Shark Tale

Shark Tale is a 2004 CGI comedy produced by DreamWorks Animation. In the story, a young fish (voiced by Will Smith) falsely claims to have killed the son of a shark mob boss to win favor with the mob boss' enemies and advance his own community standing. The movie additionally features the voices of Jack Black, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese, and Robert De Niro. Its original title was Sharkslayer, but the producers thought that this might provoke a degree of misunderstanding among the target audience of the film, children and families. Shark Tale is also one of the first three feature-length films to be made into a Game Boy Advance Video. It was released into theaters on October 1, 2004. Although the film was a commercial success it was a critical flop, especially when compared to the critically acclaimed Finding Nemo, a film with a similar theme, which also completely outshone Shark Tale commercially.

• Will Smith as Oscar, the Bluestreak cleaner wrasse. The film's protagonist, Oscar is an underachieving worker in the Whalewash of Reef City. He wants to be rich, but his schemes always fail and he owes five thousand clams to Sykes. When he can't pay that off, he is taken to the Wastelands, and is present when Frankie gets killed by an anchor. He then takes the credit for killing the shark and gets the title of "SharkSlayer". At first he is unaware that Frankie is the son of Don Lino.
• Jack Black as Lenny. A great white shark, Lenny isn't a meat-eater - he's a vegetarian, but he's scared of admitting this to his father, Don Lino. Lenny becomes frightened and depressed when his brother Frankie is killed by an accident, partly blaming himself for the accident. He runs away from home, and gets Oscar to hide him. Later on he disguises himself as a dolphin, befriends Oscar and Angie, and starts working at the Whale Wash. Lenny is the young (possibly teenage) son of Lino.
• Robert De Niro as Don Lino. Father of Frankie and Lenny, and the leader of a mob of criminally-inclined sharks, Lino is the main antagonist of the film. He wants Lenny and Frankie to take over the 'business' and run it together. When Frankie is killed and Lenny runs away he sends squads out to find Lenny. His home is a sunken luxury ship (Possibly Titanic). When Oscar pretends to defeat Lenny, he decides to make Oscar the "Catch-Of-The-Day". When he finds out Lenny is a vegetarian and dresses as a dolphin, he is furious and blames Oscar. He is a parody of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather - who was also once portrayed by Robert De Niro.
• Renée Zellweger as Angie. A marine angelfish and Oscar's best friend and coworker, Angie harbors a secret love for him and in order to pay off his debt to Sykes, she gives him her grandmother's Pink Pearl. Soon, when Oscar owns the title "Sharkslayer", Angie learns that Oscar lied in order to receive his fame.
• Angelina Jolie as Lola. A seductive gold-digger lion fish whom Oscar develops a love interest for, although it is soon obvious that Lola is only interested in Oscar for his fame and fortune. When he dumps her for Angie, she betrays them to the mob.
• Martin Scorsese as Sykes. Sykes is a porcupinefish, and also a loan shark whom Oscar owes five thousand clams to. He once worked for Don Lino but was thrown out and called in his debts to pay off the gangster. When Oscar loses the money in a bet, he orders Ernie and Bernie to send Oscar to the Wastelands. When Oscar owns the title of "Sharkslayer", he becomes his agent, with no idea that the whole thing was an accident.
• Ziggy Marley and Doug E. Doug as Ernie and Bernie. Two jellyfish and Oscar's co-workers, Ernie and Bernie are the two Jamaican bodyguards and henchmen of Sykes. Ernie and Bernie are obsessed at playing video games and enjoy jabbing Oscar with their vicious stingers. Ernie and Bernie have problems with answering the calls during the time at the Whalewash when Angie had been captured, as they kept messing up the business' motto. Once Oscar becomes famous, they learn to respect him and become his loyal friends. Even after he comes clean, they remain pals.
• Michael Imperioli as Frankie. The forty year old savage son of Lino, Frankie is Lenny's brother and a normal killer shark. Frankie was supposed to turn Lenny into a killer, and they stumble upon Oscar in the Wastelands. Frankie tells Lenny to attack him but when Lenny fakes the attack, Frankie becomes angry with him and after a brief chase, he prepares to eat Oscar, but is killed when an anchor falls on him. Oscar takes the credit for this accident.
• Vincent Pastore as Luca. Lino's "left-hand, right-hand man" thug, Luca is an octopus with a tendency to state the obvious. He is named after the character in The Godfather, Luca Brasi.
• Peter Falk as Don Feinberg. An elderly leopard shark who is a friend to Don Lino.
• David P. Smith as Crazy Joe. A deranged hermit crab who is Oscar's other friend and having a "crazy attitude", he normally lives in a dumpster near the Whalewash.
• Katie Current, the local reporter was voiced in different regions by different real-life news presenters. At the time, Katie Couric hosted the Today Show in America, and her name was parodied in the film to which she lent her voice. In the Australian release, then local Today Show co-host Tracy Grimshaw dubbed the lines, as did Fiona Phillips of the UK's GMTV for the UK release of the film. Cristina Parodi of Italy's Verissimo provided the Italian version of the character.