Movie : Dolphin Tale
Release Date : September 23, 2011 (3D/2D theaters)
Studio : Warner Bros. Pictures
Director : Charles Martin Smith
Screenwriter : Karen Janszen, Noam Dromi
Starring : Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson, Nathan Gamble, Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Austin Stowell, Morgan Freeman
Genre : Adventure, Family
Official Website : DolphinTalemovie.com
IMDB Rating : 5.3
Story : “Dolphin Tale,” the story of a maimed dolphin named Winter and the people who rescue her, is pitched awfully young, without a shred of the satire or subtlety that is generally found in films aimed at tweeners and above. That’s not a bad thing; it just means accompanying grown-ups or older siblings will have to choke down a sizable dose of schmaltz with their fish milkshakes.
The film is inspired by an actual dolphin rescue, though it is so larded up with manufactured drama — single-parent households, a hurricane, an animal rescue center facing bankruptcy, a boy whose favorite cousin is in a war zone — that it’s hard to tell what’s real. The gist of it, though, is this: Winter lost her tail after becoming entangled in a fishing net, and her rescuers fitted her with a prosthetic one to help her survive.
Nathan Gamble as the young rescuer in chief and Cozi Zuehlsdorff as the girl who befriends him make a decent enough kiddie couple, and Harry Connick Jr. is quite watchable as the girl’s father, who runs the rescue center. Everything, including the parallels between the dolphin and the injured war veterans who factor into the story, is made obvious enough that no 6-year-old could miss it. As for older viewers, they have to wait to the very end for their rewards: some glimpses of Winter’s real rescue and rehabilitation.
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