Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)

Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997): Dir: Sam Pillsbury / Cast: Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Annie Corley, Patrick Kilpatrick, Vincent Berry: Pointless sequel where a whale is rescued for its third bloody time. This time Jason James Richter and August Schellenberg must rescue Willy from poachers who probably wish to eat the whale so to save viewers from a possible Free Willy 4. Director Sam Pillsbury does his best but even the photography looks bland. The screenplay is about as exciting as picking food from your teeth. Hearing a third grade kid read a book report on the whale would be more interesting than anything that happens in this sleep fest. Richter should be given some sort of an award for all the whales he has seen under the influence of bad sequels. Schellenberg also returns because he obviously pitied Richter and decided to share the blame. Also with Annie Corley and Patrick Kilpatrick who must deal with having this junk on their resumes. The animal rights message doesn't really matter here. This is just feeding off another franchise that never really had a fresh angle to begin with. We all understand the need to preserve wildlife but this feels more like an opportunity to milk a dying franchise to death. Even the whale looks like it ought to be moving on to better things, like the stage version of Orca. Perhaps the filmmakers should free Willy and come up with a new idea. Score: 1 / 10

The first wildlife family film is alright fun, the sequel wasn't as likable (once in a while), so I had to finish the trilogy, and see which of all of them is most bearable. Basically, (Jesse Jason James) Richter is now sixteen years old, and has taken a job on a ship as both researcher and protector of Orca whales. He is working with old friend Randolph Johnson (August Schellenberg), sarcastic scientist Drew Halbert (Annie Corley), and on the ocean he is of course reunited with old friend Willy the Whale (Keiko). Meanwhile, on a whaling ship is John Wesley (Patrick Kilpatrick) and his young son Max (Vincent Berry), who after seeing many of them isn't very keen on killing the Orca whales. While he doesn't have the guts to say no to his Dad, Jesse gets Max to meet Willy and his new girlfriend who is pregnant with their baby, and he realises that his Dad is doing something illegal and nasty to nature. Also starring Tasha Simms as Mary Wesley, Peter LaCroix as 1st Mate Sanderson, Stephen E. Miller as Dineen, Ian Tracey as Kron and Matthew Walker as Captain Drake. The problem with this one is that the human story takes over and we hardly see enough of the beautiful, originally show stealing creatures, the birth of a baby nearly makes up for the lack of time they are used, but the first film is always going to be the one to watch. Okay!

Well, here we go again. The blonde dude is getting older and so it Willy time for one more adventure I think. This film wouldn't be so down rated it it maybe had been the second instalment. By now we have seen enough of the same stuff. In Willy 1 it was kind of boring and in 2 it was a little better but nothing too exciting, apart front he exploding boat of oil. So I would suggest watching number 1 (If you like wales) and number 2 (If you really love wales). But if you don't pass on by the whole lot of them. This is the final instalment, if your desperate for Willy watch, if not... Watch Spykids. Not saying thats any better either.

free willy 3: the rescue is a good movie, i first watched this when the movie came out in 1997, Jesse is back, now older (16 years old) Old enough to drive and is now working for Randolph. Jesse meets willy yet again and is shocked to find out that he now has a girlfriend called Nicki, Jesse also is shocked to know that Willy is to become a father. A young boy named Max is going fish hunted with his dad, he meets Jesse and Jesse tells him that Willy is no harm to anyone, Max tells his father at the end not to kill willy as he is to a friend to the while, Max's father doesn't listen to Max and then admits that willy is just a friendly whale. I give this movie 10 out of 10. I hope there will be a Free Willy 4.