The premiere was attended by 6,000 visitors, [15] including Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, and Michael Imperioli. It was also compared to previous "Finding Nemo" and people said that Dreamworks ripped off the aforementioned Pixar film with bad pop culture jokes. It tells the story of an underachieving fish named Oscar (Smith) who falsely claims to have killed the son of a shark mob boss in an attempt to advance his community standing. Peter Falk as Don Feinberg, an elderly leopard shark and leader of a mob of criminally-inclined leopard sharks.

With no other witnesses, Oscar takes credit for killing Frankie and quickly rises in fame as the "Sharkslayer". It received an overall 48/100 approval rating (based on 36 reviews) and Metacritic users gave the film a 5. The soundtrack features newly recorded music by various artists, including Christina Aguilera, Mary J. The film had promotional support from Burger King, Kellogg’s, General Mills, Coca-Cola and Hewlett-Packard. The first annual Kiera Chaplin Limelight award was presented to Vicky Jenson, co-director of DreamWorks' animated blockbuster Shrek and the upcoming Shark Tale (formerly Sharkslayer).Jackson's frequent collaborator Jimmy Jam, who had recently worked with Beyoncé for The Fighting Temptations soundtrack, commented, "Obviously we'd love to have the involvement of Janet and Beyonce, who we just worked with on Fighting Temptations.

However, Mancini demanded that everything Italian—character names, the mannerisms, the forms of speech—be dropped.However, Richard Roeper commented that although the film wasn't on the same level as Finding Nemo, it was definitely a film worth seeing. The film was officially announced and began production in April 2002, under the title of Sharkslayer, [7] [8] with Vicky Jenson ( Shrek) and Bibo Bergeron ( The Road to El Dorado) directing from a screenplay by Michael J. Robert De Niro as Don Lino, a great white shark and leader of a mob consisting of criminally-inclined great white sharks, who wants his two sons Lenny and Frankie to take over his business and run it together. Archibald's Next Big Thing (2019-present) • Dragons: Rescue Riders (2019-present) • Cleopatra in Space (2020-2022) • Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (2020) • Rhyme Time Town (2020-present) • Madagascar: A Little Wild (2020-2022) • Wizards (2020) • Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (2020-2022) • The Mighty Ones (2020-2022) • Doug Unplugs (2020-2022) • Trolls: TrollsTopia (2020-2022) • Gabby’s Dollhouse (2021-present) • Go, Dog. Even though Oscar desires to please everyone, he soon discovers that he pleases no one; his paramour Angie is heartbroken because Oscar is no longer honest, while her hedonistic rival Lola repeatedly reminds Oscar that he has her only as long as he's famous.

Physical copies contain behind-the-scenes featurettes, games and activities, blooper reels, an audition for the whale Gigi, the Car Wash music video featuring Aguilera and Elliott, and a short film Club Oscar. Columbus Citizens Foundation issued a statement condemning the stereotyping of people with Italian names as gangsters. As the two sharks set out to go in accordance with their father's wishes, Frankie spots the scene where Oscar is being electrocuted by Ernie and Bernie ( Ziggy Marley and Doug E. By September 2003, the film had been retitled Shark Tale, to make it sound less violent and more family friendly. Soon, Angie finds out about the lie from Lenny and threatens to tell everyone, but Oscar and Lenny convince her to keep quiet.Roger Ebert gave Shark Tale 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?

Aliens (2013-2014) • Turbo FAST (2013–2016) • VeggieTales in the House (2014-2016) • All Hail King Julien (2014-2017) • The Adventures of Puss in Boots (2015-2018) • Dinotrux (2015-2018) • The Mr.John Mancini, the founder of the Italic Institute of America, protested Shark Tale for perpetuating negative stereotypes of Italian-Americans in its antagonists. Oscar forsakes all the wealth he has acquired, makes peace with the sharks, becomes manager of the Whale Wash (now frequented by sharks), and starts dating Angie. Renée Zellweger as Angie, an angelfish who is Oscar's best friend and co-worker at the Whale Wash, and harbors a secret crush on him. John Mancini, the founder of the Italic Institute of America, protested the movie, stating: "We're concerned about what preteens are learning from the outside world.