History WesternAnimation / SharkTale

* AmbiguouslyGay: Lenny. He talks in a high voice. His confession of being a vegetarian is very similiar to that one of being gay. Just read the "Does This Remind You Off Anything" below.

->''"Don't you worry, boy, I learned from the greatest gangster movie of all time:'' Shark Tale."

* GentleGiant: Lenny

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: No one seems to mind Lola beating the ever-loving crap out of Oscar, even though she does it in front of at least 20-30 people.

** Possibly accidental, but the movie bears some distinct resemblance to ''{{Dragonheart}}'', in which a knight and a dragon ends up in a stalemate during a fight and decides to cooperate. They do this by faking battles with each other in front of awestruck villagers, with the dragon pretending to die in the end.

* {{Homage}}: Possibly accidental, but the movie bears some distinct resemblance to ''{{Dragonheart}}'', in which a knight and a dragon ends up in a stalemate during a fight and decides to cooperate. They do this by faking battles with each other in front of awestruck villagers, with the dragon pretending to die in the end.

* {{Jerkass}}: Ernie, Bernie. Don Lino and Sykes are more questionable.

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: No one seems to mind Lola beating the ever-loving crap out of Oscar, even though she does it in front of at least 20-30 people.

'''''Shark Tale''''' is a 2004 movie produced by Creator/DreamWorksAnimation has probably [[AllStarCast the biggest ensemble cast]] in an animated Dreamworks movie. Starring Creator/WillSmith, JackBlack, RobertDeNiro, Creator/AngelinaJolie, Creator/ReneeZellweger and even director Creator/MartinScorsese. [[InkSuitActor Every character in the movie looks worryingly like the actor voicing them]].

** Oscar's "Pants" are big like Will Smiths clothes were befoe in his older works.

* XRaySparks: Ernie and Bernie, the two {{Electric Jellyfish}}es, makes fishbones flashes whenever they shock a fish.

->''"Don't you worry, boy, I learned from the greatest gangster movie of all time: Shark Tale."''

This 2004 movie produced by Creator/DreamWorksAnimation has probably [[AllStarCast the biggest ensemble cast]] in an animated Dreamworks movie. Starring Creator/WillSmith, JackBlack, RobertDeNiro, Creator/AngelinaJolie, Creator/ReneeZellweger and even director MartinScorsese. [[InkSuitActor Every character in the movie looks worryingly like the actor voicing them]].

!!This movie contains examples of:

* ActorAllusion: When Oscar shouts "You had me at hello!" on TV, Angie is seen grinning. Renee Zellweger, who voiced Angie, stars in ''Film/JerryMaguire'' where the quote is said by her character in the movie.

** Oscar's "Pants" are big like Will Smiths clothes were befoe in his older works
* AdultChild: Ernie & Bernie

* AmbiguouslyGay: Lenny. He's vegetarian, wishes to be a dolphin and tries to hide this secret to his family.
** Don't forget the speech Oscar makes after he's trapped Lenny and Don Lino in the whale wash: "What is your problem? So, your son likes kelp. So, his best friend is a fish. So he likes to dress like a dolphin, so what?! Everybody loves him, just the way he is. Why can't you?"
** May be more like DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything.

* BigEater: Don Lino and Frankie
* BigGuyLittleGuy: Lenny and Oscar

* CarnivoreConfusion: Lenny the Shark, a principled vegetarian who refuses to devour sapient creatures, and massive disappointment to his father, makes an unsuccessful attempt to eat a sobbing shrimp who begs for his life.

* TheDitz: Ernie & Bernie
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The movie wears some distinct resemblence to 1996's ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'', a movie about a knight and a dragon who ends up in a stalemate during a fight and decides to cooperate, to which they do by faking battles in front of awestruck villagers that the dragon pretends to attack, with the knight pretending to kill the dragon at the end...
* EasilyForgiven: Oscar doesn't exactly hold the fact that Sykes ordered him murdered against him, even going so far as to let Sykes profit off of his new image.
** Well, he does owe the guy a lot of money.

* EvilAllAlong: Ernie & Bernie

* FictionalCounterpart: Coral Cola and Gup, anyone?

-->'''Frankie:''' [dying] Lenny, is that you?
-->'''Lenny:''' I'm here, Frankie.
-->'''Frankie:''' Come closer.
-->'''Lenny:''' What is it, Frankie?
-->'''Frankie:''' I'm so cold.
-->'''Lenny:''' That's because we're cold-blooded.
-->'''Frankie:''' [Frankie slaps Lenny] Moron. (dies)

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Bernie call Oscar a "Wiener".
** An early shark tells Lino where Frankie is going when he dies.
* GoldDigger: Lola. In her first scene, [[LampshadeHanging she even calls herself superficial!]]
** Also the name of the song by Ludacris and Bobby Valentino featured in her introduction.
* HeelFaceTurn: Sykes becomes decent enough throughout the progression of the movie that it warrants him getting a happy ending too. If he hadn't improved, it would have taken away from how dangerous Don Lino is.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: RobertDeNiro to MartinScorsese.
-->"We've worked together for a real long time."
* IdiotHero: Oscar

* JerkAss: Ernie, Bernie. Don Lino and Sykes are more questionable.
* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Oscar

* LenoDevice: Katie Current.

* TheNapoleon: Mr. Sykes
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Don Lino & Mr. Sykes

* ShootTheHostage: Oscar attempts to fake this when the Sharks kidnap his girlfriend by having his "dolphin" partner pretend to eat her right on the spot (he grabs her in his mouth, but doesn't swallow) on his order to show that he didn't care. [[spoiler:Fails as the "dolphin" is a vegetarian shark who is repulsed by the simple taste of fish. He spits her out along with the contents of his various lunches.]]
* ShoutOut: It wouldn't be a Dreamworks movie without too many of them to bother listing.
* TheSmartGuy: Lenny - you think at first it's just wishful thinking on Don Lino's part, but Lenny ''is'' pretty sharp. He thinks up a plan to fake his own death. He disguises himself as a dolphin. He even skilfully blackmails Oscar into taking him - a shark - home. When he talks all smooth and "God forbid somebody should find out the truth", you remember that yeah, he may look all cute and vegetarian, but he's still ''the son of a Mafia Shark'' - and he knows the tricks of the trade.

* {{Tsundere}}: Angie.
* UncleTomFoolery: Oscar.

--> '''Oscar''': He trips underwater? Now who in the halibut ''trips'' underwater? And, by the way... on what?

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The movie wears some distinct resemblence to 1996's ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'', which is about a knight and a dragon who ends up in a stalemate during a fight and decides to cooperate, to which they do by faking battles in front of awestruck villagers that the dragon pretends to attack, with the knight pretending to kill the dragon at the end.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The movie wears some distinct resemblence to 1996's Film/{{Dragonheart}}, which is about a knight and a dragon who ends up in a stalemate during a fight and decides to cooperate, to which they do by faking battles in front of awestruck villagers that the dragon pretends to attack, with the knight pretending to kill the dragon at the end.

* DuelingMovies: ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''

* OneSceneWonder: The shrimp that is almost eaten by Lenny. Sort of.

[[caption-width-right:305:JackBlack in a shark costume meets WillSmith in a fish costume.]]

This 2004 movie produced by DreamWorksAnimation has probably [[AllStarCast the biggest ensemble cast]] in an animated Dreamworks movie. Starring WillSmith, JackBlack, RobertDeNiro, AngelinaJolie, ReneeZellweger and even director MartinScorsese. [[InkSuitActor Every character in the movie looks worryingly like the actor voicing them]].

It's how ''Film/TheGodfather'' would be, if there were fish and WillSmith.

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: no one seems to mind Lola beating the ever-loving crap out of Oscar, even though she does it in front of at least 20-30 people
* ActorAllusion: When Oscar shouts "You had me at hello!" on tv, Angie is seen grinning. Renee Zellweger, who voiced Angie, stars in ''JerryMaguire'' where the quote is said by her character in the movie.
** Also, lines such as De Niro's character Don Lino saying, [[RagingBull "I heard things"]] plus a conversation between the De Niro character and the Scorsese character (Sykes) spoof their infamous repeat the same lines back at one another.
** The crowd even shouts "Oscar Bumaye!" the same where a crowd shouts "Ali Bumaye!" to Muhammad Ali (WillSmith plays Ali in his 2001 BioPic)

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The movie wears some distinct resemblence to 1996's {{Dragonheart}}, which is about a knight and a dragon who ends up in a stalemate during a fight and decides to cooperate, to which they do by faking battles in front of awestruck villagers that the dragon pretends to attack, with the knight pretending to kill the dragon at the end.
* DuelingMovies: ''FindingNemo''

* LogoJoke: The boy from DreamWorksAnimation casts his line and the action switches to the worm at the end, which segues into the movie proper.