I have nothing but admiration for people who want to spare the lives of our fellow inhabitants on spaceship Earth, but I wish they would appear in full-witted movies. Turtle Diary, for example, was a wonderful and complex movie about two people who conspired to steal some giant turtles from the zoo and return them to the ocean. When the Whales Came is a simpleminded movie by filmmakers who have conspired to make a predictable and morose parable and bang us over the head with it until it is dead.
