Slappy and the Stinkers is a 1998 American adventure comedy film directed by Barnet Kellman, and written by Robert Wolterstorff and Mike Scott.

Starring B. D. Wong and Bronson Pinchot, the plot concerns a group of children who try to save an abused sea lion from a greedy circus owner.

Five feisty kids (leader Sonny, contraption making Loaf, movie loving Domino, sympathetic albeit tough Lucy, and the reluctant participating Witz), nicknamed the "Stinkers" by Mr. Brinway, are secretly skipping class to create chaos on the school grounds.

When the kids discover sea lion Slappy during an aquarium field trip, Sonny and the others decide to free him by smuggling him back onto the school bus and hide him in Mr. Brinway's hot tub; as a form of celebrating their success, they have a party.

The group locates Boccoli's hideout and disposes of him by squirting him with water, blowing sawdust onto his body and shooting him with Roy's gopher bomb gun.

[4] Roger Ebert's review gave the film 2 stars and commented: "Slappy and the Stinkers filled me with shreds of hope: Was it possible that this movie, about five kids who kidnap a sea lion, would not be without wit?

"[5] Variety found that "Filled to the gills with slapstick humor, the improbably titled “Slappy and the Stinkers” could well have been sold as “The Little Rascals” meets “Free Willy.”'[6] In a review for The New York Times, Lawrence van Gelder stated, "On a dark winter's day, other 7-year-olds whose film memory bank remains similarly and understandably undernourished may find "Slappy and the Stinkers" a welcome alternative to an afternoon of snow-filled galoshes.

"[7] while TV Guide's retrospective review was more negative: "Kids still young enough to be hooked on Saturday morning cartoons may enjoy this self-consciously cliché-ridden kiddie flick, but it will be torture for their adult chaperones.