Pretty Good

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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

I don't know where to start?? This movie was THE single worst movie I've seen in my life(at least as long as I can remember) filled to it's below standard brim with new age dribble. Horrible God references. My daughter was watching it one night and I actually took it out and threw it away, something I've NEVER done with ANY of her movies. Please I can't stress enough, don't lead your children astray and let them watch this dung heap of a movie. I actually created an account to leave this review

OK, before I get laughed outta court having read the other reviews here - here's what this thing's main problem is - background/foreground interaction. Whoever did the backgrounds, INCLUDING the water, REALLY knew that animation package - they were superb. The problem IS - he should have been given control of ALL the animation including the foregrounds, the creatures were a leetle ropey. Their perspective was dodgy front-end on and you DID glimpse the waves THROUGH the baddie's mouth sometimes. And the mouth movements didn't quite keep up with the words but don't forget the English version's a redub. (That's not budget - they had the software - that's just sloppiness in using it.) So for sure it had techie issues. BUT.... I loved its song (honest!) I think there was room for a Group Sing at the end too. I loved its message - was at a low point when I watched it and the 'Follow Your Dream' message sure gave me a much-needed kick in the pants! Its audience was little kids and it wasn't QUITE engaging enough - again true - but techie issues aside I loved all the characters. I wish Daniel had kept his g/f, I'd've loved to see them surf that wave together even if they did part afterwards. But it's well worth its 6/10 for the guy who did the backgrounds. I felt every bit of heart he put into them, kudos to him, I hope he gets much more work outta it. I felt a lot - not all - of people put a lot of work/heart into that thing, if the WHOLE team had done - money men included - it would've been a winner. Remember the message. Remember the lovely water and gorgeous backgrounds. And it should've been called DANIEL - Story of a Dreamer (The Dolphin's too generic.) Missed opportunity - if you're being harsh, yes. I prefer to call it a slightly flawed pearl. But it's NOT the waste of space others are calling it, go along with it for the ride and you'll come out on the crest of Daniel's wave.Chris.

First of all, I have to say I find it hysterical that the first 3 reviews in IMDb are glowing reviews for this movie and the rest are... what they are. This is the worst movie I've ever seen. I don't know what was worse, the horrible script, disturbing characters or creepy music. And what's the deal with the baby dolphin using stinky farts to breath? That's supposed to be funny or something? I can't believe I wasted 1.5 hours of my life to watch this mindless drivel. I think I lost brain cells and I'm stupider for having watched it. It's an hour and a half of my life I'll never get back. I did learn one important lesson from watching this movie: read reviews before you watch ANYTHING. I normally LOVE kids movies but this was terrifying! Ew did you see the way the Sunfish kinda melted into the distance? Freak me out! The gigantic barracuda was terrifying. I really didn't see anything good about this movie other than the waves and backgrounds. And trust me, these might be very pretty, but they are NOT a good enough reason to watch this movie. I am glad I didn't let a kid watch it, they'd have nightmares for years. I know I sure will. So anyway, in conclusion, this movie is terrible in every way imaginable, don't watch it if you know what's good for you. It really should be taken out of circulation, brought to an empty lot in the middle of the night thrown in a bin and set ablaze with copious amounts of lighter fluid. Seriously... it's that bad.

I sat through this whole pile of drivel in utter bewilderment. I have seen an awful lot of films, therefore I have seen a huge amount of bad, very bad and utterly terrible pieces of cinema. But The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer is the world heavy weight champion of bad films. The narration and dialogue is almost painful to listen to, the story is a feeble attempt at a coming of age drama and the animation will make you want to close your eyes. I have friends who get together periodically to watch cheap, cheesy and deficient movies, I told them to try this one and even they were flabbergasted. If you haven't seen it find a copy, sit back and take it all in. See how long you can last. I only sat through it because my 2 and 4 year old were watching it, and they would watch a brick wall for 90 minutes if it was a cartoon brick wall.