I’m Reviewing DreamWorks’ Horse Movie (from 2021) | Spirit Untamed Review 

I guess one good thing you can say about this movie is that it’s actually dedicated to Kelly Asbury, one of the directors of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron, who sadly passed away in 2020. Rest in peace to One of the True creators of my childhood. (eat your hart out, Butch Fartman).

Truth is I really love Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. It kinda makes me a bit angry seeing that DreamWorks tarnished such a great movie.

DreamWorks really needs their Spider-Man into the spider-verse since they might become the next illumination according to some people.

Spirit had a great movie back in the 2000s it really didn't need a tv series or a reboot

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is such an underrated movie.

I adore the 2002 original. I would ask why we needed a movie based on the show, let alone another Spirit movie 19 years later, but I already know what the answer is.

As a horse myself, i love Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. It's mah lil sis's favorite movie

I sure didn’t have high expectations for this movie. I’d still rather have a spin-off series to ‘The Road to El Dorado’ or ‘Rise of the Guardians’, which both actually DO lend themselves to more adventures with their respective characters (and in the case of the former, was intended to have its own series before it flopped at the box office).

The 2002 Spirit movie was what got me into horses. It's also 1 of mine & my older sister's childhood favorites.

Just why did they take the underrated masterpiece that is the original Spirit movie and make a crappy, poorly animated Netflix show that's nothing like the movie, where Spirit (or rather, his son) is domesticated by a knockoff Polly Pocket and her gang of flawless Mary Sues who never learn anything or develop as characters, and then they milked this crappy new franchise to death with more seasons, specials, toys and now this new movie which is a REBOOT of the Netflix show and Lucky is a prodigy at Karate now? WHYYYY?!?!?

Just think, in 10 or 20 years when people will ask about Spirit, they will probably mention this film instead of the original. I'd definitely recommend the original.

The animation hurts my eyes. It kinda hurts to see my childhood favourite being butchered. (Riding Free was trash in my opinion)

I loved the 2002 "Spirit" movie, but I never saw the Netflix show so I've got nothing on it, or this movie. From what I've heard, this show seems more like it was meant to be an original series, but they later added Spirit to make it more marketable. That'd be like if someone made a down-to-earth show about kids doing normal science experiments, only to throw in Dexter from "Dexter's Lab" or Jimmy Neutron just to grab more attention from their existing fans.

I strongly recommend the 1990s Australian cartoon series "The Silver Brumby", also about wild horses. The entire series is on RU-vid.

This looks nothing like the original Spirit which was EPIC!

This video alone has made me wonder when you’re going to do a classic review of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron. I remember when I first saw that movie in theaters when I was a kid, and I absolutely loved it. It’s tragically underrated.

Like how AniMat described "Legends of Oz", I found this, along with the Netflix series, the embodiment of what the 2002 hand-drawn animated "Spirit" isn't. The story lacked ambition, the animation lacked beauty, and the characters lacked spirit (no pun intended) I give the movie a 4.5 out of 10 for being "eh".

We're still glad Road To El Dorado and Sinbad didn't get this kind of treatment with a sequel who no one else wanted (Except the hardcocre fans) otherwise we're gonna enjoy tearing these guys apart for destroying our childhood!

I thought he was going to give this the Animat’s Seal of Garbage. But, I guess the animation was what caused him to go neigh on it.

She's not even an Native American girl. If that's not a robbery I don't know what is.

Yeah I'm glad I skipped this one. I love Spirit but man this is not the Spirit I remember DreamWorks!

These little girls should start a circus, they're way too gifted in this horsing thing.

9:18 “HELLO, I AM HORSE AND I AM UNTAMED!!!!” - AniMat 2021

Honestly, I didn’t know what to think of this movie. On one hand, it doesn’t look like something I would want to get up and go to the movies to see because I haven’t seen any episodes. On the other, I heard the director was Elaine Bogan, who did some of the best episodes of Trollhunters and 3Below. So, it would have been better to make this a Netflix movie instead of an official Dreamworks movie.

I think that this would be a lot better if it was just another horse instead of Spirit

I loved the original so much as a kid, especially the music

I guess this film is one of dreamworks weaker films so I will be watching this on VOD when it comes out

With films like this that are probably most popular with audiences ages 5-10 I'd be curious to hear what their perspective experiences are once they grow up and start channels of their own. Currently, kids can't join the conversation on platforms like RU-vid unless they set up accounts with fake ages. This guarantees most of the comments section including myself fall well outside the target audience for such a film. That said, I think this is a decent review and AniMat is on point here.

Of course, it’s always the mom that’s a victim of typical family dramas in animated films and shows. Why can’t we just have a different relative die like a grandparent, an aunt or an uncle? What is it with the mom specifically that most writers always pick to get the ax?

Oh my God, as we all know, a tiny little girl can beat up grown men. At least Kick-Ass tried to make that somewhat believable, but this isn’t even a comic book movie. Christ.

I guess Spirit COULD be broken, defeating the point of that ending of the first film. Then again, we're not in the Old West, and this isn't exactly the same Spirit in-universe, so...

I went to go see this movie today and I'm gonna say that I love spirit: stallion of the cimarron better 🐎

Well this sure is one nice review on this very interesting movie. Also hope y'all have a great day.

I was hoping to see this get the animat seal of garbage

My question... what did you think of the soundtrack? Smart people: There was a soundtrack??? The songs were the first thing I forgot about. Someday I'd like to do an in-depth character analysis but I think your review got it pretty spot on. It's a cute movie, but maybe watch it if you have the right motivation. (Aka how much are you WILLING to pay to see it?)

Even though I have seen the original spirit and it is an awesome film, but I haven’t seen the Netflix series too, so unI wasn’t really interested in untamed considering the film had little marketing as well. I bet it’s gonna be better than the Boss Baby 2 though I can tell you that!!

#NotMySpirit

I've never understood why decades old things get rebooted but completely change genre or become a spin off like with Teen Titans, Thunder Cats and This, just go ahead and make something original then if it's going to be so different. My only guess to why this is done is that they hope parents will recognize the I.P. and remember liking it and then put it on for their kids.

I was expecting a seal of garbage to this movie, I saw the movie and I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't even recommend the movie. Stallion of the Cimarron is much better.

Some how I knew this movie would be meh

Great review man and I really do agree with you about the film and as for me I'm just going to stick to the original animated Spirit movie with Matt Damon in it.

I don’t know why though, but I like the title of this review for some apparent reason i don’t know why though

I LOVED the original movie. It’s such as a classic that didn’t need to be touched. Once I saw the Spirit Riding Free trailer I was so upset. But I gave the show a chance and fell in love. The show got better as time went on. But after the series came to an end, they dropped the movie trailer. 😔 They replaced the original cast of spirit riding free with “celebrities”. Plus the complete design change from the series was painful too. Now everyone looks like bobble heads. Plus I saw Lucky (the mc) did some karate kick to some dude. What?!? This movie breaks the laws of the original movie and the tv show. Plus it’s just a recap of the first few episodes. As a fan of both the OG Spirit movie and the show, I do not claim this movie to be apart of the Spirit universe. I do recommend you giving Spirit Riding Free a chance, but it seems to be aimed more at teens/preteens so idk if it will keep your attention.

I'm not looking forward to see Spirit Untamed in theaters nor streaming service. I hated the fact that they ruined Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron and sugar coated it as your typical girl bonding horse type tv show that we all ready seen many times before and they really sugar coated and dumb down Spirit like the recent Ice Age sequels. Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron was such a beautiful hand drawn animated film and underrated animated film and this is one of those rare animated films that doesn't need a franchise and should be a stand alone animated film much like Ice Age, Surf's Up, Cars, Chicken Run, The Little Mermaid and many more I can count. That movie touched my heart and my passion of horses and animation and overcome my autism and proven my freedom from discrimination and this movie connected to me. This movie is one of those rare animated films that does a great job dealing of show don't tell and doesn't need dialogue as storytelling much like Wall-E, Shaun the Sheep Movie and other independent animated films. This one should be called Horse Shit the Movie as a perfect title. The story is predictable as your typical city kid moving to countryside and bonding with this wild animal type story and plus this movies feels like a ripoff of the 2002 animated film, E.T., and How to Train Your Dragon, the animation is massive downgrade, cheap and lazy compared to the beautiful 2002 hand drawn animated film and downgrade like a cheap animated PS2 video game, the characters are annoying and unlikable and unrelatable to me especially the girls they are so annoying and obnoxious for acting and being stereotypical cutesy bad and they come off annoying and obnoxious than actual cute and they really dumb this show by explaining everything what's going on that they can't do everything themselves especially a preachy message of 'Protect and save animals" and my God they are as bland and annoying like the kid characters from the Dumbo remake, I never cared or connected to Lucky, she is the most annoying unlikable female character that I have seen and plus I never feel for her and never feel sorry for her that her mother passed away and I mean come on it's the cliche mother death done many times before in animation, this franchise focused too much on the humans less focused on Spirit who is supposed to be the main character of the series but nope give too much screentime on the humans characters much like what happened to Dumbo in Dumbo remake and Tom and Jerry in many Tom and Jerry movies and even the Transformers in Michael Bay Transformers movies where instead of focusing them as the main characters they focused too much on bland, generic, annoying human characters, heck I find garbage shredded pieces of paper have more charm than them! The tone on both the series and this new movie feels way too juvenile, sugar coated, light hearted compared to the 2002 animated film and they got to desperately explain everything what's going on with the voices and it feels like they mostly talking dumb down to it's audience, the voice acting feels bland and wooden, the action scenes look so dull and forgettable and I never feel like the characters in major peril and plays itself way too safe for kids, the songs are cringing to listen to and worse of all this film along with this TV show feels kinda outdated because it takes place on a farm and ranch that doesn't address animal abuse/cruelty on how horses, cows, pigs, chickens and foxes are mistreated and beaten by humans for food, milk and fur, how farmers kill predator animals to protect livestock and how farm animals can spread dieases and Covid-19 started on industrial farms and this TV show focuses too much on the merchandise and girls they never address animal cruelty in here? They don't care about addressing animal abuse/cruelty here. Oh you are so focused and care about merchandise for the toys and the series and yet you are not going to talk about the real serious subject matter of animal abuse/cruelty. Some could argue that it because this takes place before this issue was taken seriously but concerning the fact that the time period doesn't make sense and this show doesn't care about continuity and released in the late 2010 there is no denied that this show should've known better! It sends the wrong message to kids especially towards girls when really farms and ranches are horrible places for animals to lived in awful, cruelty conditions. At least movies like Animal Farm, Charlotte's Web, Babe, Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron and Ferdinand do a decent job to educate and show kids and families how animals are feeling mistreated, beaten and abused by humans and why we should stop animal abuse/cruelty in farms and ranches. If you really wanted to see an animated movie about human girls befriending a horse, I'd watch the Equestria Girls movies, or you know the 80's My Little Pony movie. I’d rather watch me some Equestria Girls instead. Sure it had talking ponies and colored teenagers who got themselves some magic and an enchanted TALKING DOG who’s actually a dragon, but at least those movies were aware of the demographic they were aiming towards. With Spirit Untamed however, nah nah nah. Spirit was a very special movie wanting to be a true work of art, a Renaissance piece of the Wild West. It’s not about the money it made, it’s about being a true living painting with a unforgettable journey home. The true original 2002 Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron was made by true beauty and art 🎨 while this movie on the other hand was only made to make a soulless lazy cheap cash grab! 💸 So yeah, not looking forward to see Spirit Untamed. One of my least anticipated animated movies of 2021. I still don't understand why this movie got to be released in theaters instead of streaming service but it looks and feels more like a streaming service movie to me. Luca and Vivo deserved to have theatrical releases and feel more theatrical animated movies than this piece of shit. I'm going to give this film the Alexis Seal of Garbage! 🗑 💩 😠😡🤬👿

Man DreamWorks really needs to step up their game and make more movies like Kung fu panda or how to train your dragon and not movies like this and the boss baby 2, the netflix show isn't that bad, if you think that it's a different horse and not the same horse as in the 2002 film version. I don't get why they changed the animation or did the same thing they already did in the show, I wish they could of come up with a different story and have stayed true to the animation style in the show but upgrade it

I can't tell if this Riding Free series and film are supposed to be a sequel to the original 2002 movie or a reboot. Either way, it cannot live up to the artistic genius of the original movie. People, just stick with Stallion of the Cimmarron from 2002, and show it to your kids, both to girls and to boys.

Am i the only one that has noticed with cartoons, animated movies and other stuff made for kids that they still make plenty of kids stuff aimed at girls but they never really make anything aimed at boys anymore? And stuff that is supposed to be for both boys and girls seems to be way more made for girls than boys. Kids stuff in general seems to be mostly a girl thing nowadays and the boys are just supposed to enjoy it too.

I predict this will get the animat’s seal of garbage

The Story (3/10) The Animation (6/10) The Characters (4/10) I Give Spirit Untamed (4/10) Boring but better than the Show itself

Theory: the new Spirit is a descendant or reincarnation of the old Spirit. Not the most creative theory, but it's a theory that puts a bit of separation between the two.

I was expecting the horse animation, lighting and backgrounds to keep the animation rating at 7 or 8.

Spirit from 2002 is so amazing with its animation and has a Native centric story.

Did we really have to wait NINETEEN YEARS for another Spirit movie?

At least Spirit: Riding Free had the characters talk about their issues & get eventual development, as well as face genuine consequences for their mistakes - but you can’t fit as much of that into an hour & a half movie reboot.

I have a younger family member who watches this and the first time I saw it I went, "Huh, that horse looks familiar, where have I seen that?" Then I got flash backs to my elementary school pizza party where they played the original movie that made me cry.

Ulimately, by this week, it will make it a little bit over $10 Million at the Box Office, while staying below the top 3, during its box office run.

It's best to see this as a fanfiction of a classic. Kind of like how Disney rewrites the original fairytails. Once you got that pov, the movie isn't really bad, infact I thought it was pretty cute and got me watching the series.

I loved the first movie, and to me it is very underrated. This I can see as an okay spin-off film. Not my type of DreamWorks movie but not as bad as Shark Tale or The Boss Baby.

*AniMat's Reviews 2021 Ranked* *Best* #1 Raya and the Last Dragon *9/10* #2 The Mitchells vs the Machines *8.3/10* *Worst* #1 Spirit: Untamed *4.6/10* #2 Arlo the Alligator Boy *6.25/10*

It's a shame how far from grace they made spirit fall :/ i mean he literally went from being this wild stallion living his best life in the wild with his heard to a little girl's house pet. Like bruh

Wait, so this thing was released in theaters? This looks like a pure Direct to DVD movie to me.

It's just me, or the animation kinda looks like the one from the Tinkerbell movies ?

Hey the Wish Dragon is out now so can you do a review about that please?

Not going lie, I despise this movie And I haven’t seen it but, it just looks horrible. It’s all just the same as the Netflix version. No difference. Literally pen on paper next to the series. And What about the Netflix version? Well I watched the series and it is ok for being it’s own thing. But this is just lazy. I hate it to death.

This movie is part rango and how to traine your dragon with horses in a nutshell.

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarion me: best film of 02' Spirit (from the Netflix) me: the hell is this?! What the hell is this?!

Why does that girl kind of look like Merida from Brave?

The film was blandly ok. The environments were pretty, but it felt like a generic horse girl movie. I'm actually surprised that this movie actually followed the ending of the 2002 film and not the Netflix series. But this movie may be the reason we're getting Boss Baby 2 in July. Maybe DreamWorks animation just wants to get this year over with.

I recommend watching the series, it's done a lot better to me. They developed the relationship between the two in a more natural way and the characters seem more human and less bland.

1/10. No *Matt Damon.*

So... Spirit's son is ok to live with humans? Not being free and happy with his father? Wow this kid is a jerk! Sure his dad had one human friend but he didn't abandon his tribe to live with him. Why would Spirit junior, his grandma and parents would stay with humans if they don't trust them? This makes no sense :S

What?! This movie sucks that should have the animat seal of garbage! A predictable story Bad animation Forgettable characters

For me, this is still a really enjoyable movie. It has excellent art direction, animation, and compositing work that make the visuals stand out.

You should do a review on the original Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron movie.

It probably would've been a bit more interesting if it was more about Spirit and Rain's kid(s) with the main humans either being a child of either Little Creek or the Colonel. Anything but this "Horseland"-wannabe schlock.

For those of you who want to know Captain Underpants the first Epic Movie had a budget of 38 million dollars

Everyone is being way too dramatic about this movie. The original is one of my favorite movies, and I'm not exactly a huge fan of this one, but you don't see me throwing a temper tantrum about a movie as harmless as this. And everyone is whining "LoOk hOw ThEY MaSacURed My bOy." It's not even the one from the first movie, it's his son. Nothing was massacred. And Spirit Jr doesn't even get domesticated, he leaves with his herd. Just because he is capable of forming a bond with people, doesn't mean he gets domesticated.

This movie didn't need the Spirit name. If they want to make a horse-girl movie, go ahead. But it didn't need to associate itself with one of the greatest movies ever made.

I've seen just about every episode of Riding Free, and it makes me question this movie's existence.

Last comment from me I finally got it all in order Dreamworks The Croods Franchisees Prehistoric Joseph King Of Dreams 1700 BC Prince Of Egypt 1250 BCE Kung Fu Panda Franchisees (1046-256 B.C. Sinbad 733 BC and 212 BC How To Train Your Dragon Franchisees 1010 AD Shrek Franchisees 14th to 17th century Road To El Dorado 1512 Spirit 1 1860s Spirit 2 1870 Wallace And Gromit Curse Of The Were Rabbit 1950s Chicken Run 1950s Boss Baby Franchise 1980s Antz 1998 Captain Under Pants 1997-200s Shark Tale 2004 Madagascar Franchise 2005 Over The Hedge 2006 Flushed Away 2006 Bee Movie 2007 Monster Vs Aliens 2009 Megamind 2010 Rise Of The Guardians 2012 Turbo 2013 Mr Peabody And Sherman 2014 Home 2016 Trolls Franchise 2016 Abominable 2019

I don't remember how good the first Spirit movie was, I just watched it as a kid. But I imagine it's better than this one.

spirit riding free and this trash they call a movie is absolute garbage. it is an absolute spinoff. it is nothing like spirit stallion of the Cimarron, he was never supposed to be broken and he was supposed to live a good life in the wild. they completely forgot about rain, replaced rain with some beautiful golden lady horse for some reason, and of course spirit got broken by the Mary Sue pick me girl that is so quirky and special because she can ride a horse without a saddle and reins. this show offends me and so does the movie. im sure some people can agree 🤗

So basically it just forgot everything the TV show made the lore and plot for

How I loved the original 2002! watched and revisited it many times. And when I started studying in college as a traditional animator, I learned a lot about animation of horses thanks to this film. My mentor praised it very much and said what good animators worked on this project. And how this film pisses me off! Can't say anything about animation. Because I know that 3D animation is quite complex and I know how much time animators spend on it. But I think it could have been better. But the plot ... Characters ... This is terrible! I simply could not bear even a part of THIS "masterpiece". And I did not watch the episodes on TV. The trailer was enough. P.S. Here in Russia, traditional hand-drawn animation is considered the cheapest and 3D the most expensive. I heard that in America, on the contrary, the most expensive 3D. Is that true? If so, then it is more unclear why the animation in this film is of such low quality. After all, almost all the movements of the horses were copied from the 2002 film. Literally frame by frame. Yes, horse animations are complex. But since they just copied it could be better.

The reason the 1st Spirit film was so memorable was that it was from the HORSE’S perspective. This Spirit film is solely from Lucky’s perspective & that’s the problem - we’ve seen human perspectives to DEATH & it’s just not refreshing anymore when a movie’s supposed to be about horses, NOT people.

How can you compare Httyd to this!? How to train your Dragon had actually heart...

I was expecting a 7/10 at best and a 4/10 at worst

This movie was better in 2D animation but not in Pan&Scan If you remember VHS [no widescreen versions of Spirit exist. making it 3D and not using the Font that the 2002 one used [the year that I was born]

No one likes the new “Spirits” 2002 Spirit is so much better idk what happened to the animation because it (in my opinion) got SO bad every one keeps getting worse and worse to the point I will never except it as spirit no one will except two year olds

Honestly, as a person who's seen the series and both films, the series is way better then the 2021 one ( obviously ssc is better then both, but I recommend the series of you like dark themes in kids shows, it can get surprisingly dark at times. ) The story is literally just the 2 - 4th season, same exact plot with little changes. No idea why they changed the animation. The show is VERY dark at times ( example : the villains nearly kill 100+ people on a train because mc dad sent them all in jail and wants ransom for it, way more examples I have lol ) if the show was cartoony like the 2021 film, it would feel very awkward, especially since this film gets pretty intense at times. The characters in the film ( main 3 horses and girls ) all have good relationships with each other, idk why they just made them ' we just met them once and now we're best friends uwu! ' . Obviously you have more chances to develop characters in a tv show then a film, but I have no idea why they fixed a lot of things that weren't broken in the first place, and just make the story the first 4 seasons.

I could rant about why I loved the film and its flaws but I'm not gonna cuz I'm lazy and not everyone wants to hear a book about my opinion so yeah. I do agree with everything and also the HTTYD thing. Its also Flicka 2. Believe it or not the show is better.

I'm still a little disappointed they had to ruin such a wonderful IP for this.... there's any number of kids books about riding clubs that would fit so much better into this kind of story. Heck I could even recommend a bunch of them because I was a little girl that loved horses. My favourite was pony pals. The whole point of Spirit was that he was not to be owned, or kept.... "I'm never gonna ride you am I? And no one ever should." This show RUINS the impact of that line.... sigh.

Judging from the trailer, another difference from the 1st movie is it never addresses racism in the Old West. First movie had the Colonel being racist to Indians and raiding their camp. Here the mixed-race Lucky and Black Prue are treated no differently in their all-White frontier town.

I would love if they'd make a good sequel for Spirit: Stallion of the cinnamon 😅

Who else is still waiting for him to do a classic review of the original film

I actually feel sorry for this dude lol 🤣 more movies are coming in theaters

Surprised that it didn't get the seal of garbage..... wow. 😳

I've seen some of the show but not this movie, what always got me about the show was how the acted like that horse was the same as the one from th original movie, which is one of my favorite movies, not an ancestor, the same horse, why?

Really doesn't surprise me, with this being a successor after a Netflix show, it really made more for a specific audience. Honestly I could've wish this can be better even from DreamWorks being in quite a low point.

Look how they massacred my boy