Dolphin Tale (September 23, 2011)

[Moleman1138]

Release Date
September 23, 2011 (2D/3D)

Synopsis
Dolphin Tale is based on the true story about Winter, a bottlenose dolphin, who is rescued from a crab trap, had her tail amputated as was nursed back to health.

Starring:
Harry Connick Jr.
Morgan Freeman
Ashley Judd
Kris Kristofferson

It doesn't come out for two more weeks, but I saw an advance screening yesterday. Anyone planning to see Dolphin Tale?

http://youtu.be/IPBgg83WJiw

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Moleman1138

It doesn't come out for two more weeks, but I saw an advance screening yesterday. Anyone planning to see Dolphin Tale?

Um, no. (Unless it comes out on B3D, and then only as a discount rental at 3BR.com.)

The trailer looks generically harmless (the word for a movie with Morgan Freeman in it these days), but if it hadn't been a true story, it would've played like a Lincoln's-doctor's-dog parody of post-summer family-value films:
"Kid-and-dolphin movies are good...Inspirational amputee movies are good...Now, if we only had an inspirational amputee dolphin! "

[Moleman1138]

The trailer didn't make me think too highly of this movie. And that made it something I wasn't dying to see. But I saw it and it was good for what it was. It definitely plays more and better as an inspirational story like Soul Surfer than an animal story like Free Willy or Flipper.

[Agent Bond]

They should just made the movie about Flipper instead!

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Agent Bond

They should just made the movie about Flipper instead!

Nah, they already did that fifteen years ago, with Frodo Baggins and Crocodile Dundee.

[Foggy]

Dolphins with disability...PASS