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Summary: Great Movie!!! Wonderful Animation! Poor Sound Track...
Review: I really enjoyed Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron! The animation was pretty, the plot engrossing and the emotions of humans and their horse companions well portrayed.Spirit is a young buckskin stallion, the leader of his herd. Raised by his mother, a single-mom palomino, Spirit has never before met a human until he spies a distant campfire. Overcome with curiosity he investigates, only to find a group of soldiers and unhappy horses in bridles and saddles. Overcome with mischief, Spirit taunts the men, with disastrous consequences: The men follow him back to his own herd and threaten his mother and friends! Spirit leads the men away from his herd, only to be captured and taken to the human fort. I found this movie to be moving, the graphics pretty, and the tale a young horse 'remaining steadfast and holding true to his belief in freedom, despite imprisonment, ill treatment' quite engrossing. The only thing I DIDN'T like about Spirit was the sound track. Bleh. Bryan Adam's nasally whining was awfully and did not suit the tone of the movie at all. (A folk musician, or a Native American artist would've suited this film more). I give this movie 5 stars for the gorgeous animation!
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Summary: Not for small children! PG-13...
Review: I rented this movie based on the excellent reviews and the fact that other people stated that they had taken small children to watch it. After I got it home, I previewed the movie prior to letting the kids watch it. Very good idea! This movie should be rated PG (Parental Guidance). It may be animated but otherwise I would not consider it to be a 'childs' movie. I thought several scenes in the movie could have been left out without effecting the overall outcome of the movie. There were several scenes in the movie which depicted brutality to the horse and an outright uncaring attitude toward the horse. While the review standards listed for this website states that I can not list the actual scene here, I believe that each person should evaluate this film prior to letting their children see the movie. As an adult I found at least 3 of the scenes in the movie very disturbing and I feel sure that I will think about them for days. I had intended to buy the movie as part of our library, but I do not enjoy watching movies that at the end of the movie leave me feeling as though I have been through a thrashing machine. I cried all the way through the movie at the overall cruelty given to this animal. I think it would have been a better story to have enhanced the story of the Indian boy and his love for the wild horses. But do small children need to see this type of cruelty/torture? Don't they find out soon enough how bad the people out there are and how much cruelty animals have to suffer without introducing movies like this to them at such an early age? Older children would have a better concept of the chain of events depicted in this movie. I personally would not show this to pre-school age children and most other childern under 9 or 10. I really didn't see much in the movie that would enhance early childhood development. I think small children are innocent and should remain such as long as we can keep them that way. The realities of life comes along soon enough without us pushing them into it by taking small children to movies that have concepts they are to young to understand. This is just my opinion...
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Summary: Excellent for the entire family
Review: This movie was wonderful. My family has watched it over and over again. Childrens ages: Boys 16 and 14, and a daughter 6.
There were some intense scenes, but they were well done and
added a great deal to the overall experience. The ending was gratifying and emotional. Too often when native americans and "The Cavalry" are depicted, one or the other are the bad guys, this movie showed some heart. The music was powerful and moving...I'm going to see if I can find the soundtrack! The person who really loved this movie the best in our family was my 6 year old daughter. She loves horses and Spirit is her favorite, followed by Rain....only one problem...she wants a real one now!
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Summary: THE SPIRIT THAT COULD NOT BE BROKEN
Review: THE SPIRIT THAT COULD NOT BE BROKEN
This is the only movie I have ever cried to.
This is the only movie I have to own.
This is the best movie I have ever seen!
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Summary: Emotional Spirit
Review: While I do think this movie was "out of this world" wonderful, I want all parents to watch it with their children, especially their younger ones. While it is not violent, it is a VERY emotional movie, with the surges in action hardly giving the kids a chance to dry their eyes. My three year old is not prone to crying during movies and could hardly breathe through the sobs. (Even the tears of joy at the end) I do highly recommed this movie for it's strong messages of love and loyalty and the importance of kindness, yet I think it must be clear to the little ones that it is okay to cry and to talk, while watching, about what is happening. Even though it is a cartoon, it is VERY real to them.
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Summary: One of the Best Movies I've Ever Seen
Review: I am a horse lover and seeing this movie is like I've been waiting for something and now that i've seen Spirit, I'm not searching anymore. Has just about everything: adventure, humor, love and everything. i just got it and I would recommend it to anyone. And Bryan Adams did a perfect job for the songs in the movie. I especially liked "Get Off Of My Back". Spirit is a movie people of all ages should see. My mom was crying (nothing new) at some parts, because they were sad or just so wonderful Mom just had to cry. Not all things are entirely accurate about wild horses in the movie, but I won't get into those. Spirit can really make you feel happy. I like how the horses didn't talk. That probably would've messed it up, because although it is a fiction movie, it's made to be partly true and horses don't talk. Dream Works did an excellent job, and I look forward to a Spirit 2. There must be one, because I heard Spirit and Rain had a baby. AWESOME movie. Even as a 12 year old, though I'm not much into movies like Disney and cartoons and stuff anymore, Spirit was a rare exception.
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Summary: Spirit Rules!
Review: Spirit is one movie only matched by Disney's the Lion King! I personally loved it. I love horses, too. It was so sweet I cried many times. Very emotional. I would recommend this to anyone!
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Summary: A breath of fresh air!
Review: This movie is so refreshingly different I hardly know where to begin. I applaud the decision not to have the horses talk. And Oh they didn't sing either! Thank goodness! There were no goofy sidekicks, no bawdy humor, no 'bad-guy-falls-to-his-death' and no mothers dying in the first third of the film. Our family was joking about what a certain big studio would have done with it if they were behind it. The main antagonist is just that. He's not particularly bad, he just has his methods (I didn't like them and you probably won't either). I love the contest of wills between the two. Especially when you think Spirit has been broken -Right in the middle of the Colonel's speech you find out he isn't! The blacksmith sequence is a scream and you find yourself cheering for Spirit. Anyone who is around Spirit very much ends up respecting and accepting him as a horse who will not be broken. The one part of the film that rather bothered me was a railroad camp part. I wondered if the filmmakers were anti-railroad or anti-progress. Our nation was literally built by the steam engine. In the director's commentary they explain they weren't trying to make a negative statement about railroads they were showing how it would appear from Spirit's perspective. Much as I like trains I would not want them laying rails in my backyard! I love the cameos some of our national treasures (National parks)put in. This film is a feel good rendition of the old romantic image many of us have of the old west. It's like a beautiful animated painting that I will enjoy seeing again and again. Definitely clean enough for the most discriminating parent to show his/her children.
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Summary: This Horse ROCKS!
Review: When I saw this movie, I felt the freedom that these horses had in their time. We humans have ruined this world with our polution, and expansion. This movie shows us to take care of our wildlifs and our heritge should it be lost forever. I give this movie a 5 out of 5fr showing us our true path in life...
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Summary: Sweet Story
Review: The story itself is wonderful. The climax of the story is pretty intense and my daughter got scared and wanted to turn it off. I suggest a parent definitely watches this movie with a child.
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