Shark Bait
| Shark Bait (AKA: The Reef: Shark Bait) | |
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South Korean film poster
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| Hangul | 파이 스토리 |
| Revised Romanization | Pai seutori |
| McCune–Reischauer | P‘ai sŭt‘ori |
| Directed by | Howard E. Baker John Fox |
| Written by | Scott Clevenger Chris Denk Anurag Mehta Timothy Wayne Peternel |
| Starring |
Freddie Prinze, Jr. Evan Rachel Wood Donal Logue Andy Dick Fran Drescher John Rhys-Davies and Rob Schneider |
| Music by | Christopher Lennertz |
| Edited by | Tom Sanders |
| Distributed by |
CJ Entertainment The Weinstein Company (USA) Warner Bros. (UK) |
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Running time
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77 minutes |
| Country |
United States South Korea |
| Budget | $10 million |
| Box office | $13,662,815 |
Shark Bait (The Reef: Shark Bait in the UK, Australia and North America, Pi's Story in South Korea) is a 2006 South Korean-American computer animated film. The plot revolves around Pi and his attempt to win the heart of Cordelia while dealing with a tiger shark that is terrorizing him and the reef's inhabitants. The film was a commercial failure. It was largely criticised for borrowing heavily from other films such as Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo, DreamWorks' Shark Tale, and Walt Disney's The Little Mermaid (and at one point, a reference to Star Wars and The Karate Kid), and despite the talented actors and comedians involved in the voiceover work, was a box-office bomb. Despite being an American-South Korean co-production, the movie did not receive a theatrical release in the United States, where it was released direct to DVD in 2007.
A direct-to-DVD sequel, The Reef 2: High Tide was released in 2012.
Pisces, or Pi (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), is a 5-year-old orange fish that lives happily with his parents Pike and Piper in the polluted harbor of Boston, Massachusetts, until a fishing boat scoops them from the sea. Pi's parents manage to help him escape, but cannot escape themselves. Before Pi's parents are taken away, Piper tells Pi to promise her he would go live with his aunt. Pi's porpoise friends Percy (Trent Ford) and Percy's mother Meg (Megahn Perry) agree to take him, but Pi refuses to leave in case his parents return, Meg sadly tells him that once anyone is taken by a net they can never come back; Pi feels depressed knowing he is now an orphan. Meg and Percy take Pi to live with his aunt Pearl on an exotic reef. When Pi reaches the reef, he is 18 years old and has stayed with the porpoises for most of his life. As he tries to settle himself in this new world, the sweet and well-meaning Pi makes some good friends in his new home, the first residents Pi comes across are three elderly marlins named Moe, Jack, and Manny, which direct him towards Pearl's home. On his way there, Pi immediately falls in love with Cordelia (Evan Rachel Wood), a celebrity fish that has appeared on the front cover of National Geographic. He also meets his cousin Dylan (Andy Dick), that quickly becomes Pi's best friend.
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