Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Battle of the animated movies

A Shark Tale is now showing on screens, fighting for box office ratings with no less, a Disney/Pixar animation The Incredibles. Nothing incredibly fantastic about the super hero flick though. The storyline is all but predictable and run of the mill. Super Hero saves the day yet again. But not before he gets imprisoned by a powerful nemesis and tortured to his wits' end. Can somebody please come up with a fresh super hero movie plot please???

Shark Tale is, yes, quite predictable too in the unfolding of events, but as the characters are fishes instead of human, the attraction is still very high. Not to mention the fact that the humour is notches more witty than what was present in The Incredibles. Angelina Jolie voicing as the sexy sultry fish, Lola, also brought along the presence of sexual tension in the show.

I would gather from the content of the two animations that The Incredibles is targeting mainly at wholesome family entertainment, while A Shark Tale is going for more matured audiences. The mention of debts, gambling, sexual temptation and shark mafia doesn't exactly make for kiddish entertainment. But heck, we all love the vices in life don't we? And thus, Shark Tale takes the trophy from me for being the more entertaining animation on screens now! Actually I could have been a tad biased because Shark Tale has a hip-hop soundtrack... =p

(Working at the car wash... woo wo yeah yeah YEAH...)