Dolphin Tale Reviews

Movie Reviews

• there really isn’t much need for the technology and rarely another moment where it's used to any appreciable effect

  by Bruce DeMara [Toronto Star ]

• the story packs in far too much, from multiple crises to several montages

  by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]

• the facts are well documented and Winter is still swimming up a storm with her new tail in Clearwater, where she is a big tourist attraction

  by Rex Reed [New York Observer ]

• surprisingly solid, earnest family pic

  by Andrew Barker [Variety ]

• precision engineered for full inspirational, heart-warming value

  by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter ]

• it's noted that visitors can go to see the dolphin at Clearwater (Fla.) Marine Aquarium

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• it's appreciative of what humans can do - of what a kid could do - to reach out to that mind

  by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]

• inspiring kid-engineered story of real-life courage and ingenuity

  by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]

• 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

  by Neil Genzlinger [New York Times ]

• has more in common with "The Swiss Family Robinson" than most modern live-action family movies, where slapstick and cheap laughs feed short attention spans

  by Peter Hartlaub [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• feels like Free Willy without the drama

  Review rate : B- by Keith Staskiewicz [Entertainment Weekly ]

• a swimming star injured in combat, but never slides into sanctimony or schmaltz

  by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]

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