It is not easy to create a animated movie in which the animals can display human feelings without losing his animal nature and will be understand by the younger audience at the same time. I have only seen three feature films, in which the idea, to tell a story only through the eyes of animals without "cartoonize" them too much, really works: "Bambi", "Watership Down", and "Spirit - Stallion of the cimarron". This movie is very underrated, it contains all the spirit (oops, good play with words ;-) that once was the realm of Walt Disney. Unfortunately modern Disney lost the ability to tell a good, straight, and heartwarming story in great pictures and symphonic music, like "Spirit - Stallion of the cimarron" do today. Unfortunately modern Disney films needing a lot of action, running gags and sidekicks to cover the weak and soulless plots. Without doubts, the primary model for "Spirit - Stallion of the cimarron" was Disney's old masterpiece "Bambi". As a great fan of "Bambi", i recognize more than a dozen references to Disney's greatest movie of all time: The opening sequence with the forest, Spirits birth, the fight with the cougar, the look to man's camp far away, the burning forest and the jump into the river, the final reunion... and a lot more. That's not wrong, because the makers of "Spirit" use this lovely references in its own context and add a lot more to bring us a great movie that will really touch you. I give him 8 out of 10 stars!
Review of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
