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"Eh, I got a fish hook stuck in my thumb. Leaves the fish shop, walks over to the Harvey's Clinic. "I have a doctor's appointment today, so if you need to buy anything you'd better hurry." Starts working at the counter in the fish shop, goods are available for sale. Goes back inside fish shop from the beach. Wakes up for the day, goes fishing outside his fish shop. Below are his schedule deviations prioritized highest to lowest (for example when it rains that schedule will override all others below it) His schedule can deviate if there are specific conditions like season, weather, or certain days of the week. Willy's shop is closed on Saturday while he's out fishing unless it's raining in which case he'll keep the shop opened. On the 9th of Spring, he has an appointment at the clinic. During winter he'll go to the saloon instead of the beach after work. He'll often do more fishing on the beach after closing up shop until about 10:00 PM. Most days Willy wakes up at about 6:10 AM, and fishes at the beach for a few hours before operating his fish shop between 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. His shop is open every day but will be closed on Saturday if the weather is nice enough for him to go fishing. He sells bait and fishing supplies in his shop. Willy is a villager who grew up traveling among the Fern Islands and now lives south of Pelican Town on The Beach. In Willy's case, the search is a literal trek obstructed by ecological dangers.“A true angler has respect for the water. Both the young protagonist, Jesse (Jason James Richter), and the title orca are in search of that hallowed unit. The enduring strength of this unexpected franchise is its theme of family.
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But once free of clunky plot constraints, the continuing family saga is a swimmingly satisfying emotional yarn that should ring up comparably upbeat numbers, in all media, to those of its predecessor. Initially one senses that "Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home" is caught rudderless in a dreaded whirlpool and will wind up seeming more mechanical than any of the picture's pod of whales. John Considine Every sequel must confront the perilous waters known as the sea of familiarity. Reviewed at Mann Theater, Westwood, June 24, 1995. Palmisano second unit camera, Gary Holt casting, Judy Taylor, Lynda Gordon. Merrifield, Sherry Fadely assistant director, Van Wyck second unit directors, Michael McAlister, Conrad E. Toback set decoration, Casey Hallenbeck costume design, Erica Edell Phillips sound (SDDS), Robert Janiger whale effects supervisor, Walt Conti animatronic whales created by Edge Innovations associate producers, Mark Marshall, Douglas C. Camera (Technicolor Panavision widescreen), Laszlo Kovacs editors, Robert Brown, Dallas Puett music, Basil Poledouris production design, Paul Sylbert art direction, Gregory Bolton set design, Mindy R. Screenplay, Karen Janszen, Corey Blechman, John Mattson, based on characters created by Keith A. Executive producers, Richard Donner, Arnon Milchan, Jim Van Wyck. Produced by Lauren Shuler-Donner, Jennie Lew Tugend. release in association with Le Studio Canal Plus, Regency Enterprises and Alcor Films of a Shuler-Donner/Donner production. Its most serious misstep is when Michael Jackson’s theme song stops the action to focus on inane images.Ī Warner Bros. Handsomely produced and politically correct, “Free Willy 2” avoids stumping for environmental concerns or family values. The mechanical whales rarely betray their wire-and-mesh origins and remain secondary to the film’s human elements. Technical credits are clean and crisp without being cold. And when the high energy finale kicks in, emotions run high and culminate in a charged wrap-up. Schellenberg and Madsen are masters of underplaying their matter-of-fact attitude makes palatable and credible what would otherwise be improbable, melodramatic material. But he’s real and confident, and that adds up to an attractive combination. Richter is an unusual young lead in that he’s not unduly charismatic nor classically handsome. Certainly the ensemble cast contributes to steering the material away from the mire of sentimentality. It ought to be a breathless mess, and it’s difficult to say precisely why it isn’t. Family trauma is juxtaposed with physical peril, echoes of Jesse’s troubled youth reverberate in Elvis’ life and Native American folklore clashes with industrial expedience. The script, credited to Karen Janszen, Corey Blechman and John Mattson (Blechman co-wrote the original), is nothing if not ambitious. Director Dwight Little may be a tad awkward in his form, but he does manage to keep all the balls in the air.
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The movie is less a narrative arc than it is a juggling act. Add to all this personal angst an oil tanker gone aground and bleeding into the whale lanes off Washington state and you have “Free Willy 2” in a tightly packed nutshell.