Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Elijah WoodSandy Ricks
- Paul HoganPorter Ricks
- Jonathan BanksDirk Moran
- Robert DeaconBounty Fisherman #1
- Chelsea FieldCathy
- Mary Jo FaraciSandy's Mom
- Allison BertolinoSandy's Sister
- Jessica WessonKim
- Jason FuchsMarvin
- Mark CasellaBounty Fisherman #2
Recommendations
- 60
Time Out
Amiable yarn based on the mid-'60s TV series about a growing youngster and an orphan dolphin. - 50
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. - 50
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 that spawned two features and a popular TV series in the mid-1960s. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
One reason the Flipper flick is worse than the TV show: Bland, mannered Paul Crocodile Dundee Hogan plays Sandy’s uncle, Porter Ricks, instead of television’s wonderfully grumpy Brian Keith. - 50
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: Don't mess with Mother Nature. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
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. Audiences may walk away feeling that they got a pleasant dose of cinematic Dramamine, but that it takes a long time and is a little tedious en route. - 40
Empire
Even by the less-than-stressful standards of filmmaking for kids, this is disappointingly by-the-numbers effort. - 40
The New York Times
Ought to please an undemanding kiddie audience, but Flipper offers little else in the way of excitement or plot.
