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List Price: $14.95 | | Label: Weinstein Company
Salesrank: 57625
Released: October 9, 2007 |
| Our Price: $6.98 |
| Used Price: $1.69 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
After losing everything, a young fish, Pi, goes to live with his family on the Reef. There he meets the love of his life but finds that she already has the unwanted affections of a bully shark. He must follow his destiny to save her and rid the Reef of this menace for good.
Description of The Reef:
The story of a young fish who suffers a great loss and moves to a new town where he falls in love with a beautiful fish and angers the resident shark bully, The Reef (initially known as Shark Bait) is a beautifully computer animated film with striking similarities to Finding Nemo and Shark Tale. The first Hollywood feature-length, all computer generated film ever made in Korea, The Reef won the Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence and is a great display of saturated colors, nice underwater detailing, and anthropomorphic animation that endows every fish with an abundance of character while retaining its believability as a fish. The voice talent is good and includes Freddie Prinze Jr. as Pi, Evan Rachel Wood as Cordelia, Fran Drescher as Pearl, Donal Logue as Troy, and Rob Schneider as a variety of sea creatures including Nerissa. The story is engaging, but the whole film watches like a Finding Nemo knock-off with scenes like the pelican bobbing on the channel marker, the Portuguese Man of War that populate the West Indies current, and the wise old turtle Nerissa who teaches Pi so much about the ways of the sea. Similarities to Shark Tale also abound, the most obvious being one little fish's determination to stand up to the big bully shark. Appropriate for ages 3 and older, although the initial scene where Pi's mother and father are caught in a fishing net may prove upsetting to very young or sensitive children. --Tami Horiuchi
The Reef Reviews:
we were pleasantly surprised 
2009-11-28 - this takes place in boston harbor and being from there is was amusing just as good as the other ones in this genra like nemo and such this is worth the money very funny
Great movie
2009-11-19 - This movie is really cute. The spinoff from Shark Tales. My son has watched it over and over. It is a nice storyline with good characters.
The reef
2009-05-10 - I mpurchased this video for my grandkids ages 8 mon to 3 years. They watch the movie over and over. A great buy.
Great to pass off the afternoon 
2009-04-06 - Got this under 10$ and im glad i bought it. Some reviewers hate it cause
it looks like other movies. Ive seen all other movies like Shark's take and
nemo...but when you like a movie, you want to see more of it...so this
movie is like a extension of other movies that i like... Cant lose with
this deal.
Anyway i enjoyed the reef, and cant wait for more computer animated movies.
So much better than Nemo
2008-11-28 - We bought this dvd for our 3 year old and he dearly loves it. It even held our attention. Given the choice of watching Finding Nemo or The Reef, he gladly chooses the Reef. This is a prime example just because a movie is heavily advertised doesn't mean it's a good one. We never saw any ads for the Reef but are so glad we came across it in the store!
