With apologies to the Italian-American Anti-Defamation League, I laughed when Martin Scorsese, doing the voice of a puffer fish, first paid a call on a shark godfather (Robert Niro) with two sons — one macho (Michael Imperioli), one not (Jack Black). But the joke gets old fast. And Will Smith is more manic than a school of Eddie Murphys as a little fish th two loves — one nice (Renee Zellweger), one not (Angelina Jolie). This -laden imated fable feeds off Finding Nemo and Shrek, but it's stale, like mething you wrap in yesterday's newspaper.

“1999”

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.