You know how this ends, right? Of course you know how this ends. So the point of the film isn't the foregone conclusion, but the journey, which is... bland.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 9, 2017

It doesn't have the focus or splash of the original, but Charles Martin Smith's sequel winningly wears its heart on its sleeve and Winter plays herself to a crowd-pleasing tee.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2014

Mild fun ensues, but even the returning players can't divert us from all its narrative water-treading ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 2, 2014

A little long and rambling but it'll cheer up anyone still recovering from The Cove.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 2, 2014

Bland and mushy stuff indeed.

| Oct 2, 2014

This is innocuous, heart-in-the-right-place family fare, but its well-earned points about animal rights and preservation would be better taken if the relentless sentimentality didn't force viewers into flippers-in-the-air submission.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 14, 2014

With its important lessons of opportunity and hope, the sequel makes for fine family entertainment.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 14, 2014

Some angst away from the dolphin tank feels like padding, but there's enough bona fide narrative to please tomorrow's marine biologists and their parents.

| Sep 12, 2014

In a world full of cheapened, bombastic entertainment aimed at children, this modest, honest little movie feels special in its own way.

| Sep 12, 2014

...proves to be remarkably joyless when compared to the corny but effective charms of its predecessor.

| Sep 12, 2014

"Dolphin Tale 2" cares about the right things: the details of marine rescue, the dedication of the individuals involved, and the lives and personalities of the animals under their care.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 12, 2014

You'd be hard pressed to find a movie more wholesome and well intentioned.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 12, 2014

Children will revel in Dolphin Tale 2 with its rapturous, lovingly filmed sequences of dolphins playing, swimming, and generally frolicking about with each other and with their human friends.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 12, 2014

This is exceedingly mild entertainment.

| Sep 11, 2014

It's wholesome, engaging and rife with impressive aquatic photography.

| Sep 11, 2014

A sun-drenched pleasure for the whole family, heartwarming, funny, and beautifully performed by all, including Winter and Hope.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 11, 2014

There's some lovely underwater cinematography and a few dollops of suspense. But Dolphin Tale 2 is mostly an easy, breezy ride that will please younger audiences and their parents with its message of resilience and hope.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2014

"Dolphin Tale 2" is both uneventful and predictable, but it deserves credit for treating its nonhuman characters with respect.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 11, 2014

Dolphin Tale 2 is a slow-moving anomaly, delivered when most kids' films tumble over one another to see which can deliver the thrills faster and funnier.

| Original Score: B | Sep 11, 2014

Gamble and Zuehlsdorff are likable. Neither their looks nor their acting is airbrushed. Like Connick, they know the value of restraint.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2014