Review: Spirit Untamed not worth the horse it rode in on
Animated horse tale suspiciously lacking in spirit, human or otherwise.
Adam Graham
Be strong, be brave, let courage lead the way.
Nice message, poor delivery system. Spirit Untamed is as generic as children s entertainment gets, a shoddily animated, base-level story about the bond between horses and humans and the importance in believing in oneself. Those who are 5 and younger may appreciate the pretty horsies, no one else need apply.
Isabela Merced voices Fortuna Esperanza Lucky Prescott, a young girl who is sent from her home out East to live with her father (voiced by Jake Gyllenhaal) in the American southwest. Lucky is a free spirit and is drawn to horses, and as such is expressly banned from playing with or associating with horses. (Because that always works.) So of course she winds up on an adventure with a wild mustang, Spirit, doing some death-defying riding that would never be attempted in any non-comp
The summer movie season is here! The latest film from DreamWorks Animation,
Spirit Untamed, gallops into theaters this Friday, June 4. It was directed by Elaine Bogan and co-directed by Ennio Torresan Jr. (in their feature film directorial debuts!) and features Isabela Merced, Jake Gyllenhaal, Julianne Moore, Marsai Martin, Mckenna Grace, Walton Goggins, Eiza González, and Andre Braugher. The feature is based on the Netflix series
Spirit Riding Free and is a spin-off of the animated flick
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
In this adventure movie, Lucky Prescott s life is changed forever when she moves from the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
DreamWorks Animation
In Theaters: 06.04
The summer movie season is never complete without animated family films. Since Disney-Pixar’s big release will be exclusive to streaming, DreamWorks’
Spirit Untamed is one of biggest theatrical animated movies coming from a major studio.
Spirit Untamed is a spinoff rather than a direct sequel to the 2002 feature
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and is actually a reimagining of the Netflix series
Spirit: Riding Free. Lucky Prescott (voiced by
Isabela Merced,
Dora and the Lost City of Gold) is the daughter of the late Milagro Navarro, a fearless horse-riding stunt performer whose life was cut short by a tragic accident during a performance. Lucky has grown up in an East Coast city under the watchful eye of her Aunt Cora (Academy Award winner