Shark Tale
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2004 · Animation / Action / Comedy / Family

Shark Tale

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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.

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An absolute cinematic disaster.

Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great white shark with a surprising secret that no sea creature would guess: He's a vegetarian. When a lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and Lenny becomes an outcast, the two form an unlikely friendship.

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RELEASE DATE
2004
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Animation / Action / Comedy / Family
PLOT SUMMARY

Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great white shark with a surprising secret that no sea creature would guess: He's a vegetarian. When a lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and Lenny becomes an outcast, the two form an unlikely friendship.

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@ENDING_LEAKS2025-12-11 11:00 UTC

If Shark Tale was a meal, it'd be unsalted rice with extra ego.

@SCREEN_SHADE2025-12-06 07:00 UTC

Cried during Shark Tale. Mostly at the ticket price.

@LATE_SHOW_LURKER2025-12-03 11:00 UTC

Shark Tale is what improv class warned you about.

@TRAILER_TROLL2025-12-16 20:00 UTC

Shark Tale put every joke in the trailer and then dared us to sit through the rest.

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r/TrueFilm · u/ScriptDoctor99🔥 2.7k points

[Serious Discussion] Is anyone else completely checked out by the pacing in Shark Tale?

Look, I wanted to love Shark Tale. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.

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r/boxoffice · u/MidnightMatinee🔥 4.5k points

Hot Take: Shark Tale's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece

Just got out of Shark Tale and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.

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r/movies · u/JumpCutJunkie🔥 2.0k points

Unpopular opinion: Shark Tale is the most overrated film of the decade

Director clearly thought Shark Tale was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.

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r/movies · u/ScriptDoctor99🔥 1.4k points

Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in Shark Tale actually is?

Honestly, Shark Tale would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.

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