Big sharks - small fish

Movie
German title	Big sharks - small fish
Original title	Shark Tale
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2004
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0 JMK 0
Rod
Director	Rob Letterman , Bibo Bergeron , Vicky Jenson
script	Rob Letterman Michael J. Wilson
production	Bill Damaschke Janet Healy Allison Lyon Segan
music	Hans Zimmer
cut	Nick Fletcher
synchronization

Big Sharks - Small Fish (original title: Shark Tale; in German: Haifisch-Geschichte ) is a computer animation film from 2004 by the directors Vicky Jenson , Rob Letterman and Bibo Bergeron .

action

Oscar is just a small cleaner wrasse in the underwater world of the native Southside Reef . He works in the whale laundry of the pufferfish Sykes and dreams of fame, respect and money, but he sees no chance of achieving all of that. As unhappy as he is with his life, he does not notice that the angelfish Angie is secretly in love with him.

To make matters worse, Oscar has borrowed heavily from Sykes and since he cannot repay the money, Sykes decides to give Oscar 24 hours to pay. But when Angie gives him money for it, he puts it on the racing horse, Lucky Day. But when he falls in the race and can no longer win, Sykes gets angry and decides to have Oscar eliminated by Ernie and Bernie, two "Rasta jellyfish".

Coincidentally, at the point where Oscar is to be eliminated, Frankie, the eldest son and the pride of Don Lino, the reef's shark mafia boss, is killed by an anchor. Oscar cleverly uses the situation and presents himself as a shark killer and riff saver.

While Oscar enjoys the comforts of his star existence, including the acquaintance of the attractive lionfish lady Lola, the shark mafia prepares a counterattack.

Lenny, the youngest son of Don Linos, is a vegetarian and absolutely meek, which worries his father because his eldest son is now dead and can no longer take over the family business. Lenny should therefore kill the "shark killer" and so on the one hand restore the family's reputation and on the other hand prove that he is a real shark.

But Oscar and Lenny, who met in Frankie's tragic death, also make plans. Since Lenny wants to get out of his family's mafia business, he fakes a death throes with Oskar, in which he falls into the depths. Oscar has now proven to the reef inhabitants that he can really kill a shark and Lenny can now, disguised as a dolphin , take a job in the whale laundry.

Of course, the shark mafia, led by Don Lino, cannot let this shame sit on them and plans to lure Oscar and his friends into a trap, which they succeed. After an initial bluff is exposed, they only narrowly escape death by being eaten, but are followed by Don Lino into the reef and into the whale washing facility. There, Oscar succeeds in locking Don Lino and Lenny face-to-face with the skillful use of car wash technology. Oscar takes the opportunity to reconcile father and son and to persuade the Mafia to come to an agreement to spare the reef in the future. He himself reveals his hoax to the assembled press and confesses his love to Angie in front of the cameras.

Last but not least, Oscar becomes the co-owner and manager of the whale laundry.

background

• The animated figures were adapted (in the original English) to the appearance and facial expressions of their human speakers.
• Rob Letterman was only accepted into the directing team after his work as a co-author.
• The role of news reporter Katie Current has been specially selected for each country. It is synchronized by a nationally known news anchor. In the German version it was from RTL presenter Frauke Ludowig spoken. In the Australian version, she was voiced by Tracey Grimshaw, who is the co-host of Today .
• Big Sharks - Small Fish quotes and alludes to many different films, such as: B. on Apocalypse Now , Scarface , Jurassic Park , The Jaws , Jerry Maguire - Game of Life , Die Monster AG , Ring , Finding Nemo , Seabiscuit - With the Will to Success and on the classic mafia film The Godfather .
• The film grossed twice the budget of $ 75 million in the US alone.
• The film, produced by DreamWorks SKG and Pacific Data Images , was released in German cinemas on October 14, 2004.

music

Composer Hans Zimmer put together the soundtrack for Big Sharks - Small Fish .

• The song "Got to Be Real" sung by Will Smith is by Mary J. Blige .
• Justin Timberlake and Timbaland sing "Good Foot".
• Ziggy Marley , son of Bob Marley , also has a speaking role in the original version, but also sings "Three Little Birds" with Sean Paul .
• The Pussycat Dolls sang the song "We Went as Far as We Felt Like Going" .
• At the end of the film, Christina Aguilera and Missy Elliott have a guest appearance singing a new version of "Car Wash".

synchronization

The synchronization was done by Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke . Michael Nowka directed the dialogue and also wrote the dialogue book .

role	Original speaker	German speaker
Oscar	Will Smith	Daniel Fehlow
Lola	Angelina Jolie	Sandra Speichert
Angie	Renée Zellweger	Yvonne Catterfeld
Don Lino	Robert De Niro	Christian Brückner
Sykes	Martin Scorsese	Roland Hemmo
Lenny	Jack Black	Dietmar miracle
Don Feinberg	Peter Falk	Horst Sachtleben
Frankie	Michael Imperioli	Martin Keßler
Luca	Vincent Pastore	Thomas Danneberg
Ernie	Ziggy Marley	Faiz Mangat
Bernie	Doug E. Doug	Mola Adebisi
Katie Current	Katie Couric	Frauke Ludowig
Crazy Joe	David P. Smith	Wolfgang Spier

Reviews

“Fast-paced, sympathetic and elaborate, but overall quite harmless cartoon comedy about various sea creatures. She mainly relies on quoting genre films and imitating human life in the big cities and black youth culture, without eliciting a convincing humorous approach from this endeavor. "

- Lexicon of international film

"As with" Nemo ", a vegetarian shark struggles with its fate; however, "Shark Tale" (original title) pushes the humanization of the critters decisively further without reaching the charm of the predecessor. "

- The mirror

“It's not lame from start to finish. The film has its two or three moments: for example when you think you can recognize Robert De Niro's features in Don Lino's shark face, because this shark has a blemish under the right eye and - in the original - speaks in Robert De Niro's voice (in German Christian Brückner, the voice actor De Niros, takes on the task). In addition, the film keeps it like its main character Oscar: Just as the latter dreams of big money with minimal investment, the latter wants to achieve its box office results with a minimum of imagination. In the surplus of the underwater world, this is too little use. "

- Cristina Nord - The daily newspaper

"In my deepest innermost, I'm superficial," Lola once said, and so it is with this film, which is only fun if it sets aside the educational ambitions to engage in its mobster parody of the world of sharks and slimy To graze squids. "

- Anke Westphal - Berliner Zeitung

Awards

Bill Damaschke, the producer of Big Sharks - Small Fish , was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Animated Feature Film in 2005, but could not prevail against The Incredibles - The Incredibles .

Hans Zimmer won the ASCAP Film and Television Music Award for the music for Big Sharks and Will Smith received the Kid's Choice Award for Most Popular Voice in an Animated Film .

In addition, the film was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film and proposed for the Annie Award in the categories animation effects , character animation and character design as well as screenplay for an animated film .

Renée Zellweger and Ken Duncan were nominated for the Visual Effects Society Awards for extraordinary portrayal of an animated character .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of Approval for Big Sharks - Small Fish . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2004 (PDF; test number: 98 176 K).
2. ↑ Age rating for big sharks - small fish . Youth Media Commission .
3. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Big sharks - small fish. Retrieved December 4, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Big Sharks - Small Fish in the Lexicon of International Films
5. ↑ Big Sharks - Small Fish in Der Spiegel , issue 42/2004
6. ↑ Hysterical Pisces in Die Tageszeitung from October 14, 2004
7. ↑ The animated film "Shark Tale" ended the Venice Film Festival in Berliner Zeitung on September 11, 2004

Web links

• Large sharks - Small fish in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Large sharks - Small fish atRotten Tomatoes(English)