FREE WILLY! (1993) *Reaction!* FIRST TIME SEEING!! *This one hit me personally 😭😭😭* 

An alternate director's cut ending shown in The Simpsons that upset Homer: "Oh no! Willy didn't make it! And he crushed our boy!"

I love this film and Free Willy 2. I rewatched them numerous times when I was a child in the 90s. I was heartbroken to hear Keiko died in 2003, I remember first reading about it in the newspaper when I lived in Mexico and feeling a wave of coldness envelop my body. For years I had hoped life had imitated art for once, and was overjoyed to learn 3 years after Free Willy this lovely orca had been released into the wild, and yet to see things turn bleak was a reality check I didn't need at 11 years old.

This is my favourite era for these kinds of PG movies. My Girl was another great one that came out in 1991, 2 years before this film.

Yes falling into an orca tank would be terrifying cause they're extremely stressed and very aggressive in captivity. Very different story in the ocean though. They have never attacked a human in the wild. Not once.

Keiko’s dorsal fin was flipped over because of stress and captivity

The Orca in the movie (Keiko) was set free again in real life. ♥️

This is my sister's absolute favorite movie.. I took her to the theater to see it.. One of my favorite memories...

I understand completely how you feel about the movie and Keiko, my heart was heavy watching this with you as I was in Grade 12 when the process to free him started and we also followed his story to the end, so eventhough it was more close to home for you than for me, it was surely an integral part of our young adult lives that left an impact on us 💔😢

I love your passion for Keiko! Unbelievable how shitty humanity can be.

I loved this movie when I was a kid and it first introduced me to Michael Jackson.

It's cool to learn that you are Icelandic. There aren't so many of you, but the amount of talent in your population is amazing. Jeg er selv dansker.

All male Orcas in captivity have a collapsed dorsal finn. It is extremely rare for it to happen in the wild. Only in captivity.

It's a beautiful yet tragic story. It's a beautiful and emotional watch 😢

I’ve met one of the cast from this movie and had him signed my 📼 copy. He was surprised I still had a 📼 player.

I cried when I watched a documentary on Keiko because the whaler had a hand in his capture, was recounting the tale and he said something that stuck with me 😢😢😢😢 he said the whales that died in the nets they'd weigh Down so they'd sink so the authorities wouldn't find them.. 😢😢😢😢 RIP Keiko humans truly failed you 😔.... Many elementary school kids saved many many pennies for you...

A classic of the 'Kid and their X' (animal, robot, alien, etc) genre. The abuse of animals for aquarium and zoos is tragic.

Here's a little trivia about Free Willy. The guy who played Jesse's social worker is the same guy who played Bubba on Forrest Gump.

13:46 "Probably due to horrible conditions..." Sure, they wanted to keep him hungry, so he'd be eager to perform for food rewards.

For whatever reason this movie is especially popular in New Zealand or at least it was when I was young.

I loved this movie, but to this day I cry over orcas being trapped the way they are. Truly breaks my heart

I loved this movie as a kid!

great free willy [1993] film reaction first time seeing !!!

Awww he's helping him through his traumatic situation. ❤

When this first came out, I was too young to understand much of what whales like Keiko were going through. The movie gave the premise that it was wrong, but it wasn't really until the documentary "Blackfish" gave me a glimpse of real life tragedies for both orcas and trainers alike.

Kat when my grandma saw this she adopted a whale in honor of this film.

From what I remember the whales coin curves when they are in captivity or maybe when they are sad

Great reaction! Just 2remarks: 1. There has never been any incident reported where a killerwhale attack a human in the wild, so they don't just kill everything, they are mostly as pods for certain foods. Eg the ones off the cost in Norway are mostly eating fish, the resident orcas in british columbia eat a lot of salmon, and there is a single pod of orcas in Argentina where the members beach themselves to catch seals. They can also kill big whales, even blue whales, but they don't just kill anything and especially not humans. In captivity however it is a different story, there have been multiple killings of trainers by orcas. 2. The dorsal fins of captive orcas are all bent over. It is not 100% sure why, but there might be several reasons combined: - These animals can swim 100 kilometers per day in the wild, and it takes some swimming to keep those fins straight. - In their tanks there is no protection from the sun. Orcas are black, so they absorb a lot of sunlight and in these tanks they get sunburns, which also damages the dorsal fins. Dorsal fins are fairly quickly bent over, even when an orca is stranded you can sometimes see how the dorsal fin is already bent over, that happens fast. - Captive orcas are going through boredom and trauma in the tank, the psychological damage might also be a factor.

It''s maybe too soon to tell you this since it left you so uplifted and I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news if you are not aware but from what we were told in the states, Keiko had been in captivity for so long that after being released he was never able to adapt to the wild, didn't know how to interact with other orcas or find his own food and had to live around and be fed by marine biologists for the remainder of his life. Further evidence of how wrong it is to keep these animals in captivity.

Fun fact keikos original tank,not the one in the movie I think,was fresh water with chlorine...not saltwater

This was one of my favorite movies as a kid ❤

If you think that orca really jumped that high, I can't help you.

Gotta watch Free Willy 2

Another whale movie is Big Miracle. True story of 3 whales caught in Alaskan ice. I was in the 2nd grade when it happened, and every day I’d come home from school asking if any progress was made.

I just discovered your channel and find it commendable having looked at your playlists that you really do review movies that none of the others are reacting to. I saw some of my favorite comedies on those lists. But I also noticed that comedies seem to make up the bulk of what you are reviewing. Do you have an aversion or something to emotionally charged movies, unforgettable movies telling true stories that will stay with you the rest of your life? Because if you don't and are game I can think of many great and extremely powerful movies from the 90s and earlier that none of your competitors seem to be aware of.

Please do Free willy 2?

Every killer whale they keep in capacity has their fin flop over like that.

We Need a Surprise come back... PLZ.. PLZ..

7:20-7:30 I agree😅😅😅

You need to watch Keiko: The Untold Story.

It happens in Captivity with Killer whales. There top fins tips over. It doesn't happen in the wild because they have space to swim. in a tank causes issues.

The woman trainer was in "A League of their own" she just has shorter hair.

You can’t kill an animal in a film? Then don’t ever watch the movie Orca. That movie broke me!

Free willy is a great movie

You should check out Alien and Aliens.

There’s no way people can give an Orca everything they need. They are such social animals and they need their family. They need their specific pod. They have dialects just as complex as humans. You can’t take an orca and put it with just any other orcas. That’s the equivalent of putting a human in a country with a completely different language and culture. I’m not entirely against some modern zoos and aquariums but there are some animals you just can’t properly provide for. An orca is one. There is just no way.

i don't see why the aquarium owner would try to recover the orca after he was stolen...wouldn't insurance pay as much for a stolen animal?

Have you watched the movie air bud

Enough with the pity party we get it you don’t have to talk about the whole damn movie lmao😂 #free willy

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Unfortunately he died after his release from the ocean pen to the open ocean.

Wales eat other fish cobras eat other snakes whales 🐋🐍