Emmet Walsh) want to place the whale in "protective custody," which is a nice way of saying they want to return him to captivity and sell more tickets. This leads to a subplot in which still more evil oceanarium owners (including the scheming M. When Jesse makes an effort to welcome him, Elvis' only answer is, " Whatever." Elvis is, in fact, a clone of the Jesse character in the first movie.Īs for Willy, after a tanker runs aground and an oil spill spreads ominously, marine life in the entire area is threatened. Jesse is not so happy to meet Elvis, a tough little kid who is hostile and aggressive. And Willy, who has been freed, is discovered again, and an environmental crisis threatens his home waters. Jesse's biological mother, who abandoned him and went to live in New York, dies - leaving him with a kid brother named Elvis ( Francis Capra) he didn't know he had. Life is serene, until two developments shake things up. This time, the film uses only animatronic whales, although their builders still have not moved their eyes any closer together.Īs the film opens, Jesse is living happily with his foster parents, and most of his behavioral troubles seem behind him. That problem has been avoided in "Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home" (the closing credits helpfully list an 800 number you can call to save the original Willy). After the movie was released, some irony developed when it turned out that the whale playing Willy was itself in captivity.
The villains in the original movie were guys who wanted to make money by exhibiting Willy. Only after he befriended a sad whale in the local oceanarium did he begin to get his life together and accept the love offered by Glen and Annie Greenwood ( Michael Madsen and Jayne Atkinson). What I liked about the earlier movie is that it wasn't really about the whale but about the young boy ( Jason James Richter), a troublesome loner named Jesse who was having a hard time adjusting to a new foster home.
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