence Antz and Shrek. I kinda liked this movie as a kid but now that I'm older it's really embarrassing. The pop culture jokes and the catchphrases are just SAD ("Raise the Reef, Shark-Slayer, Shell-phones, Seahorse racing") Finding Nemo for me is one of the most timeless animated films despite it being set in 2003. It's my second favourite animated film and ranks number 4 on my top 10 favourite films of all time. The reason? Well, not only is the story incredibly well written and executed and the characters all fleshed out and identifiable, not only the animation beautiful, and the dialogue having little to no pop culture references, but it's one of the only animated films to have no villain. It's just humans being humans and animals being animals, all surviving. The sharks in that film I'm really impressed with because Pixar got the true nature of sharks down to a T. Scary and intimidating, but mellow and non-threatening. Respectful and laid back but instincts kick in if blood is smelled. Here, when you have the "Shark Mafia," it seems silly in comparison. (not that I'm against Robert De Niro's shark, he's actually the best character in the movie and everybody else is a dumbass!) but yeah I think Finding Nemo is a way better film because it portrays what a "sea community" would look like, how news would travel and what the fish would do in their daily life. Plus what makes Marlin a likeable, sympathetic character is his past, his will, his caring paternal instinct, his determination and his bravery even when he was terrified to go thousands of miles along the Australian coast to rescue his son. Oscar is a despicable excuse for a character! He's lazy, arrogant, takes credit for someone's death, bets his friend's heirloom on the races and acts tough when really he can't do shit. The message of Finding Nemo is that the world is beautiful and dangerous and our children must grow up to be careful but not fear it. The message of Shark Tale is if you lie you become a celebrity. I would say this is the worst Dreamworks film, but Trolls is coming out so it's technically the second. Oh and don't be surprised if we have an Inside Out knock off from them called "Taste Buddies."
You know, when I rewatched the movie I almost had the impression they made the sharks mobsters to make them appear as the usual villains so Oscar would have seemed more likeable compared to them (I see, but if the sharks don’t do any villainous act while Oscar causes more chaos and problems than all of them put together, then don’t be surprised if most of the audience hate him)
When I was a kid and we saw this in theaters, I missed a good 1/3rd of the movie because nobody realized that there was like another half hour of movie after the credits rolled... and ANOTHER 10 minutes after the second credits rolled. Who honestly thought that was a good idea?
They should've called it The Fish Prince of Shell-Air.
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+ThatNerdGirl 7 Touché. ;)
+Kaagh178 Don't tell me what to do, nana
nice
Kill...
I know he didn't mean it but he said
"he's selfish"
selfish
sel-fish
lol
+Nico Pascualino sel-fish
shell-fish
+Nico Pascualino maybe he mean it ^^
+Nico Pascualino Hey Joel. How is Ellie doing?
selfish.... fish
This movie needs the Nostalgia Critic treatment.
+D Vass Honestly, Oscar (Will Smith Fish) was so unlikable, that even as a kid watching it, I thought he was terrible. I legitimately felt sorry for Robert De Niro Shark (I forgot his actual name), and was more invested in his side of the story. If the film was about him and Oscar was the villain, I actually think this would have been better. Add in the subplot with annoying-voice Lenny drama of him being against his father. As is? It sucks. And yes, it definitely deserves a Nostalgia Critic Review, especially since, while I didn't like the film, I have some nostalgia from watching this film as a third-grader.
D Vass I agree. this movie was terrible!
D Vass definitely. Doug seriously needs to consider this
Agreed
Andrew Heaney don lino is the name of robert de niro shark
i never got the whole, getting really big-name celebrities to do voice acting in children's animated films. it would make a lot more sense to me to get professionally trained voice actors, because they'll deliver their lines better, will probably do the work for less pay than a superstar actor, and kids don't care about the voice actors, because they don't know who half of them are, depending on their age.
+Cal Maybe parents do and they're like "Hey i've seen this guy before and i like his acting, i won't be bored out of my mind when i bring my kids to see it"?
i don't know, to me that just seems like an admission of the fact that you're bad at making movies. it definitely makes sense to do it for that reason, but at that point, i think you need to go back to the drawing board
+Cal Anime does this ALL THE TIME. They'll hire the "big-name" VAs which are practically their celebrities over there instead of the ones trying to get work. The industry is all the same across the board when it comes to animation.
Sometimes there are famous people who do such great voice work and breathe life into their characters. (ie. Jack Black as Po, Steve Carrell as Gru, Robin Williams as Genie)
+Cal Marketing. Sadly, a lot of people see animated movies as just kid's stuff, so having big name actors draw in more of the average joes out there. It's slowly being edged out since they look more for actors that can fit the voices more, and lots of great animated movies use this gimmick, but yeah, there's always cases like this that just gets big names for the sake of drawing in more people
Isn't it kinda ironic that Jack Black played both Lenny and Po who are literally black-and-white animal characters from Dreamworks films? I just find that pretty coincidental.
Yes! In fact they have a few things in common in terms of their appearances and personalities
Appearance: Both characters are black and white and have green eyes
Personality: a bit clumsy, very bubbly, big kids at heart, kind hearted and also emotionally sensitive (some traits I can relate to on a personal level)
This was nominated for Best Animated Feature... how
It's the same awards show that lets Seth MacFarlane be a host. What did you expect?
The Academy doesn't care about Animation and that is why this got a Oscar Nom
+LegendsP at leas is didn't win
Welp, it was popular. :)
+N. C. So was the Lego movie. Actually the Lego movie was way popular and it wasn't nominated. I don't get the Oscars sometime.
Jack Black-Shark is a vegetarian shark, so....he decides to disguise himself as a....dolphin?
*Did the wastes of functioning organs who wrote this movie not know that dolphins are carnivores, too?*
The people behind Spongebob have a better understanding of sea life than these clowns.
+ElectricMayhem87 (Ashleigh) Not only that, but a shark's main diet consists of seals, not fish. Dolphins would be a million times more dangerous to fish than sharks would.
+Bryant Langmuir Well considering spongebob was created by a marine biologist, you're right.
WesternWolfWarrior Yep. But people don't see it that way, since dolphins are "cute" (I think sharks are pretty cute, personally).
You know something else? A lot of people say Lenny being a vegetarian is a metaphor for homosexuality. If that was the intention, then it's a very thinly veiled metaphor. (Add that to the list of things wrong with this film.)
My GOD this animation did NOT age well!
Agreed. They look very poorly rendered and doesn't even look like they're underwater. Finding Nemo was finished 2 years before this movie came out and it still looks beautiful.
+andrewkful it looks like those foreign-made CG films you see listed on netflix; the ones that are blatant rip-offs of other popular animated movies.
+andrewkful
The characters look like they rendered CGI concept art for them and never finished adding texture/details.
How is it that you put out animations that last 2 minutes from weeks to months at a time yet they look great while this movie is in production for god knows how long and millions of dollars backing it yet it still looks like crap?
*****
Different tools, different talent and background, and I .... want things to look GOOD.
this looks worse than i remember.
I agree
Seconded
+Dem Yeah and i watched this last year (We were going o a feld trip at school it was like 3 hours away)
+Dem all i rememeber from it was the whale car wash thing lol but after seeing this reviews it seems that whale bit is a little scene.
+Dem I was just thinking the same thing
This movie is a guilty pleasure for me. Especially since it came out on my birthday.
+Phosyll Dude, it's not my birthday.
+MegaSoulhero I'm sorry Dreamworks gave you a shitty birthday present and that you can't exchange it.
+MegaSoulhero When is your birthday?
+Sebastien O. October 1st
+Phosyll Are you some kind of idiot?
This film will forever be my guilty pleasure. I like it less now that I am older, but it's still in my list of movies I know it's bad, but I will like them.
Same here
Same
Same
I respect your opinion.
+Thomas Lawson I'm in the club too. If it's on TV and nothing else is on it's not like I'm going to turn off the TV. I'm probably going to watch it.
"Will Smith-fish is scary! Will Smith as a fish is fucking disturbing!" I just lost it there 😂
He has a name, oscar.
This movie was Oscar nominated for Best Animated Feature. The Lego Movie wasn't. Let that sink in for a moment.
Well then.
People don't know what quality is
James Stone Well, to be fair, The Lego Movie was a different year, so that’s not exactly the best argument (though I do agree that it’s fucking stupid). A better argument for this is that The Polar Express wasn’t nominated, which pisses me the hell off because it’s an underrated masterpiece.
What’s worse is what it got nominated over. The Polar Express And Spongebob.
@@nozinuclear9490 I know right. Its like The Oscars nominated John Williams Music from The movie Angela's Ashes instead of Star Wars The Phantom Menace. And that movies music is SO MUCH BETTER than the music from Angela's Ashes that arent any Oscar worthy. STUPID nominators!
I am bothered by that too, but I grew to accept that the Academy people can nominate or win whatever they want as long as they don't win the worse thing consistently every single time. As Ana from Bojack Horseman said, Academy awards like the Oscars and the Emmys are not about who is best. It just means you are one of the special people. March 11, 2020, 10:28pm
Imagine how much better this movie could be if Robert De Niro Shark was the main character. The premise could be almost the same with Will Smith Fish pretending to kill his son and Jack Black Shark running away and end up joining him. Will Smith Fish could be the villian of the story so him being a dick would make sense. The story could be about Rober De Niro Shark coming to terms with the fact that his son is gone while trying to get revenge and find his other son. The ending could also be similar as well, with the Sharks learning to accept each other and Will Smith Fish being discovered as a liar and Robert De Niro Shark forgiving him. Fix the designs of the characters some and this could actually be quite decent...
Plus it's called "Shark Tale" not "Fish Tale" so make it about the Sharks!
+Cosmic Maybe that's what they originally intended? I don't know. This movie is pretty bad, but i imagine it could've started out with good intentions but was then stifled by boards and CEOs.
Interesting idea
No one has ever made so much sense... Why wasn't this done?
Did he "kill" the shark, or "jumped" the shark?
into
Both
You have to be initially good before you jump the shark. Shark Tale was never good.
Badum tss!
Zing!
"Will Smith fish is scary!" understatement of the century Doug! 🤣
I have a weird soft spot in my heart for this movie, but I do agree, the animation did not age well.
Side note: As a kid, the video game was HARD AF.
+BCkhaos I had the video game!!! It was awesome... But the dancing parts were hell xD
+MsLallina I share your pain XD
I never finished that game. The difficulty ramped up on those dancing segments.
I really like this movie!
Funny to hear that it was a hard game- the over the hedge game was probably the easiest video game I’ve ever played
Will Smith looking at this and facepalm himself.
+nikosafer1 I think this movie is filled under Will Smith's biggest regrets. It's like right underneath writing and starring in After Earth
+Irish Bulldog Don't forget wicky wicky wah wah Wild Wild West
Oh god that movie was horrible but I kind of excuse it cause it's one of those movies where it's so horrible it's funny
+nikosafer1
Better than After Earth.
The facepalm from that would be deadly.
Watch. Will Smith is going to boycott against Doug Walker and he will say "I am not a disgusting fish and I'm being praise for against the Academy Awards for not supporting as black actors that we get credit along with my wife who just said that is true."
I wanted to see that! 😄😄😄😄😄
Ahhh yes Dreamwork's half-assed attempt to make Finding Nemo. I still can't believe I liked this movie once upon a time.
some of these bad films used to be my favorites when I was a kid but looking at them now, they're quite crap
Same haha I used to love shark tale then tried watching it again and now I can't stand this movie.
+JPOG7 TV I hated the film as a 9-year-old.
+Video Game Drummer Productions you're one of the only people who hate these films when they were kids, guess you could see the crap better than most of us could.
I feel ya. I used to love Home on the Range. I hate it to death now.
+The Official Inkwell Home on the Range?
That, was...wow. Maybe even Disney's worst movie.
"Will Smith fish is too stupid and too selfish." Get it? Selfish? Sel...fish!! ........ I'll show myself out.
the entire shark tale review but every time doug says "will smith fish" we are number one plays and every time they say one the nutshack theme plays and every time they say nutshack the entire bee movie script is read and every time they say bee they play the fresh prince of bel air theme
You should do a top 11 worst liar reveals.
*watches Aladdin trailer
“Will Smith Genie is scary! Ok? I’m just putting it out there! Will Smith as a Genie is f**ing disgusting!”
My mom and I went to the theaters to watch this, and we were the only ones there. Bad sign.
Gardetrace Same thing but I slept through the first half and I was kind of scared of watching it but I guess more because it was more because I was in Honey I Shrunk The Audience and it scared the crap out of me
Gardetrace Oh wow I’m surprised it even made more than $300 Million at the box office
@@spookyrosev6467 WOW! WHERE CAN I WATCH THE MOVIE? WHERE?
That's always a bad sign!
I went with both my parents and they fell asleep
3:36 "...and too sel-fish." :P
Okay... sorry... I know... "terrible puns"...
It fits the movie perfectly, actually.
It's funnier than any of the puns in the actual movie
@@kaedynbrandt5181 that too.
That pun was just unavoidable.
And now Sharp Talk is one of the greatest YTPS on TH-cam.
I think that most of us can agree that this is definitely Dreamworks' bottom of the barrel. Say all you want about Shrek 3 'killing the franchise, at least that film was only a less-than-average film comming off the heels of a amazing 2nd film and it had more reddeming qualties. This on the other hand is just a downright pain to sit through. While nowhere as abysmal as Foodfight or (God Forbid) Where The Dead Go To Die, it's still really painful with one of the worst protagonists ever, crammed with dated pop songs, blatant product placement, tasteless and unfunny jokes, disgusting character design, the clichéd story, and the fact this came off the heels of Shrek 2 is just mind-boggoling.
I'm glad Jack Black and Angelena Jole redeemed themselves in Kung Fu Panda, but I do hope Will Smith could return for another Dreamworks film to reddem himself.
Alex Ramirez 100% agree. And yet this film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature over The Polar Express, which is a WAY better film than Shark Tale in every single capacity possible.
@@ZemeckisTEN No, the real film that got gipped was Howl's Moving Castle. Anything by Studio Ghibli is usually better than most of what Hollywood puts out in the animated department. Even their worst film is still way better than most of Dreamwork's worst.
No. DreamWorks' bottom of the barrel was THE BOSS BABY. That thing made my eyes BLEED. It was PURE FUCKING AGONY.
@@cleverpsyche115 I kinda get where your coming from. And honestly, Studio Ghibli's worst films like Earwig and Tales from Earthsea are bad, but not a complete chore. They are more or less just passable waste of time. But the worst of Dreamworks and Sony can be simply unbearable. At least, that's how it is for me.
I remember this being one of the first movies I watched in cinema without my parents. Halfway through we were so bored that we left and simply walked into another theater to watch The Incredibles.
The opening of this review has no equal
THE FARM IS BEING CLOSED D O W N
To quote a YTP based on this movie: “Will Smith-Fish is a cow.”
“It just feels like it was created from marketing surveys.” Wow so Dreamworks has been doing this before Illumination.
this and flushed away were two of my favoutite films when I was younger, still love them! this film is funny in my opinion
The two jellyfish characters is what got us falling in love with Jellyfishes in the first place. We remember them more than any other character in the film. They're cool! And yeah, The movie is okay. But it IS kind of a clever idea. :)
Will smith fish is a cow, but then they find out the THE FARM IS BEING CLOSED DOWN! So the cows figure if they can bring this bandit to justice, they can use the reward money to save the Jewish people.
You should’ve called Martin Scorsese fish Puff Daddy (actual nickname given to the character)
"Will Smith Fish is scary."
**fast forward to 2019**
"JAMES CORDEN CAT IS FUCKING TERRIFYING"
Ooookkk.
"Will Smith fish is SCARY.
I'm just putting that out there right now. Will Smith, as a fish, is fucking disgusting."
I already saw this review but I had to come back to this one again just to hear Doug's hilarious rant on how shit this thing looks.
Despite the fact that, when I was a kid, my mum told me to go stand outside instead of in, y'know, THE NEXT ROOM, when I said I didn't want to watch this lousy movie; that was just because the sharks scared me as opposed to the aquatic incarnation of Will Smith, and I thought that in the vein of the Garfield adaption the shitty writing was an acquired taste that I'd understand when I was older. I grew up with great films Dreamworks' pals at Aardman, along with a mixture of decent films by studios like Dreamworks or Disney, and yet there was a small place reserved for crummy films like this that I'd watch again and again in hopes of enjoying them.
Anywho, I just came to watch Doug bash this awful film some more.
Loved this when I was a kid, because I'm a Will Smith fan.
This is a slap in will smith face
I was forced to see this one in theaters, and while it wouldn’t be the last time, it was the first time I ever squirmed with boredom the entire time at the movie theater. Hated it then. Hate it now.
I love that he had to vent about the hideous character design before he could even start to tallk about the movie.
I have to admit the story felt mediocre and pointless 😕
"Mussel Crow"
Okay I laughed a little....I'm terrible
This was one of the first movies I actually held a soft spot for when I was a kid, not to mention I didn't know most of the actors that played those roles. At the time, it was pretty comedic and I thought transport NYC underwater was a genius choice. Now that time has passed, I suppose it hasn't aged as well as I thought.
I loved this film. And even to this day I still enjoy it and will always defend it. The animation is really good and has aged perfectly and it just overall is really enjoyable and I would even go as far as saying I like it just as much as finding nemo.
🖕🖕🖕frick you!!! This movie is a piece of crap!!!
It's questionable how this got an Oscar nomination
What other movie has character named oscar?
I mean will smith was named "Oscar"
I don't know why, but I absolutely love this movie.
I don’t care what you or other people say I loved this movie as kid and I still like to watch it every now and then now.
If you switch out "vegetarian" for "gay" this movie takes on a whole new meaning
I always kind of got that vibe, like, "Oh I don't want to eat fish" always meant "No, dad, I don't want to marry a girl shark and have shark kids, and take over your shark empire. I WANT TO BE A DANCER"
Not really. Gay people also abhor eating fish.
That's a true fact.
Shark Tale be like-
Corporate you to find the difference between this picture (vegetarian) and this picture (gay)
They’re the same picture
The only reason this movie is set underwater is because Finding Nemo was a hit a year earlier. The underwater setting literally has nothing to do with the plot, so they try to justify it with fish puns. When you have to justify your setting with puns and not with... I don't know, THE FREAKING STORY, you know you fucked up.
Thank god for Spies in Disguise an actual good Animated Will Smith movie.
A guilty pleasure of mine.
Fun fact: this movie came out the year after Finding Nemo
Am I the only one who actually remembers and likes this movie? I thought it was good.
The only parts of this film I liked were the shark moments, I was genuinely fascinated by their story to the point where I wish this film was about them like a Mafia story of some sharks and orcas muscling in on Don Lino's territory, Frankie gets killed and Lenny has to lead the sharks while trying to maintain his vegetarianism. Not to toot my own horn, but you could've had a dramatic DreamWorks movie predating Kung-Fu Panda and How To Train Your Dragon, but nope... we get Will Smith Fish. Yay.
I'm surprised he didn't point out the fact that the underwater world is a mixture of Spongebob's world and ours: JAWS movie poster, New York style, and Coca-Cola. Loved it as a kid but seeing it right now not so much.
Also, this movie came out in 2004:
- a year after Finding Nemo
- the same year as the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and of said series' 5th anniversary
- when Jaws turned 29.
The only time Schaffrillas and Doug practically said the same thing and really coincide xd
Shark Tale is a masterpiece and Will Smith as a fish is sexy
It's shocking how this movie got an Oscar nomination.
My brother and I still say "I'm not a loser, I'm a wiener" whenever we can get away with it. It's the only thing we can remember from the film and it still cracks us up.
Watch Doug's glowing review of Shark tale
Because the film Sinbad movie bombed, cause a huge bankruptcy, people says that Nemo is way beautiful, and DreamWorks force itself to end 2D animation in their cartoon division.. DAMN if only we could bring back the 2D ANIMATION
If only... now it's all 3D, no matter how good or bad it looks.
and he's finally reviewed sharktales
When they say this is Dreamwork's worst film: it really is.
Oh, hi yoshi plush :)
N. C. Hi.
+Frankie Reese :)
I don't know, I still find Bee Movie to be worse, although I know the nostalgia critic liked it. They were putting on Bee Movie a few weeks ago and my siblings sat down to watch just to laugh at how terrible it was.
+Frankie Reese their next movie trolls will take shark tales place
This review pretty much speaks for itself on how I felt about this movie.
1:16-1:18 They like fish and they like Will Smith.
Yea this is one of those fundamentally flawed ideas that can never be fixed.
Omgggg stop Shark- Tales is iconic 😂
Will Smith fish is probably 99% of the black people
That’s most likely what the directors/writers thought instead; a naïve, cheap ingratiation of what negroes will find likable, it’s embarrassingly obvious
Happy 16th Anniversary to Shark Tale!🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎂🎂🎂🧁🧁🧁🧁🍰🍰🍰🎊🎊🎊🎊
this is pretty funny when you watch this after the ytp where he gives a glowing review of the movie! XD
I remember watching this movie all the freaking time when I was little. I remember seeing Will Smith's face when I grew up and thinking he looked like Oscar from Shark Tale lmaooooo. Only in like 2010 did I look up the cast and see it was really him.
Watching this review after the ytp is so surreal.
How is being a dolphin better? they eat fish too
I think just being away from his judgey family and not recognized by them.
He reviewed this as the Nostalgia Critic today.
The only good thing that came from this movie, in my personal opinion, is the car wash song featuring Christina Aguilera lol.
Halo2glitchlover22 The soundtrack as a whole is just as good as the movie itself
You dare insult Oscar the shark slayer?! A grave mistake.
I came here from a YTP saying that you supported this movie.
Jesus, I remember when this movie came out. I was working at Costco in the meat department and everytime I went to break or lunch, it would be playing on all the TV's in the electronic section for about 3 - 4 months on repeat when I would walk past to clock in and out. I never saw the whole thing from start to finish, only bits and pieces and saw it in countless shopping carts as people where shopping in the store.
Should've been Codfather.
I like this film. There I said it. Also, in the UK version, Katie Current is vocied by Fiona Phillips. Of course, because she isn't voiced by Katie Couric, the joke doesn't really work. I didn't even realize there was a joke there until I saw the copy owned by my old primary school during the after school club they held.
I don't remember this movie too much, all I know is that when I saw it I remember really liking it.
Was five when this came out I loved it as a five-year-old . I still love it
Wait. Martin FRICKING Scorsese. And Robert De Niro? What kind of parallel universe did I wake up in?
This movie is a guilty pleasure for me
I'm glad I hardly ever saw this movie to the end as a kid
Hey this is a masterpiece
@@mrnintendo150 no,sorry,but no
Maybe this shows my age but I remember loving this movie when I was younger hahaha
The sad thing is the movie was actually supposed to be a dark, godfather-type animated movie at first.
And then marketing happened.
I kinda liked this
I used to watch this on my gameboy advance SP when they made movie cartridges. didn't ever own the DVD or the VHS just the movie GBA cartridge.
The scene where Oscar is staring at Lola is Freaking hilarious
You know what's interesting we have this on dvd and I liked this when I was younger. Looking back, I have no idea what part of this actually appealed to me
Shark tale was pretty much my childhood, I watched it all the time and so I'll always have that respect for it cause I loved it so much as a little kid. But I haven't seen it since then, so maybe I'm just being nostalgic (irony) when I think of it as a good film
This was back when Dreamworks switched from stylistic original 2D films such as Prince of Egypt and El Dorado and started doing what I suppose were middle fingers from Katzenberg to Disney and Pixar hence Antz and Shrek.
I kinda liked this movie as a kid but now that I'm older it's really embarrassing. The pop culture jokes and the catchphrases are just SAD ("Raise the Reef, Shark-Slayer, Shell-phones, Seahorse racing")
Finding Nemo for me is one of the most timeless animated films despite it being set in 2003. It's my second favourite animated film and ranks number 4 on my top 10 favourite films of all time. The reason?
Well, not only is the story incredibly well written and executed and the characters all fleshed out and identifiable, not only the animation beautiful, and the dialogue having little to no pop culture references, but it's one of the only animated films to have no villain. It's just humans being humans and animals being animals, all surviving. The sharks in that film I'm really impressed with because Pixar got the true nature of sharks down to a T. Scary and intimidating, but mellow and non-threatening. Respectful and laid back but instincts kick in if blood is smelled.
Here, when you have the "Shark Mafia," it seems silly in comparison. (not that I'm against Robert De Niro's shark, he's actually the best character in the movie and everybody else is a dumbass!) but yeah I think Finding Nemo is a way better film because it portrays what a "sea community" would look like, how news would travel and what the fish would do in their daily life.
Plus what makes Marlin a likeable, sympathetic character is his past, his will, his caring paternal instinct, his determination and his bravery even when he was terrified to go thousands of miles along the Australian coast to rescue his son.
Oscar is a despicable excuse for a character! He's lazy, arrogant, takes credit for someone's death, bets his friend's heirloom on the races and acts tough when really he can't do shit.
The message of Finding Nemo is that the world is beautiful and dangerous and our children must grow up to be careful but not fear it.
The message of Shark Tale is if you lie you become a celebrity.
I would say this is the worst Dreamworks film, but Trolls is coming out so it's technically the second. Oh and don't be surprised if we have an Inside Out knock off from them called "Taste Buddies."
You know, when I rewatched the movie I almost had the impression they made the sharks mobsters to make them appear as the usual villains so Oscar would have seemed more likeable compared to them (I see, but if the sharks don’t do any villainous act while Oscar causes more chaos and problems than all of them put together, then don’t be surprised if most of the audience hate him)
Why did I ever like this movie?
When I was a kid and we saw this in theaters, I missed a good 1/3rd of the movie because nobody realized that there was like another half hour of movie after the credits rolled... and ANOTHER 10 minutes after the second credits rolled. Who honestly thought that was a good idea?
I used to like this movie as a kid, but as a grown adult, i wish i never saw it.