When a shark fishes for fame
Dec 30, 2004
Any animated film about fish that comes so close after Disney’s World’s <i>Finding Nemo </i>cleaned up the box office has to be suspect
Film: Shark Tale
Stars:Will Smith (voice), Angelina Jolie (voice)
Director:Bibo Bergeron,
et al.
Screenplay:Robe Letterman
Running time: 90 mins.
Rating: PG for some mild language and crude humour
Showing at: Cineplex Garden City from Friday
Preview by:Kalungi Kabuye
Any animated film about fish that comes so close after Disney’s World’s Finding Nemo cleaned up the box office has to be suspect. Especially if it is also from DreamWorks Pictures, who gave us Shrek and have a very public rivalry with Disney.
We never did get around to seeing Finding Nemo, although, of course, there are always those, who prefer to watch pirated DVDs and badly made videos and who might have a story to tell us.
But the box office smashing Nemo never did make it to the big screen in Uganda, so Shark Tale, which will be showing from Friday in the afternoons at Garden City (the evenings will belong to The Manchurian Candidate, starring Denzel Washington, which moves up from Wilson Road) might be a novelty.
In the film, Oscar (Will Smith’s voice) is a big-dreaming fish, who wants fame and fortune, but is stuck in dead end job at the local whale wash, with his best pal Angie (Renee Zellweger), who secretly loves him.
Laden with debts, Oscar is forced out into the dark and scary fringes of his coral hometown, where he meets up with Lenny (Jack Black), a vegetarian shark, who is the son of the local shark mafia led by his father Don Lino (Robert de Niro). Look out for comparisons with Nemo.
Stars:Will Smith (voice), Angelina Jolie (voice)
Director:Bibo Bergeron,
et al.
Screenplay:Robe Letterman
Running time: 90 mins.
Rating: PG for some mild language and crude humour
Showing at: Cineplex Garden City from Friday
Preview by:Kalungi Kabuye
Any animated film about fish that comes so close after Disney’s World’s Finding Nemo cleaned up the box office has to be suspect. Especially if it is also from DreamWorks Pictures, who gave us Shrek and have a very public rivalry with Disney.
We never did get around to seeing Finding Nemo, although, of course, there are always those, who prefer to watch pirated DVDs and badly made videos and who might have a story to tell us.
But the box office smashing Nemo never did make it to the big screen in Uganda, so Shark Tale, which will be showing from Friday in the afternoons at Garden City (the evenings will belong to The Manchurian Candidate, starring Denzel Washington, which moves up from Wilson Road) might be a novelty.
In the film, Oscar (Will Smith’s voice) is a big-dreaming fish, who wants fame and fortune, but is stuck in dead end job at the local whale wash, with his best pal Angie (Renee Zellweger), who secretly loves him.
Laden with debts, Oscar is forced out into the dark and scary fringes of his coral hometown, where he meets up with Lenny (Jack Black), a vegetarian shark, who is the son of the local shark mafia led by his father Don Lino (Robert de Niro). Look out for comparisons with Nemo.