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Flipper

1996

Alan Shapiro

Paul Hogan, Elijah Wood, Chelsea Field, Isaac Hayes ...

3.7

7,524

Kids. Adventure Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environment until a new friend comes into his life, a dolphin named Flipper, that brings uncle and nephew together and leads Sandy on the summer adventure of a lifetime.

	Media	Author	Review
		Joe Leydon Variety	"The effectively offbeat casting of Paul Hogan and some impressive underwater cinematography do much to enliven Flipper, an otherwise unremarkable attempt to revive the franchise"
		Mark Caro Chicago Tribune	"Alan Shapiroisn't content to focus on aquatic mammalian high jinks. Instead, he must pack in virtually every family movie cliche of the '90"
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Like the original 1963 movie and the TV series, it expects us to be endlessly amused by a dolphin that does things that are endless but not amusing (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"The premise has been updated as a passable bit of family entertainment with essentially the same modus operandi but with a gentle pro-environmental message"
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Ought to please an undemanding kiddie audience, but Flipper offers little else in the way of excitement or plot."
		Peter Stack SFGATE	"The dolphins are charming, which is at least 50 percent of the concept of the film. The flip side is the film's predictability and shallow characters"

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