Shark Tale

Shark Tale is a charming animated feature from Dreamworks about a little fish that tells a big lie to move up in the fish world. Will Smith is the voice of Oscar, the lowly tongue scrubber at the Whale Wash. He's feisty and full of ideas, but when his debts are called in by his boss Sykes (Martin Scorcese), a marvelous puffer fish character, then Oscar's troubles really begin. He sinks deeper and deeper (literally) until an accident casts him into the role of a hero. It's a deception that Oscar finds to his great benefit. And it also suits Lenny (voiced by Jack Black), the vegetarian shark who wants to get away from the pressure of his shark-mafia family.

This winning story by director Ron Letterman and screenwriter Michael J. Wilson is better than Nemo in my opinion. The characters are more engaging, the humor is more subtle (although plenty of it is not subtle), and the actors obtained for voicing are superb. Scorcese almost steals the show.