Synopsis
Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
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Cast
- Isabela MercedLucky Prescott (voice)
- Julianne MooreAunt Cora (voice)
- Marsai MartinPrudence Granger (voice)
- Mckenna GraceAbigail Stone (voice)
- Walton GogginsHendricks (voice)
- Jake GyllenhaalJim Prescott (voice)
- Gary A. HeckerHorse Vocals (voice)
- Eiza GonzálezMilagro Navarro Prescott (voice)
- Andre BraugherAl Granger (voice)
- Lucian PerezSnips Stone (voice)
Recommendations
- 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Whatever its weaknesses, contemporary parents who want a nontoxic Western to show their children could hardly find better than “Spirit Untamed.” It takes the idea at the end of genre master John Ford’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend”) and virtually rides off in its own, counter-mythic direction with it. - 63
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Audiences won’t likely find it Pixar-profound, but it’s not direct-to-DVD forgettable, either — or “My-Little-Pony”-cloying. Plus, it’s got horses. And, if you’re younger than 13, that counts for something. - 58
The A.V. Club
Though it’s nominally liberated from its TV backstory, Spirit Untamed could still have benefited from a little more freedom. - 58
IndieWire
Fans of the original film will still find something beautiful underneath, and “Riding Free” acolytes will likely delight in seeing a splashier take on a story they already love. Everyone else, however, might wonder when they can hope to be set free from this story, just like Spirit. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Spirit Untamed is beautiful to look at and occasionally genuinely funny. The stunning and detailed animations saturate Lucky’s world with an impressive array of colors, from the crimson apples she feeds Spirit to the pistachio and emerald-green leaves on the swaying trees. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Despite the predictable plot, there are moments of genuine delight – and they all come from the fresh talent. - 50
Screen Daily
A girl-and-her-horse adventure that never really hits its stride, Spirit Untamed offers undemanding family entertainment alongside some easily digestible life lessons. - 50
Slashfilm
Spirit Untamed is inoffensive, which both makes it far more tolerable than most other DreamWorks Animation titles and also not terribly good in and of itself.
