99 times out of a hundred, my husband and I are disappointed in the children's films we rent for our chitlins. In one way or another, the content becomes either extremely wacky or there are scenes we would prefer our little pups not to see. Moreover, before we rented the film we read the reviews and the marks for the qualtiy...and we weren't enthusiastic about taking the risk. With that being said, the kids seemd to enjoy the movie, my husband liked seeing a couple of his NFLers playing roles and I coughed-up a few laughs myself. There were a couple slower moments than the rest of the movie, but no movie's perfect. I will probably end-up buying the movie because my kids have already asked to rent it again, soooooooooo, 8 out of 10 is my overall grade.

As soon as the opening scene began, you could tell this was a low-budget film solely based on the design and cinematography. That's before a single character was even introduced. And then they introduced the characters and it somehow got even worse. The attempt to not only develop but even introduce characters for the film were cliche at best. At worst, some of the actors couldn't even decide who they wanted to be. The step-son, supposedly from California, dresses like a member of a biker gang with a leather jacket and bandana. His personality, however, depicted by the movie, is that he is a ganster-like gang member who talks in urban black-culture lingo. And then the actor's actual voice is very hick-like, which contradicts the entire premise that he is a California kid moving to a small, gumpy town. All of this was apparently not important in casting...? This is just one example.The overall acting is what makes it the worst movie I've ever seen. I can't really put it into words, so just please take my word for it. There is no attempt at any dialogue flow or scene transition. The adult actors might even be worse than the kids. I'm assuming a lot of the reviews for this film were done by members of the staff, because no sane viewer would give this more than a 3 star rating. Ignore the reviews of how great and inspiring this film is for young viewers. It has profanity and verbal abuse throughout. There are thousands of better options for your kids.Please, for the love the God, don't watch this attempt at a movie.

OK, first off ... I'm only reviewing this because it had a rating of 7.9, with 2 "10/10" reviews, one of them written by someone who hadn't even watched it yet! In other words, this movie has been pumped up by shill reviewers, and I don't approve.The movie premise is simple enough, the main kid actor is cute, and sure it's fun to see our pro athlete friends have fun on screen, but it's a "C" movie at best.2 or 3 songs are used repeatedly throughout the movie as background, probably from the low-cost stock music libraries, and I don't think there was an acting coach anywhere in sight.I enjoyed the thug who could only grunt. When he finally spoke Spanish in one scene, I noticed! Then he slipped back to the grunts ... much like "Eddie" the hyena from the Lion King.My "laugh out loud" moment was when the kids threw the cameo net on the thug in the pool, and HE PULLED IT OVER HIMSELF WHILE THE CAMERA WAS ON HIM :) This movie should have a 3.1 IMDb rating at best.

So, I took my kids to see Dolphin Tale and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. It was a beautiful movie with lots and lots of heart, we all cried for winter and the little boy. The actor that played the little boy (Nathan Gamble) was amazing. Dolphin Tale reminded me a lot of a couple of my other favorite animal movies. There were also quite a few actors I recognized in the movie that had several roles in supporting positions. I saw Frances Sternhagen that played the sheriff's wife in Misery with Kathy Bates (whom I adore as an actress). And then I see an actor from my soap All My Kids named James Fitzpatrick, (whom was also in Dolphin Tale). So, I do a little research on the IMDb and find out that James (All My Kids) too, has worked with Kathy Bates, in a movie titled Curse of the Starving Class, also starring James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr. and the actor from ET.(that played the little boy).But then I noticed that James Fitzpatrick (All My Kids) is in this movie Adventure Scouts, when we watch the movie clip. My girls would like to see this cute looking movie.Great job actors.