Monotreme
07-19-2007, 04:36 PM
So I'm at the multiplex earlier today catching Transformers, and I see this movie poster out of the corner of my eye:
http://www.the-fun-zone.co.uk/moviespics07/reef_poster.jpg
At first glance, I immediately dismissed it as a poster left over from Shark Tale three years ago for some reason. But then they showed the trailer before the movie, and I must say I was shocked.
How can a movie like this even be produced? I don't know where to begin! Forget the fact that the graphics looked worse than Pixar's oldest 1980's short films and that it was created by a studio that, as far as I can tell, doesn't even exist. But never before have I seen a movie that more obviously rips off another movie in my LIFE! This is worse than all those The DaVinci Caper or Snakes on a Train or all those rip-offs that are from the same studio - and for all I know this one is too.
Apparently this film was called "Shark Bait" in the USA although I have no idea when it was released in the first place, if at all. And from the trailer and images, the movies it rips off - Finding Nemo and Shark Tale - are so dominantly featured it's amazing they didn't sue for copyright infringement. What's funnier is that Shark Take is even sort of a rip-off of Finding Nemo in the first place, so this is like a rip-off of a rip-off!
I'm too lazy to search for them on the net, but allow me to assure you that the trailer is simply full of shots that are practically carbon copies of identical shots in Finding Nemo and Shark Tale.
This shot pretty much sums up both the film's total rip-off nature and the god-awful quality of its animation:
http://www.koreafilm.co.kr/movie/today_movie3/sharkbait_5.jpg
We live in a sad, sad world.
http://www.the-fun-zone.co.uk/moviespics07/reef_poster.jpg
At first glance, I immediately dismissed it as a poster left over from Shark Tale three years ago for some reason. But then they showed the trailer before the movie, and I must say I was shocked.
How can a movie like this even be produced? I don't know where to begin! Forget the fact that the graphics looked worse than Pixar's oldest 1980's short films and that it was created by a studio that, as far as I can tell, doesn't even exist. But never before have I seen a movie that more obviously rips off another movie in my LIFE! This is worse than all those The DaVinci Caper or Snakes on a Train or all those rip-offs that are from the same studio - and for all I know this one is too.
Apparently this film was called "Shark Bait" in the USA although I have no idea when it was released in the first place, if at all. And from the trailer and images, the movies it rips off - Finding Nemo and Shark Tale - are so dominantly featured it's amazing they didn't sue for copyright infringement. What's funnier is that Shark Take is even sort of a rip-off of Finding Nemo in the first place, so this is like a rip-off of a rip-off!
I'm too lazy to search for them on the net, but allow me to assure you that the trailer is simply full of shots that are practically carbon copies of identical shots in Finding Nemo and Shark Tale.
This shot pretty much sums up both the film's total rip-off nature and the god-awful quality of its animation:
http://www.koreafilm.co.kr/movie/today_movie3/sharkbait_5.jpg
We live in a sad, sad world.