55/100

"I'm never going to ride you, am I? And no one ever should."

If I'm being honest, a film that is held back is one of the worst feelings ever. A film that has so much potential but does something different is so frustrating that I wish I could tell the studio what to do because when it comes to DreamWorks' Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, I feel like the film could've been a masterpiece but instead turned into an uneventful film.

The lead "character" Spirit, voiced by Matt Damon, is a compelling character and yet isn't. The film chooses to have a voice-over and to me that ruins the film as whole. Matt Damon gives such simple lines…

"There was no end to the strange ways on the two-leggeds."

One of the most underrated animated movies ever made, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron is a beautiful movie.

There's not a thing about this movie I dislike. The animation on the movie is drop dead gorgeous. There are points where it actually looks like a painting you would see in a museum. The songs by Bryan Adams are also very good.

My favorite part of the film however is a bold decision in the horses. They never speak throughout the movie. Sure Matt Damon narrates the film through the point of view of the main character but the horses never speak a word. This seperates the movie from most…

REWATCH: I look at Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2001) and all I see is a shell of film that had a lot of potential. The original film looked like it could’ve been actually great, you still see it in the animation (horses are damn hard to draw, let alone animate….) What makes the film interesting is two things: 1) that none of the horse characters speak and 2) The Matt Damon narration and Bryan Adams songs feel forced, half assed, and last minute. What this says to me, is that at one point, there was a version of this film that had neither Matt Damon nor Bryan Adams. (Well, maybe Adams was there from the start…) Studio executives saw…