![]() ![]() The concept that boys and whales both function best when surrounded by family is easy to digest. And Jesse (Jason James Richter) is also back, this time with a noodgy younger half brother and a dead mom. ![]() Willy, the orca with the cute, man-eating teeth, is back, this time with a brother, a sister, and a mom. The lessons learned from this smoothly constructed sequel to the 1993 wildlife-as-playmates story about a boy, his harmonica, and his best friend of a killer whale: (1) families and Native Americans with a very special relationship to Mother Nature are good (2) hard-hearted oil tanker captains and greedy young capitalists who talk on cellular telephones are bad and (3) a wispy Michael Jackson song about his lost childhood inserted into the middle of a whale movie is very, very bad.
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