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Flipper's New Adventure is bright, blue-green, ebullient, and probably the next best thing to a day at the beach. But, as with most sequels, this second outing of a boy and his dolphin fails to improve on the flippertygibbet fun of the original. When Sandy (Luke Halpin) learns that Flipper is going to be taken away from him, both head for the open sea. Sandy's skiff konks out near an island paradise where he meets the wife and daughters of Sir Halsey Hopewell, held prisoner aboard his yacht by three escaped murderers...
...Flipper (actually a girl dolphin named Susie) who saves the day, easily proving the most indomitable anthropomorphic movie hero since Rin Tin Tin. Flipper sings, squeals, dances, tows a disabled rowboat through a choppy sea, finally defeats the villains in single-snouted combat, and nearly dies of a knife wound before surgery pulls him through. Anyone who finds such exploits hard to swallow is either a lot more than twelve years old or just a jaded landlubber who can't appreciate a picture with a porpoise...
Flipper. When Sandy came home to his little blue house down on the Florida Keys one day, his mother asked him what that look on his face meant. "There's an eight-foot dying dolphin in the fish pen," said Sandy. Sure enough, there in the pen was Flipper, with a scuba diver's spear stuck in him. "Get me a knife and the iodine," said Mom. Before long Flipper was cavorting, grinning, dancing on his tail, laughing a porpoise laugh that sounded something like a very old automobile starting on a very cold day-ugga-ugga-ugga...
...nets, Flipper torpedoes up to the boat with a big smile on his face. Flipper leads them to a whole school of pompano, and Daddy is very happy. Next day Flipper jumps into the fish pen and gobbles up all the pompano, and Daddy is very unhappy. He dislikes dolphins anyway, because they eat a lot of fish and snarl up his nets, so he sets out with a gun to shoot some. "Even Flipper?" Sandy asks tearfully. "Even Flipper," says Daddy. But this aquatic bedtime story has a happy ending, of course. At the fade, Flipper is not only...
Kids who like Lassie will flip for Flipper. Dolphins, indeed, are likely to rate very high on Christmas lists this year. Parents who contemplate trying to keep one in a backyard pool should bear in mind that a dolphin eats about 15 Ibs. of live fish...