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Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

1995

Dwight H. Little

Jason James Richter, Jon Tenney, Michael Madsen, Jayne Atkinson ...

4.0

6,759

Adventure Two years ago the boy Jesse helped the whale Willy to jump into freedom. Jesse enjoys the life with his adoptive parents, when his half-brother Elvis arrives because of the death of their mother. During a camping trip Jesse meets Willy again, as well as his Indian friend Randolph. A tender love develops between Jesse and Rudolph's goddaughter Nadine. Suddenly a crashed oil tanker endangers the whales, and several animal and human lives ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Caryn James The New York Times	"The film is sweet and sentimental but also fast and full of action, and shrewdly realistic about sibling hostility (...) 'Free Willy 2' may be the ideal family movie."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Kids who liked the first movie will probably like this one, too, but it felt like a retread for me (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"The producers of this sequel decided to take no chances and used mostly model whales. Unfortunately, they opted for a plastic replica plot, too (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Smoothly constructed (...) The concept that boys and whales both function best when surrounded by family is easy to digest"	POS
United States	Variety	"The movie is less a narrative arc than it is a juggling act. Director Dwight Little may be a tad awkward in his form, but he does manage to keep all the balls in the air."	NEU
United Kingdom	Philip Thomas Empire	"Goes for the heartstrings and, to an extent, hit them hard"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Maybe it takes time to mix the formula, but this is tons better entertainment than the original."	POS

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