It is a performances centric movie

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Andre is based on a true story about a seal who's mother died and is raised by a little girl called Toni(played by Tina Marinjo) and her father played by Keith Carradine and his wife played by Chelsea Field. Toni of course is a very shy girl who hasn't got any real friends and is bulled in school with some girl called Mary.Of course she meets Andre as her father brings him home because his land is in trouble and its to dangerous for him to be left in sea. So Andre becomes part of the family. But Toni's sister is jealous of Andre and hates him because he ruined her day as she was doing something in the festival and has boy trouble with a boy played by a very young Joshua Jackson from Dawson Creek. So will Andre get back to his own sea and go into the wild or will he be left at the Aquarium?Bottom line I own this on VHS since I was a little girl and I really enjoyed this movie.I seen it about 2 nights ago as I normally watch it every year once and I love animal movies anyway so if you love animals than check it out. The story is very endearing and heartwarming and the cast was great especially the girl Tina Majorino who was in Grey's Anatomy in 2013 for a few episodes. Also the backgrounds are nice too as the film is set in Maine New England.Overall its a 7. And if you haven't seen it yet than get it in Amazon at a reasonable price.

It would be so nice to invite Andre over for dinner.... smothered in melted butter with an apple stuck in his mouth.A 'family film', supposedly based on a true story, "Andre" is an obnoxious seal whose most endearing quality is when he makes a fart sound with his lips -- aww, how cute. "Dad, can we keep him?".Keith Carradine obviously didn't have anything better to do when he accepted the role of an irresponsible seaport patrolman, Tina Majorino is cute as the little girl who befriends the slippery beast, and pretty Aidan Pendleton plays Tina's older sister who has more brains than anybody else in township because she hates Andre almost as much as I do and would like to see him cooked by 6:30 tonight.You know, seal really is good if you season it right.

Hi, I'm Camille Bajema reporting for KIDS FIRST! and today I'm reviewing the 1994 film "Andre," based on the book "A Seal Called Andre" which is based on a true story. I like this film because I'm an animal lover and this film is filled with animals."Andre" is about a little girl, Toni Whitney, played by Tina Majorina, who lives with her parents Harry and Thalice, played by Shane Meier and Chelsea Field; her sister, Paula, played by Aidan Pendleton; and her brother Steve, played by Keith Carradine. They have an assortment of animals, and decide to adopt an orphaned, baby seal that that they name Andre. Andre lives with the Whitney's for a few years, until a man from the health department shows up and wants to take Andre away!My favorite character in this film is Toni's mother, Thalice. I like Thalice because she is very loving toward her kids, yet also knows how to discipline them. My favorite scene in this movie is when Andre learns funny tricks and performs them for people on the pier. I like this scene because Andre is so cute and fun. An interesting fact is that Andre is played by a sea lion, not a seal, in the movie."Andre" is directed by George Miller and produced by Annette Handley. The music in this film sets the mood. The movie is filmed in a beautiful harbor in Rockport, Maine and I especially love the cinematography when the seasons change. This movie is a tear-jerker and Toni learns that despite how much she loves Andre she may have to let him go. This is a family-friendly movie and I recommend it to people of all ages. I give this film five-out-of- five stars because I thought that the movie was really well-done overall and had a great plot. I am pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed this movie so much because the picture on the cover made me think that it would appeal to a younger audience.

If you have never seen a movie about children and animals, you might really like this one. But if you've seen more than three or four of them, you'll probably feel this is a compilation of them. It's hard to believe that so many clichés could be put in one single movie. If you show it to your (younger) children they'll probably have a good time. If you don't expect much from it, you may join them. But if you skip some scenes, don't bother: you've surely seen them before. And if you want to see a family with a seal I'd strongly suggest "A Summer with Selik", a Norwegian 3-episode serial where fisherman struggle against nature and not against each other, and a family teaches a orphan seal to swim, catch a fish and survive, and not to play with a ball or pose in front of TV cameras. Although, you may have trouble to find it (I haven't even found it on IMDb!) ** some spoilers **Though most of the scenes are predictable, some are rather funny and watchable till film tries to become dramatic. A seal rescuing a little girl in a small boat from a stormy sea, and then the boat sinking at the very moment when her father appears after hours of searching, destroy last hope that this movie could stay on the average level of a family movie.Keith Carradine can't be bad if he has a role to act. In this films he reminds me on those tennis-stars who come to small tournaments just to appear and lose in 1st round, only to give some attention and dignity to local competition.Not the "avoid in any circumstance" movie, but every scene in it has already been made in some other (usually better) movies.