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In the Southside Reef, a lowly Bluestreak cleaner wrasse named Oscar fantasizes about being rich and famous, but owes money to his boss, a pufferfish named Sykes. His best friend, an angelfish named Angie, offers him a pearl that was a gift from her grandmother to pawn and pay his debt. Meanwhile, Don Lino, the boss of a mob gang of sharks, orcas, swordfish, and octopuses, dislikes that his son Lenny is a vegetarian, and orders his eldest son, Frankie, to mentor Lenny.
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Sykes becomes Oscar's manager and forgives his debt, and Oscar moves to the "top of the reef" to live in luxury. At the same time, Lino has everyone search for Lenny and the "Sharkslayer". Oscar encounters Lenny who, aware of Oscar's lie, begs Oscar to let him stay at his place to avoid returning to his father. Angie soon finds out about Oscar's lie and threatens to tell everyone, but he and Lenny convince her to be quiet. 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. Lola kisses Oscar on camera, making Angie jealous. That night, as Lenny disguises himself for his new life as a dolphin, Oscar and Angie get into a heated argument, where she reveals that she had feelings for Oscar even before he became the "Sharkslayer". Oscar reflects on his selfishness and dumps Lola, who beats him up in anger.
Shark Tale opened at #1 with $47.6 million, which was, at the time, the second-highest opening for a DreamWorks Animation film behind Shrek 2 ($108 million).[20] It remained the #1 film in the U.S. and Canada for its second and third weekends.[21]
Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars, observing, "Since the target audience for Shark Tale is presumably kids and younger teenagers, how many of them have seen the R-rated Godfather and will get all the inside jokes? Not a few, I suppose, and some of its characters and dialogue have passed into common knowledge. But it's strange that a kid-oriented film would be based on parody of a 1972 gangster movie for adults." He also opined that younger viewers would have trouble enjoying a film about adult characters with adult problems, such as an elaborate love triangle and a main character wanting to clear his debt with loan sharks, and compared it to more successful fish-focused animated features like Pixar Animation Studios' Finding Nemo, which Ebert felt featured a simpler plot that audiences could more easily identify with.[25] Richard Roeper commented that although the film was not on the same level as Finding Nemo, it was a film worth seeing.[26]
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The DreamWorks cartoon "Shark Tale" grossed more than $80 million during its first week on home video, the studio said, surpassing its $56 million opening-week box office take.
Oscar (Will Smith), a lowly tounge-scrubber at the local Whale Wash, becomes an improbable hero when he tells a great white lie. To keep his secret, Oscar teams up with an outcast vegetarian shark, Lenny (Jack Black), and the two become the most unlikely of friends. When his life begins to unravel, it's up to Oscar's loyal friend Angie (Renee Zellweger) and Lenny to help him stand up to the most feared shark in the water (Robert De Niro) and find his true place in the reef.
A comic catch from the studio that brought you Shrek, Shark Tale is a hilarious hit and "a wonderful under-the-sea adventure for movie lovers of all ages!" (Clay Smith, Access Hollywood). Oscar (Will Smith), a lowly tongue-scrubber at the local Whale Wash, becomes an improbable hero when he tells a great white lie. To keep his secret, Oscar teams up with an outcast vegetarian shark, Lenny (Jack Black), and the two become the most unlikely of friends. When his lie begins to unravel, it's up to Oscar's loyal friend Angie (Renée Zellweger) and Lenny to help him stand up to the most feared shark in the water (Robert De Niro) and find his true place in the reef.
THIS WEEKEND Afterstruggling for much of 2005, Buena Vista and Universal each generated itsbiggest opening of the year with the launches of the animated kidpic ChickenLittle and the war drama Jarheadwhich captured the top spots at the North American box office. Overallticket sales surged to their best level since mid-July as the promisingNovember frame closed the door on a forgettable October.
Disney got off to a wonderful start for its G-rated computer-generatedtoon Chicken Little which opened toan $40M over the weekend, according to finalnumbers. Playing in 3,654 theaters, the Zach Braff-voiced comedy averageda stellar $10,961 per location. For the studio, it was a chance to showformer partner Pixar that while it may not have the muscle yet to reachthe heights of Finding Nemo or TheIncredibles, which both bowed to over $70M, it is in fact readyto be a formidable player in the world of computer animation in the nearfuture. Chicken Little beat out the$36M bow of Fox's digital toon Robotsfrom last March, but did not reach the $47M neighborhood of the DreamWorksduo Madagascar and SharkTale. With Veterans Day and Thanksgiving approaching, Disneyis hoping for the type of longevity from Littlethat the studio's other recent early November family titlesenjoyed reaching four to fives times their opening weekend grosses.
Universal invaded second place with one of the year's biggest surprises,the Gulf War saga Jarhead, which debutedto $27.7M. Doubling expectations, the R-rated pic starring Jake Gyllenhaaland Jamie Foxx averaged a sensational $11,500 per theater from 2,411 locations.That was the biggest opening weekend average for any wide release sinceCharlie and the Chocolate Factory inmid-July. Directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty),the $72M production pulled in young men and played especially well in largerurban markets. Overlap with the frame's other new release was practicallyzero so both films had room to breathe and find their target audience.According to studio data, 52% of the crowd was over 25 and 57% was male.A strong marketing effort on the part of Universal helped to distinguishthe Marine film from any other choice in the marketplace. 041b061a72