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`Shark Tale'.
Byline: Chris Vognar
Pixar and "Shrek" have raised a high bar for the computer-animated family film. Some entries will measure up, but many will fall short.
"Shark Tale" is one that falls short. It's not horrible, mind you. Some of the visual detail is sumptuous, and a bubbly Will Smith makes for a great voice actor as a boastful fish. No, "Shark Tale" is just aggressively, tenaciously, average. It's as if "Shrek" studio DreamWorks worked from an old recipe on this one, throwing in a little dash of pop culture in here, a pinch of uplift there, and presto! A movie.
These movies tend to have lessons, and the one at the center of "Shark Tale" is ...
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