Recently Watched: Shark Tale

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Shark Tale (Widescreen Edition)

Sure, it's candy. It's in-jokes for dozens of things, from inner cities to gangster movies. There is a good story at it's heart, though.

Sure, it's been done before. All good stories have. It's all in how you tell it, and this one is told with bright colors, CGI, and an anthropomorphized reef-to-NYC (hence the inner city and the mobsters).

It's fun, though - for both the kids and adults. Wrapped up in that fun stuff, at its core is the message that it's better to be who you are than who you think you want to be, and that's a lesson most people haven't quite picked up on. Even some relatively well-balanced folks (in that regard) might want a Lamborghini and a billion dollar mansion, and, sometimes, we'd even twist ourselves into something else to show we're worthy of such a thing. Those kind of success stories tend to be short lived - even if the bio comes out during the time of acclaim, chances are future editions will uncover all the tragedy of the downfall. That success is achieved at the end - as a result of hard work and of staying true to oneself - is of a smaller degree than what had been dreamed up at the outset, but it is a stronger, deeply satisfying, longer lasting success.

The most enjoyable characters for me were the sharks - the Mafia - particularly De Niro's Don and Peter Falk's lemon shark. The jellyfish Rastafarians (Ziggy Marley and Doug E. Doug) were pretty cool, too. =)

Review Updatia Maintainia: I'll be getting to those three aforementioned music reviews Monday through Wednesday night in the order I received the discs - more readers on the weekdays, for the most part! =)