This movie is by far the absolute worst movie I have ever seen. the voice of the characters frightened my young cousins and made them cry.I strongly recommend to every age group to never ever watch this movie!If I was stranded on a deserted island with only this movie and a terrarium full of scorpions and I was forced to eat the scorpions or watch this movie I'd eat the scorpions without hesitation! I hope you receive this message and take my word for it.sincerely,a terrified viewer Do N O T watch it.

I sat through this whole pile of drivel in utter bewilderment. I have seen an awful lot of films, therefore I have seen a huge amount of bad, very bad and utterly terrible pieces of cinema. But The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer is the world heavy weight champion of bad films. The narration and dialogue is almost painful to listen to, the story is a feeble attempt at a coming of age drama and the animation will make you want to close your eyes. I have friends who get together periodically to watch cheap, cheesy and deficient movies, I told them to try this one and even they were flabbergasted. If you haven't seen it find a copy, sit back and take it all in. See how long you can last. I only sat through it because my 2 and 4 year old were watching it, and they would watch a brick wall for 90 minutes if it was a cartoon brick wall.

I like the film "The Dolphin Story of a Dreamer," because it has a message about following your dreams and listening to your heart, even when others tell you your dreams don't matter.The film is about a young dolphin named Daniel Alexander Dolphin, who has a dream to surf the biggest wave. He lives with a pod of dolphins and he is not suppose to wander outside of the lagoon. The other dolphins in his pod have given up on following their dreams, and are happy to live in comfort in the lagoon, but Daniel wants more. When a kind stingray enters the lagoon and tells Daniel to never give up and keep following his heart he decides to leave the lagoon to find his dream.My favorite part of the film is when Daniel surfs the giant wave and shoots through the tube. I love when he is inside the wave. It is magical.My favorite character is the little tiny dolphin, named Sparky, who gets so excited about everything and acts like he is on a sugar rush and then falls over exhausted and goes to sleep.The background in the lagoon is beautiful. The animation has lots of detail. The small brightly colored plants swaying in the water and sunlight are very realistic but magical too. Some of the animation I don't like. For example the dolphin's teeth are too sharp and that makes them a little scary and sometimes the mouth movement doesn't go along with the voices.I recommend this film to older kids or as a family movie because the messages might be hard for young kids to understand and might be boring. I feel some of the messages get over-played and sometimes I lose interest. Younger kids might think the shark is scary, but compared to Nemo, it's not too scary.Credit: Makai Weber Colvin, Age 9, KIDS FIRST! Film Critic

As another reviewer said, if I could give this movie a negative score I would - I only wish I had read the reviews here before renting this movie for my 5-year-old. I actually signed up here at IMDb just so I could warn anyone else who may possibly be considering showing this movie to your children: DON'T! We have Friday night movie night at our house, and my son chose this from RedBox; looked innocuous enough and suitable for a young child... boy, was I wrong!! Horrible (read: creepy) animation; trite, senseless drivel masquerading as a "storyline"; terrible music; and - worst of all - the most hideous, nightmare-inducing "bad guy" character (the sunfish? more like a maniacally vicious, monstrous barracuda!) ever imagined for a so-called children's movie. What the H--l could the people making this movie have POSSIBLY been thinking??? We foolishly soldiered on to the end of this miserable mash-up, as I was hoping a positive ending might wash away the bitter bile watching it induced, but alas - I was wrong again. Could find absolutely nothing positive to redeem this vapid waste of time, technology & resources. I thought I believed in freedom of artistic expression, but all copies of this movie should be permanently destroyed so no other psyches will be harmed by viewing it.