Slappy and the Stinkers (1998)

Director: Barnet Kellman
Cast: BD Wong, Bronson Pinchot, Carl Michael Lindner, Gary LeRoi Gray, Jennifer Coolidge, Joseph Ashton, Scarlett Pomers, Travis Tedford

Synopsis:

Five 2nd-grade kids who don’t follow strict rules by their school principal Brinway are dubbed “Stinkers” by him. On the class visit to an aquarium the Stinkers decide that a sea lion called Slappy doesn’t feel too good there, “free” him, and plant him into Brinway’s hot-tub.