Spirit - Stallion of the Cimarron (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: Terrific Family Movie
Review: We just came back from watching the sneak preview of Spirit and can wholeheartedly recommend this movie to any age group. The animation is superb, the score uplifting, and the story moving. Horse lovers of all ages will enjoy this movie, and even those who are not horse lovers will find much to enjoy in this film.

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Summary: SAW IT! LOVED IT!
Review: I saw this movie at a special screening in Washington D.C. two weeks ago and really think it is going to be a big hit. The audience was cheeering and clapping all the way through it. I really liked the horse SPIRIT. He was wild and would not let anyone on his back. People are going to love this movie when it comes out. I want to see it again.

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Summary: A Spirit that could not be broken
Review: This is a story about a beautiful buckskin mustang named spirit. He is captured by men who want to train him, but he has a spirit that could never be broken. Spirit becomes friends with an indian named little creek who helps Spirit return to freedom. spirit also falls in love with a paint mare named Rain. I think this movie will be great and I can't wait to see it! I recommend the Spirit website...and the movie to anyone who loves horses and thinks horses should remain unbroken and wild.

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Summary: Horse becomes mount
Review: A beautiful horse named Spirit can run free. But the calvary thinks it is so beautiful, so they chase it. But when Spirit trys to escape, Spirit gets captured. They give Spirit to an NATIVE AMERICAN. Spirit learns to carry someone on it's back. Spirit becomes a mount & meets a horse named Rain. Spirit would never be broken.

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Summary: Calvary Horse Capture by Brian K.
Review: A beautiful horse named Spirit can run free. But the calvary thinks it is so beautiful, so they chase it. But when Spirit trys to escape, Spirit gets captured. They give Spirit to an indian. Spirit learns to carry someone on it's back. Spirit becomes a mount & meets a horse named Rain. Spirit would never be broken.

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Summary: Beware Horse Experts
Review: I think that Spirit was a great movie. I have only a few warnings. If you are a complete horse expert and can't stand to see one little thing wrong about the movie such as eyebrows on the horse or horses in love, DON'T WATCH IT! I REPEAT, DON'T WATCH IT!!!!! It's a really good movie for families, even though some perfectionists hate it. I thought it was great and you really should get it.

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Summary: Simply Perfect
Review: This is the best animation I've seen.
A perfect example of the animation exists in any scene with water in it.

I kept seeing other movies within this one. Lonesome Dove, Dances With Wolves, Last of the Mohicans.

Simply perfect. This movie really moved me.

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Summary: The Spirit Of The Movie Is This:
Review: We saw this movie in a theater. It was nearly impossible to follow the movie due to so many children crying and horrified parents standing and dragging their children out of the theater. This movie contains scenes with guns, shooting and killing, intense chase scenes, nasty soldiers and a seemingly dead horse that threw the 7 yr old next to us into hysterics. Spirit may look like a cute horsey movie for the little ones, but it is entirely innapropriate for the younger set. If you're old enough that the violence and guns don't bother you, you'll probably find the movie insipid anyways. I have no idea who the producers of Spirit thought would enjoy it... no one we know did.

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Summary: A Horse is a Horse of Course of Course
Review: Matt Damon is a horse. Somehow they elongated his nose, put extensions in his hair for a mane, and dreamworks pulls it off. I suppose animation and computer graphics helps along the way.

I had high apple pie in the sky hopes for this movie. I remember when it came out, it garnered all sorts of good reviews and truly sounded promising as an all-ages family fare offering. I was disappointed though. Since we have a two-year old movies we see these days have to be off the G-rated versions. Of course there are the R-movies to be watched after everyone is in bed but the problem is everyone is in bed including Mom and Dad...so I expect a lot out of my Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks fare these days. Spirit did not deliver.

The movies true strength was the beautiful sweeping animation with Eagles flying horses running and these truly emotive expressive horse faces that told of dialogue in the absence of words. The story-line was overly simplified, devoid of nuances, and oh so PC. It reminded me of "Little Bear," in that regards. The plot I found lacking for the most part but had just enough drama to keep you watching.

Overall I wouldn't say Spirit was a bad movie, but I wouldn't say it was all that stellar either. I think horse-lovers and buffs of all things Wild West will get a kick out of Spirit...I'm still not sure where the Cimarron is. But for family movies that kids and adults will revel in alike, there is better fare out there.
--MMW

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Summary: ' Here i am '
Review: The animation is extremely well done. The backgrounds are amazing and the anatomy of the horses are just as amazing. The animator didn't make the mares scrawny, but she made them pretty muscular but allowed the viewer to tell the difference between the stallinod and gelding and the mares themselves. Although this movie isn't based on a real stroy, spirit is actually alive and was based on a real buckskin kiger mustang for reference on anatomy and such. Even if the horses do not talk in this movie, by facial expressions you can tell exactly what they are speaking .. as well as with their body language. The sounds are amazing too. they included the sounds of when a horse is warning another horse, when a horse is scared, happy, excited ..

This is by far my favorite horse movie ever. Even if my friends make fun of me for liking an animated " kids movie, " .. i still watch it. This animated feature is great for adult and children alike.