OK, I started out watching this movie with my 5 year old son, thinking, "Ok, follow your dreams! That's cool, good message and all that." But that quickly turned into "Um, this has got to be the absolute lamest movie I've ever seen in my entire life." The whole movie had the feel of a bad Christian cartoon, but without the spiritual message. I take that back, Christian cartoons are better, and that is REALLY saying something. It's almost as if they took every cliché from every kids movie that takes place in the water and ripped it off but not very well. I can't believe this was "based on a book", I really can't. Someone actually got published with a plot like this? Really?? SPOILER (lol).. Apparently at the very end Daniel, rides the perfect wave and follows his dreams... so I guess he really wanted to surf or something, even though he is a dolphin and only really talked about surfing at the very beginning of the movie, right after doing the whole "Free Willy" jump out of the lagoon, with the moon in the background... I could go on all day about this, and to be honest, I did get some enjoyment out of this movie, because it was sooooooooo bad, that it was amusing to watch how bad it was. And I'm a little ashamed of my son (I say this in jest, I'll never be ashamed of my kid!)... I kept asking him if he liked the movie, or if it looked a little "weird", trying to draw it out of him, but he swore up and down that he liked it and it looked "good".... so maybe the movie will fool your kid too, but it certainly won't fool you.
Review of The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer
