Free Willy (1993)

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Don't Believe the Hype

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I watched this movie before, I'm not sure if during the 90's or early 2000's. It's good. It is very touching. This movie is not just for kids but for the family as a whole. The true meaning of friendship can be seen. We must love animals because they are our friends. Today is year 2018 and I am still watching this movie.Cheers!Sorry for my bad english

The early 1990s had a row of kid movies that now are cult.Count in movies like Problem Child and Home Alone.Also this movie Free Willy from 1993.This is about a boy that befriends a whale in an amusement park.Villains will kill the whale, so the boy and his friends must free Willy.This ends in the trademark Picture with the whale jumping over the boy.Stay at the end credits.Beautiful locations and music.Some good, but also corny acting too.Deserved some Academy Awards for sound and music.Now find this movie in the local mall or second hand store.8/10

Although we could not deny that there are many other films that feature aquatic animals, what makes Free Willy different from other related films are its twists, distorted character profiles, and exciting plot.Why would the director or the writer even think of having Jesse's mind baffled instead of just making it smoother by having Jesse focused on what he is doing? But those flabbergasting twists are what makes Free Willy a good movie. It never ran out of good ideas to convolute the screen portrayal so that the audience may be stimulated. In fact, boredom seldom touched me, being an audience and a critic.There were just some scenes that irritates me because I believe that the producers could have intensified these sequences even more by adding some action scenes so that they may be able to add a greater tension on the viewers and that the audience may really feel and take in what is happening on screen.The animatronic stand-in that was used in most close-up scenes of Willy also was quite good. There was never a time when the CGIs (Computer Generated Effects) failed. They really looked like real and natural. And the stunts made, although was created with the extensive use of CGI, was perfect and was pleasing to the eyes.The screen portrayal of the actors and actresses also were quite good and was enough to please the audience.The musical scoring of the movie was satisfactory, nevertheless. It was good especially during the crises of the movie, but I was expecting for more since musical scoring are a great factor to catch the audience.I guess there's not much to say about this movie because I believe that its succeeding sequels are enough to prove how successful the movie is and that couldn't have been achieved if the quality was poor. All in all, congratulations to the movie and the people behind its production.8 out of 10 for you guys!

OK, so "Free Willy" makes a point about animal rights, but it really could've dealt with the topic more seriously. I later saw Keiko while he was in the Oregon aquarium (and he showed the audience a little more than they bargained for, let's just say). They later moved him to Iceland, where he died in 2003. Personally, I don't think that they had to compose a new song for the movie, since the previous 25 years had produced a number of environmental songs (one of the best was Joan Baez's theme song for "Silent Running", a movie that now seems so realistic as to be redundant). But anyway, the movie is worth seeing.Oh, and props to Groucho Marx for the pun that I used in the review title.