Very Cool!!!

Overrated

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

As said many times, love animation to bits (some of my all-time favourite films are animated) and always try to be kind to any film regardless of its quality when it's deserving of that. Am not going to lie and say that every animated film (or animation in general) is great, there are some terrible animated films out there.'The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer' is one of the biggest examples of terrible animation, despite being a generous and perceptive reviewer it is very difficult to be subjective and kind when talking about one of the biggest wastes of time ever encountered. Always look for redeeming qualities to bad or less films, 'The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer' has nothing to recommend it and children and adults alike will struggle to get any enjoyment out of it. Its least bad component is the animation of the water, the one animation detail that has any attention to detail but it looks only okay, never rising above that.It is frankly wasted by the animation in every other regard and throughout the entire film being so atrocious that it makes one feel physically ill looking at it. The colours are flat and lack any vibrancy or vividness, very little attention is paid to little things let alone bigger effects, the backgrounds are sparse, lack fluidity and never allows one to get immersed into a potentially magical world and it has the single most ugliest and stiffest character animation for dolphins (especially bad for a film full of robotic and ugly character designs for every character) for any animated film set under the sea.Music is frequently discordant, never fits and is likely to give younger audiences nightmares just hearing it. The script is awkward and muddled, with a lot of parts being over-explanatory, some parts being too complicated for younger viewers to properly understand it and a lot of other parts are incredibly juvenile that are so childish and unfunny to intelligence-insulting degrees. The story is never engaging or worth investing in emotionally, with far too much aimless exposition and a lot of stretched out scenes that go on for too long and go absolutely nowhere. Even adolescents and adults will find it difficult to comprehend what's going on.Furthermore, 'The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer' is one of the worst examples of target audience issues in a family film, with nothing for children and adults and with elements that will alienate people of all ages. There is a real sense that 'The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer' had no idea who it was aiming for and what it wanted to be. Adults will be insulted by the excessiveness and childishness of the often pointless potty humour while children will find the darker scenes constantly interjected with abrupt and jarring tonal shifts far too frightening and out of place. Pacing is all over the place dull.Characters are either annoying or deprived of personality, with a protagonist so devoid of endearing personality or development and full of aimless motivations and illogical decision making that he's impossible to root for, and not in a long time has there been more unintentionally creepy voice acting.In conclusion, undersea animation at its most amateurish (yes more so than 'Izzy's Way Home' and 'The Reef'), dullest and most nightmarish. 1/10 for the okay at best animation of the water only. Bethany Cox

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.

Awful says it all. The script reminds me of something I may have written in grade 5. You know how you're supposed to write a rough draft and then have it proofread, refined, rewritten, and then maybe 8 drafts later end up with the final copy? this felt like maybe... draft 1 or 2.The CGI was abysmal, the only movie with more awful CGI that I've seen is Hoodwinked (another awful awful movie!). The characters seemed to only have 2, possibly 3 facial expressions, none of which actually fit the scene they were in.AND THE SONG! Where to begin? how about staying on key? how about creative lyric writing? how about hiring someone older than 3 years old to compose your ONE AND ONLY song????? gag me with a mouldy barnacle.I went into this movie with the hope that I may have some killer one- liners to laugh about later. None existed. I was hoping for some lame lame lame scenes to shake my head at tomorrow and say, why did I watch this? The movie is even too lame to do that with! You remember in Junior High when you do something that just completely shakes your existence (in a bad way) ?? well, when I look back at having wasted 1.5 hours of my life on this film, those Junior High moments will loom up and superimpose themselves onto this film.How many more awful things can I say about this movie? tons. However, I don't want the producer/director/anyone else associated with it, to hunt me down and curbstomp me for going on and on and on about how terrible it was.Don't watch it. There are no redeeming qualities. I would rather have watched Passchendale than this movie.Oh, my Wife just reminded me of the ONLY funny part... when Daniel is trying to turn a shark into a Vegan, Carl is stuffing fish into a crack in the rock behind them. Yes, I chuckled at this part, but then proceeded to bash my head against the wall for the rest of the film and forgot about it.I think I'm getting close to the 1000 word max, so again, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS MOVIE.