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Teenage Alyssa is taken to live with her estranged father in the Bahamas, where she discovers a gift for communicating with dolphins. But when her father's dolphin research facility is threatened, the girl and her cetacean friend hold the key.
Apr 21, 2007 Wide
Jan 8, 2008
Monterey Media Inc.
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There's a pleasantly dreamy quality to much of Eye of the Dolphin, and that goes a long way toward enabling audiences to ignore the formulaic plot and enjoy the laid-back charms of this innocuous indie.
For all its good intentions, Eye of the Dolphin is unsteady and amateurish, with its own problems in getting its message across.
There's real heart to be found in the story but it comes along with borderline saccharine sentimentality, a too facile ending, and clean outcomes that aren't earned.
As Eye of the Dolphin makes some jarringly contrived plot twists, a viewer can imagine writer/director/executive producer Michael Sellers listing his assets and pondering how to combine them for one movie.
A limp coming-of-age tale set in the Bahamas.
A beautiful Grand Bahama island setting and majestic sea creatures can't offset an inert script and lackluster acting.
Drugs and drinking make waves in family drama.
[An] unassuming, but sadly unexciting, family film.
The underwater parts of Eye of the Dolphin are kind of pretty. Unfortunately, the rest of this waterlogged drama is pretty ugly.
Eye of the Dolphin is much better than most films of this sort, and if it helps a generation of young girls want to grow up to swim with live dolphins rather than groom My Little Ponys, that's certainly not a bad thing at all.
A lonely dolphin serves as a mediator in the reconciliation of a father and daughter who don't know how to connect with each other.
There are too many fishy family crises and too few fishlike mammals in this earnest 'Flipper' update, which soft-pedals its New Age agenda until a climactic speech that promises we can learn from our dolphin pals 'not just intellectually but spiritually.'
This indie, a Flipper for tweens, boasts winning roles by Bogie and Bacall, a pair of dolphins. The human actors don't fare as well.
If only the wooden acting moved with the fluidity of the underwater footage, the only bright spot in this clunky drama.
For all its good intentions, this film is unsteady and amateurish, with its own problems getting its message across.
Carly Schroeder is strong and the film's genuineness compensates for the 'after school special'-style script and production values, making it a pleasant, even uplifting film.
Acting is not very good, but it was okay. I was bored in the beginning but it eventually caught my attention and I finished it. I like the story...
August 25, 2007Super Reviewer
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