"Free Willy 2" is not the kind of film that can teach children about coping with loss or reach them on anything but the most superficial level.

| Aug 3, 2020

This is so full of sentiment, it makes Lassie movies look positively heartless...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 3, 2020

Whenever Willy is on screen, things are OK. Otherwise, there are a lot of talking humans with problems. Phooey! Humans we can see any time.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 3, 2020

Goes for the heartstrings and, to an extent, hit them hard.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2020

Prepare for another hour and a half's worth of warm fuzzies. Willy the whale and his human pal, 14-year-old Jesse, are back together, and Moby Dick they aren't.

| Aug 3, 2020

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home makes sitting through the first film worthwhile.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 3, 2020

Willy's role is bigger than ever, and the movie is far more satisfying for it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2020

Little of the yarn is very adventurous, despite its title, but the watery scenes are prettily photographed by the great Laszlo Kovacs.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 30, 2019

A dreary retread of what wasn't a very good picture in the first place.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 16, 2017

Once free of clunky plot constraints, the continuing family saga is a swimmingly satisfying emotional yarn.

| Feb 23, 2012

The most fun in Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home is the good old-fashioned, ideologically neutral danger-and-heroism-and-rescue episode that wraps up this particular chapter of victory at sea.

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

This rote sequel will thrill Willy fans.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2010

Maybe it takes time to mix the formula, but this is tons better entertainment than the original.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 26, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 1, 2003

As strained and overloaded as it sounds, "Free Willy 2" is an even smarter and more endearing tale of family reconciliation than the original.

| May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 25, 2002

Fine family entertainment laced with ecological ideas.

| Aug 30, 2002

More boy. More whale. More sequel.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 26, 2002