"This baby, a cross between Flipper and The Bourne Identity, packed the heat. Using technology borrowed from George Lucas' ILM, an intrepid America crew slips into Japan and nails the bad guys for doing terrible things to dolphins." Rolling Stone
"Louie Psihoyos’s documentary about dolphin-trainer turned activist Ric O’Barry is agitprop sexed up as a breakneck action film, dramatizing his struggle to stop the slaughter of dolphins in a small town in Japan. The film is passionate, exciting, and frightening, with nary a beat of a bleeding heart. It also features the most riveting and heartbreaking finale of the festival." New York Magazine
"The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos and produced by the Oceanic Preservation Society, chronicles former dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry's heroic campaign to stop the killing of 2,000 dolphins every year in the Japanese coastal village of Taiji. In the 1960s, O'Barry trained the animals that collectively became known as Flipper to TV viewers - an experience that he has spent decades trying to undo because of the role the television show played in creating the captive dolphin industry in the United States and around the world. He came to believe that dolphins should never be captive, and he has tirelessly campaigned to end the inhumane treatment of these undeniably intelligent, self-aware creatures. The Cove is a riveting tale, told with skill, substance, and relentless drama." Joel Reynolds, Director of the Marine Mammal Protection and So. Santa Monica, CA.
"Last night a few friends gathered to watch The Cove, the audience award-winning film from Sundance everyone is buzzing about. Not since An Inconvenient Truth has a room been silenced into such abject shock coupled with an intense desire to act. The Cove accomplishes exactly what great documentaries are supposed to -- it moves you, engages you, thrills you, enrages you." Huffington Post
"Without question my choice for the best documentary of 2009 so far." Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere
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