Friday, September 24, 2004
Review of 'Shark Tale', with Will Smith
Shark Tale - Reviews - www.smh.com.au: "There is a Whale Wash, too, the novelty being that its customers are not four-wheel-drive owners but whales in need of a kelp-and-barnacle scrape. This is where Oscar, the film's hero, works. He's a lippy little cleaner wrasse, whose fins and tail fail to obscure his real identity - that of movie and rap star Will Smith.
We've all complained in the past about the way animated features recruit stars as a marketing come-on, using them to voice characters who could have been served just as well by less shiny names. But here, the opposite applies. If anything, Oscar is too Smith-like - a rapping, wise-cracking jittery bundle of American man-child urges that drain the fishiness right out of him."
We've all complained in the past about the way animated features recruit stars as a marketing come-on, using them to voice characters who could have been served just as well by less shiny names. But here, the opposite applies. If anything, Oscar is too Smith-like - a rapping, wise-cracking jittery bundle of American man-child urges that drain the fishiness right out of him."
