The adventure of a rambunctious mustang stallion as he journeys through the untamed American frontier where he befriends a young human and finds true love with a mare.
There are genuine moments of beauty in Spirit -- visually and emotionally speaking -- but ultimately they aren't worth the price of suffering through the extraneous material that too often sullies the picture.
Common Sense Media
December 28, 2010
Many kids will like this mustang tale.
Denver Post
December 26, 2007
Spirit is smarter than your average cartoon because it doesn't try to joke around with a host of annoying talking animals.
Rather exciting, rendered in a bright sunset palette and a mixture of expressive, boldly drawn traditional animation and fluid computer-generated imagery.
Spirit: Stallion Of the Cimmaron, which and is technically Dreamworks' first animated film since the monster CGI hit Shrek, as a hand-drawn film has quite a bit to live up to, but succeeds admirably at finding the heart that is often missing from technica
