You couldn’t come up with a simpler, more nakedly inspirational story than the one told in Dolphin Tale: Unhappy, disengaged child of single mom finds a wounded dolphin caught in a trap’s ropes and cuts it free; proceeds to bond with the rescue group that’s working to rehabilitate said dolphin; becomes a chief player in dolphin’s gradual and difficult return to swimming with confidence.
But even if Dolphin Tale hits every note square on the nose — or maybe because it does — watching it is surprisingly pleasurable. Part of the appeal is the fact that the dolphin in the movie plays a version of herself: In real life, as in the movie, this dolphin’s name is Winter, and in Florida in 2005, when she was just a baby, she became entangled in the ropes of a crab trap. She lost circulation in her tail, which then had to be amputated. In order to swim again Winter needed to be outfitted with a prosthetic tail, but finding a way to attach it proved difficult. Technicians eventually developed a special, extremely soft sleeve material that came to be called “Winter’s Gel”; it’s now used with human prosthetics as well.
And face it, dolphins just have great on-screen presence. OK, they do all look alike. But it’s still easy to root for Winter, with her arrow-shaped smile and mischievous eyes. It doesn’t hurt that director Charles Martin Smith — who may be better known as an actor from his roles in pictures like American Graffiti and The Untouchables — has a relatively light touch. Even when the…
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