i was given this movie as a child and it gave me nightmares. i would not recommend this movie to anyone with small children, unless you are are looking for something disturbing to watch or hate whales. the music is horrifying, and the voice-overs are not pleasant. it's a strained movie, containing themes far too heavy to be wrapped in the guise of a children's movie - murder, depression, paranoia, revenge. deranged sailors harpoon writhing whales, filling the water with blood; one whale mentally snaps and becomes coated in spilled oil and suffocates; a young whale noses a dead one while it stares at him with empty, lifeless eyes. perhaps this film would have been better suited to a more artsy genre, a la city of lost children or something else equal parts fantasy and disturbing imagery, instead of trying to gear it toward a young audience with a simply put script and a colorful, cartoony presentation.
Review of Samson & Sally
