Listen, Shark Tale is a modern classic and I don’t know if it’s the weirdly good animation, the insanely expressive motion capture, but like there’s so much to love.
Lenny is obv queer-coded as a vegetarian shark who fears his family will never accept him for who he is also he does drag as a dolphin (dad says “I love you no matter what you eat or how you dress”)
Lola is a superficial queen who’s totally true to herself like she even says the moment she and Oscar meet “deep down, I’m really superficial” and what a petty queen like
Me when the pliers won’t grab the nut even though I’m using my grippers the right way
Angie makes like a small visual gag about being friend-zoned but after Lola and Oscar kiss she’s not mad that he’s kissing someone else but she’s mad that A) he fell for someone who said TO HIS FACE she didn’t care about him unless he was the Sharkslayer and B) when he says “nobody loved me when I was a nobody” and she says I DID. And instead of making it about being “friendzoned” because I don’t believe Angie would ever do something like that, she’s mad that he keeps implying the people that loved him as he was don’t matter. Because she could probably just be his best friend forever but she deserves acknowledgment for being a great part of his life.
There’s a dolphins vs sharks joke (look he’s even got dolphin muscle! My uncle Vito got whacked by one of those)
And Bernie and Ernie like my boys my babies
Oh and Lola is a top. Oscar is a bottom. Canonically.
