The Medallion & Shark Tale

The Medallion was Jackie Chan at a pretty bland point. The main problem was that there was way too many really obvious wire work. It seemed like there were only about five bits with Jackie doing his stunts. Way too many flying through the air. After the first time of "What the hell, Jackie?" I just gave up on the movie being anything particularly good. Lee Evans was pretty wasted in the movie, and his wife, the extremely hot Christy Chung, never really had anything at all to do. Julian Sands should go back to flashing his penis in period pieces as well. What was Gimli doing? How can you misuse a great actor like Anthony Wong in that way? Claire Forlani again proves that just because you're attractive doesn't mean you can act. And man, that accent sounded fake, even though she's English. Maybe she can do an American accent well.

Shark Tale was typical Dreamworks Animation crap. If they could do half the heart that Pixar is able to put into their movies, and pair that with a third of the references to other entertainment and product placements, then they might actually make a good movie. Their animation is weaker than Pixar's, but that can be ignored if they would attempt to make a movie rather than an excuse for a lead to suck for an hour and a half. And they wasted Angelina Jolie and Jack Black. Jack was terrible in this. I'm pretty sure it was the script. Really, just a waste of money. No wonder Dreamworks Animation is tanking of late. Well, mainly because they haven't yet made a good movie, but I expect that to change in around a month with the release of the new Wallace & Gromit picture. Because really, Nick Park can do no wrong. Too bad you can't say that for Dreamworks Animation.