Three cinema films, one reboot nobody saw, and a cartoon that gives away the second film.
In release order, and there is one genuine trap in it. The cartoon came out between the first and second films and it foreshadows things that then happen in the second film. Watching the series after the second film turns those into repeats; watching it in order is how it was meant to go.
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A boy in trouble is put to work at a marine park and befriends the orca the owners are worth more dead than alive.
Twenty one episodes on ABC across two seasons, continuing Jesse and Willy's story and setting up the second film.
An oil spill, and Jesse again. Still in cinemas and still the same cast.
Only if you want it all. A straight-to-video reboot thirteen years later with nobody from the earlier films, set in South Africa.
Then what? Free Willy 3: The Rescue from 1997 sits between those last two and is the weakest of the three cinema films, about whaling rather than a marine park. The real Willy was an orca called Keiko, whose own story after the first film became a long public campaign and is worth reading about separately.
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