O man! I know this film indeed been around forever, but I'm still totally fascinated by him. He is simply terrific and Willy is a madness! It can be seen through this film clearly the problems of a 12-year-old orphan who is looking fit. Jesse comes clear with anyone and Willy is clear to anybody - which is probably the reason that the two become friends so much. Sounds actually impossible; a friendship between a boy and an animal that counts as a real "friendship", like those of two people. But I do not want to be corny. "Free Willy" is just great and encourages the communal life. This whale is a so sympathetic that you mitfiebert properly when it comes to his freedom and survival. ;) What I find not so good, is that the film was continued with two parts. I do not know the other two, but also by design. I'm also one hundred percent sure that neither of the two other parts even remotely rankommt the first and only true part. In my opinion, one should not destroy by retold the story that actually has a fairly clear, sad and Lightening end the impression of the original. The film is at the end a little theatrical, but that's not so tragic. I love this movie for years and still I can say is - who does not know him should march quickly into the next video store!