Academy Awards, USA 2003
| Nominee Oscar | Best Animated Feature Jeffrey Katzenberg |
DreamWorks Pictures
Directed by Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, DreamWorks)
A wild horse named Spirit is captured by the Cavalry in the old west near the Grand Canyon. He refuses to be broken, even by a determined officer, who almost kills the horse if not for the last second actions of an Indian also held prisoner. Horse and Indian soon escape, but Spirit, now fearful of all humans, still refuses to be broken. He does, however, begin to fall for the Indian's other horse, a female named Rain, but cannot convince her to return to the wild. Soon, the Cavalry returns and this time it is the horse that saves the Indian's life, but he gets captured in the process. He is put with a team that is hauling a massive locomotive over a mountain, which he manages to sabotage. The old west setting is occasionally gorgeous, well at least by early CGI terms, but the anthropomorphism of the horse characters is a hard pill to swallow.
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