Like a few of the other comment posters, I too saw this film when I was about 4 or 5 and it horrified me! Along with "All Dogs go to Heaven", this movie gave me recurring, disturbing thoughts and freaked me out! I distinctly remember the creepy, bubbly music that plays at the start of the movie and the nasty paper crumpling sound and appearance the orcas (killer whales) made when they where slammed by the adult whales defending the wayward calves. I also remember the lifeless bodies of several whales, especially the eerily grinning oil-coated baleen whale that saved Samson at one point. The scene I most vividly remember was when these humans in a lifeboat shoot Samson when he tries to help them in the mistaken belief that he is attacking them causing him to accidentally capsize their boat and drown them!
I re-rented this video upon entering ninth grade and now have a much better appreciation of it. It quite sobberingly portrays many realistic environmental issues and the very negative relation humans have with nature i.e., whaling, toxic waste disposal, oil spills. This is definitely NOT a film of 7 years and under, I would possibly recommend it for 10 year olds and up (or to those with a macabre sense of entertainment.)
I re-rented this video upon entering ninth grade and now have a much better appreciation of it. It quite sobberingly portrays many realistic environmental issues and the very negative relation humans have with nature i.e., whaling, toxic waste disposal, oil spills. This is definitely NOT a film of 7 years and under, I would possibly recommend it for 10 year olds and up (or to those with a macabre sense of entertainment.)
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