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[Teddman]

I noticed that I got a couple of these emails spammed in my inbox, encouraging me not to see Shark Tale. I was kind of amused, and immediately thought of Ned Flander's thread here about the movie. ...

Looks like the grassroots boycott campaign fell flat, given the $49 million box office last weekend! Anyone else get these?

Subj:
Shark Tale, the new DreamWorks cartoon movie, is NOT appropriate for children

Shark Tale, the new DreamWorks cartoon movie, is NOT appropriate for children!

Thats why I'm not letting my kids see Shark Tale, even though they will beg and plead. Lord knows they have seen enough ads. But in this movie almost everyone is a gross stereotype. An African American fish has a gambling problem. He is in debt and tries to lie his way out of it.

The gangster sharks have Italian-American names like Lino, Guiseppe and Vito. And they are ignorant, violent and racist.

A Latino mother blasts her stereo out the window and screams out the window
at her juvenile delinquent children who spray paint the neighborhood.

Negative stereotyping is wrong. Bigotry is wrong. Most importantly, it is NOT appropriate for young minds. Tell the Hollywood billionaires you wont play their game letting them get rich by hurting children. And we know that once a wrong idea gets in a childs head, it takes a lot of work to get it out.

Take action now!

Subj:
Steven Spielberg, Robert Dinero promoting Italian bigotry?

Steven Spielberg's children's Movie Shark Tale negatively stereotypes Italian Americans. The gangster sharks have Italian-American names like Lino, Guiseppe and Vito. And they are ignorant, violent and racist.

Stereotyping is an ugly, discredited practice. It creates and reinforces bias and prejudice. Once imprinted, bias and prejudice are not easily undone. It is entirely inappropriate in a movie for children.

Robert Dinero plays Don Lino a cartoon Crime Boss. A Latino mother blasts her stereo out the window and screams out the window at her juvenile delinquent children who spray paint the neighborhood.

Negative stereotyping is wrong. Bigotry is wrong. Most importantly, it is NOT appropriate for young minds.

Tell the Hollywood billionaires you won’t play their game – letting them get rich by hurting children. And we know that once a wrong idea gets in a child’s head, it takes a lot of work to get it out.

Take a moment to moment to write the profiteers of the movie. Tell them what you think.

 

[Lil' Dice]

Stereotypes make moviemaking so much easier though.....

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Wait, why the hell are Italians still insulted? Do they really have a right to be pissed off at the man getting them down anymore? I don't get it. Are the Irish gonna be pissed off if I make a movie that stereotypes them as eating potatoes and drinking guisness all day long or something?

 

[NotMSRP]

so ugly
who approved this crappy design?

 

[jooey]

so ugly
who approved this crappy design?

a long time ago, before I knew who was voicing who, I was convinced that was angelina jolie's character and not will smith's. now I'm extra scared of it.

 

[Teddman]

What if Ned Flanders himself began this email campaign? :0

 

[tedtropy]

And the fish voiced by Wil Smith has big lips! When will the typecasting end?!?

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

=(

The world is garbage. (the people complaining)

 

[Smiles and Cries]

wait until they get a load of MADAGASCAR

http://www.madagascar-themovie.com/

 

[Dan]

Bah, don't blame Spielberg, Katzenberg's the ass in charge of the animation department. Spielberg doesn't touch that stuff.

 

[ohamsie]

But it has the hidden enemy in the background, just like Pikmin 2's boxart!

 

[Mega Man's Electric Sheep]

Madagascar doesn't look as bad as Shark Tale. The penguins are kinda funny. "You didn't see anything!"

 

[bjork]

What is this internet nonsense when there's dishes to be washed...