Movie Review: Dolphin Tale

     The first scene was about swimmers. Definately my kind of movie.   

                   This is Cozi Zuehldorff. She played the part of Hazel, and acted VERY well. Especially for this being her first movie. She is my favorite actress now. A while back I read about her in an American Girl magazine, but it didn't tellthe name of the movie she was in. I didn't recognize it was the same movie until after a while when I saw her make an expression which made me remember her.

       The main character also did a very good job of acting, but there were a few iffy spots, so I think Cozi did better.

Here is the grading (I did it like school assignments).


   Plot: B+
 
  Acting: A

Characters: B-

 Heartfeltness: A+

Names: A (names I liked: Hazel, Sawyer, Lorraine. Names I didn't like: Kyle, Clay.)

Usage of Things I Like: A+++!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Swimming, dolphins, homeschoolers, grammar, etc.)

Goodness: B

Lack of Violence: A-  

Humor: A (slight, sweet, and tickly)


     Is there anything else I missed? Tell me if I forgot anything. 


       The main character was a boy named Sawyer who is extremely shy.  He is really bad at school, but likes to make and repair lots of toy airplanes and helicopters. He gets really worried because his cousin Kyle who he looks up to (the one who is a swimmer going to try out for the Olympics) leaves to go to the war. Sawyer finds a dolphin washed up on the shore. Her circulation was cut of from her tail for so long that she got a really bad infection and Hazel's family had to cut it off.  Sawyers mom has never seen him so excited about something for a long time, so she lets him help take care of  winter (the dolphin) instead of doing summer school. Winter learns to swim without a tail, and it is causing her spinal problems. They try to make prosthetics, but she doesn't like them and breaks them all. Meanwhile, people are running out of money, and Winter might have to be put down. Oh, by the way, it is based on a true story.  

      Dolphin Tale  was alot like two of my other favorite movies, Soul Surfer and How to Train Your Dragon, and now it can take its rightful place beside them in either second or third place.