Waiter, this fish has gone bad
2/10
If not the worst movie of 2004, it's certainly the most despicable.
When DreamWorks Animation was founded, they promised to do things differently from Disney, and audiences applauded them for it. As it turned out though, Disney's Pixar productions are loved the world over and DreamWorks' productions have become a joke. Doing things differently for Dreamworks seems to mean : get as many famous actors as possible, write a script completely reliant on pop culture references and try to sell as many soundtracks as possible by cramming the movie with flavor-of-the-month pop sensations.
For the rest, the movie has nothing to offer. No jokes, no eye-candy, the oldest, most predictable story in the book and an extremely tiring pace. I have nothing good to say about this movie. From it's characters talking "gangstah", over the cascade of pop culture references that won't mean anything to audiences five years from now, to the big finale with Missy Elliot fish and Christina Aguilera fish (a new low in moviemaking history) I was just watching with my jaw on the floor at how despicable (truly the best word to describe it) one film can be.
This movie wasn't made with creating a quality product in mind, the only thing that seems to have mattered for DreamWorks is how to promote the *** out of it. If there's one major difference between DreamWorks and Pixar, it's that the former's only concern is how to get you into the theater, while the latter is more concerned with how you will leave.