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...they get electrocuted, teach Tantric sex to senior citizens and rescue dogs from RV lavatories. (Imagine a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Meatballs, and you're close.) TIME's Josh Tyrangiel sat down with the Fockers (Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand and Ben Stiller) and the Byrneses (Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner and Teri Polo) to discuss comedy, Cialis, the unexpected tenderness of Kevin Costner and, in De Niro's case, to grunt quite...
ROBERT DE NIRO: [Low primal grumble...
ROBERT DE NIRO Taxi Driver...
...characterization of Lenny in the context of the film is important here. He has a domineering, alpha-male father (naturally voiced by Robert De Niro), a moronic brother who behaves like a compulsive frat boy and eats anything that moves and in addition he identifies himself as a vegetarian, a lover of all things living, and as “different from other sharks.” Sharks in the world of Shark Tale are the patriarchal keepers of the sea, the top of the food chain. Lenny’s refusal to kill and be “like...
Oscar the fish (voiced by Will Smith) is a little dude with a big mouth who becomes a hero under false pretenses, by saying he slew a shark--a shark who happens to be the son of Don Lino (Robert De Niro), the sea's feared codfather. To propel the plot, Don Lino's sissy son Lenny (Jack Black) befriends Oscar and his adoring friend Angie (Rene Zellweger). At its jauntiest, as when it shows Oscar at work in a whale car wash, Shark Tale is the Jaws that refreshes, but too often it just piles on the gags...