A Shark's Tale
Am I alone in this dilemma?--this dread involving kid movies? I hate sitting through these G or PG movies for a whole 90 minutes. It's torture! I'd rather have rusty eye bolts hammered through my tongue, be suspended by a bungy cord from a Peterbilt front chrome bumper and keel hauled on from one end of I-10 to the next than sit in a dark movie theatre watching some lame anime or Pokemon crap while my flip flops become the la Brea Tar Pit victims of our time as they become engulfed in popcorn grease, kid vomit and drool--all while listening to scatological humor at its worst. Just the thought of it makes the corner of my mouth twitch. It really does. Although my kids have thankfully graduated from the Barney and Blues Clues set, they're not ready for the Forgotten or The Exorcist, so suffer, I must.
The Shark's Tale was a different story, though. First of all, I think Will Smith is cute. I worry about my sanity when I'm thinking a cartoon character is hot, though. And the characters were all funny--De Niro, the Rastafarian jellyfish, the mafiosos octopus. Loved it. Instead of spending the time playing solitaire on my PDA or balancing my checkbook (and I use the term "balancing" in the loosest of terms,) I actually laughed at the clever jokes, gasped at the close calls, and sighed my "Oh no's" at the sad parts. I'm thinking, "Damn, When's it out on DVD, man?" Don't know why they made Cristina Aguilera a jellyfish though. Shouldn't she be something like a Barricuda or Piranha? Go see it, guys!