Shark Tale the world, measuring more than six stories tall and over . It required of air to inflate and more than 50 tons of water for stabilization. The premiere was attended by 6,000 visitors, including Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, and Michael Imperioli. Jeffrey Katzenberg, the executive producer of the film, explained that they "wanted to find a unique way to introduce this movie to the world. We needed a big idea. … More than anything, we are in showbusiness. This is the show part." "Shark Tale" opened at #1 with $47.6 million, which was, at the time, the
Shark Tale successful fish-focused animated features like Pixar Animation Studios' "Finding Nemo", which Ebert felt featured a simpler plot that audiences could more easily identify with. However, Richard Roeper commented that although the film wasn't on the same level as "Finding Nemo", it was definitely a film worth seeing. "Shark Tale" was released on DVD and VHS on February 8, 2005, accompanied with a DVD-exclusive animated short film "Club Oscar". The three-and-a-half-minute short film continues where the main film ends, showing the characters of "Shark Tale" dancing at the whale wash to a spoof of "Saturday Night Fever". It was also released