![]() ![]() Lee Ermey John Rhys-Davies Donal Logue Rob Schneider and Freddie Prinze Jr. and South Korea ugh, what do these two nations have in common when it comes to film-making? Shark Bait's cast includes R. I read that this film was a joint venture between the U.S.A. ![]() Did we really need another film about a young and energetic hero who must overcome his self doubts and doubters as he strives to win the heart of a young female and beat the bad guys in the process, creating a better and safer new order? No, we didn't but Shark Bait goes ahead anyway. But it's not that Shark Bait isn't just bad, it's mostly pointless. Yes, Shark Bait truly is that bad in fact it could well be looked at as a new low for animation as a whole. Trust me this is a cable movie.Ĭompared to this, films like The Little Mermaid and more recently Finding Nemo are broad, groundbreaking epic pieces of surrealist animated genius that echo Fantasia. Its one of those bad movies that you find yourself enjoying on TV simply because its not as bad as your other choices and because its not really costing you anything. To be certain this is the sort of movie you'll watch a couple of times on cable but that doesn't mean its worth your hard earned money. Its oddly amusing at times in a weird sort of way, but I can't recommend you actually pay to see this movie. To be certain many of the jokes have been lifted from elsewhere and you will find yourself saying the punchlines before the characters do, but there's a good chance that you'll still be amused thanks to the work of people like Fran Drescher, John Rhys-Davies and R Lee Ermey who take their stock characters and turn them into something more than a wooden prop. Oddly the dialog seems much better than the Frankenstein like plot. Its as if they had an incomplete staff of animators so they could only really finish bits of the animation. The some of the animation is lacking any sort of finished quality appearing as what looks like a half step up from test footage. (while I understand that's probably what it would look like in the ocean, its really dull to look at on the big screen). Some are fantastically detailed settings like Pi's aunt's home or the pirate ship which look great on the other hand there is the nothingness of the open ocean (and I do mean nothingness), with the characters seeming to hang all alone in a world that's just the blank sea. On the other hand characters like the shark and the old timers are blocky and awful. ![]() The look of the girl fish for example is quite lovely, the design for Pi's "psychic" aunt is amusing, while the look of the three eyed friend of Pi's parents back in Boston is clichéd but very funny. The character designs run the gamut from really good to what were they thinking. I'd love to see someone take the film and annotate it so that there is a list of steals. There's a drinking game in this movie where you take a drink every time you spot a riff from some other movie. It's a jaw dropping in its unoriginality. The film doesn't so much plagiarize Finding Nemo (which is sort of reversed here) and the other animated films from the last few years as rip them apart and stitches them together into a movie so unoriginal you'll swear you've seen it before. Once on the reef he falls for the most beautiful girl in the area and runs a foul of a shark. The plot of the film has Pi, a fish from Boston Harbor fleeing south to "The Reef" to find his aunt after his parents are scooped up in a fishing net. 1.The Reef (aka Shark-bait) is a(n occasionally watchable) mess of a movie. Dan Thornhill, an affiliated faculty member at Auburn University in Alabama, and Rene Umberger, an activist who runs the non-profit For the Fishes in Hawaii, cite these five species as particularly vulnerable to the aquarium trade. The problem extends to tropical coral reefs worldwide the aquarium trade has a devastating impact on some fish communities. In many places, the darting yellow schools of fish are noticeably diminished or even absent. Today, the Big Island’s Kona Coast is ground zero for Hawaii’s aquarium fish industry, and it shows. Beneath the ocean’s surface was a rainbow of reef fish, none brighter than the yellow tang. Growing up in Hawaii, I spent summers with my grandparents on the Big Island, where a cheap snorkel and mask were all I needed to travel to a different world. Authored byĪp| 700 words, about 3 minutes Share this article Will the 2016 release of Finding Dory cause another run on this fragile fish? Photo by Joe Enenbach/National Geographic Creative/Corbis Five Aquarium Fish Best Left in the Ocean For some fish, life in an aquarium dooms their very existence. Hollywood fame was dangerous for the blue hippo tang, the inspiration for fast-talking Dory in Finding Nemo. ![]()
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