This is innocuous, heart-in-the-right-place family fare, but its well-earned points about animal rights and preservation would be better taken if the relentless sentimentality didn't force viewers into flippers-in-the-air submission.
Dolphin Tale 2
Winter’s amazing true story... now has Hope.
2014 · 1h 47m · PG Drama, Family
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Dolphin Tale 2
Overview
The team of people who saved Winter's life reassemble in the wake of her surrogate mother's passing in order to find her a companion so she can remain at the Clearwater Marine Hospital.
Director and cast
- Nathan Gamble as Sawyer Nelson
- Winter The Dolphin as Self
- Cozi Zuehlsdorff as Hazel Haskett
- Harry Connick Jr. as Dr. Clay Haskett
- Ashley Judd as Lorraine Nelson
- Kris Kristofferson as Reed Hasket
- Morgan Freeman as Dr. Cameron McCarthy
- Bethany Hamilton as Herself
- Julia Winter as Peyton
- Austin Stowell as Kyle Connellan
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Some angst away from the dolphin tank feels like padding, but there's enough bona fide narrative to please tomorrow's marine biologists and their parents.
In a world full of cheapened, bombastic entertainment aimed at children, this modest, honest little movie feels special in its own way.
Children will revel in Dolphin Tale 2 with its rapturous, lovingly filmed sequences of dolphins playing, swimming, and generally frolicking about with each other and with their human friends.
This is exceedingly mild entertainment.
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