Shark Tale

Starring: Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, Renee Zellweger, Martin Scorsese, Jack Black

Directed by: Eric 'Bibo' Bergeron, Victoria Jenson

RS: 2of 4 Stars

2004 DreamWorks SKG Action

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 De 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 with two loves -- one nice (Renee Zellweger), one not (Angelina Jolie). This star-laden animated fable feeds off Finding Nemo and Shrek, but it's stale, like something you wrap in yesterday's newspaper.