As a movie designed to appeal to children, “Shark Tale” has a message that is morally fishy. First, Oscar the fish is an opportunist always looking to attain the easy life the easy way. He struggles with a gambling problem and borrows money from a mobster shark. Second, a great deal of deception occurs throughout this film from falsifying time cards at work to staging a fake death to hide the truth from others. Many will fall for the laughs hook, line and sinker, but “Shark Tale” is somewhat of a moral stinker.
Some Americans of Italian heritage have recently voiced to Dove their objection to “Shark Tale” and gangster stereotypes of Italian Americans for consumption by children.
