OH MY LIFE!!! Have you heard yourselves! OK it doesn’t have the best sound track in the world, it’s not the greatest storyline I’ve ever heard; but come on guys, this ain’t the worst movie you’ll ever see and if you care to remove your sinikle (not sure how to spell that) bloody blinkers for one moment, you’d see that in it was actually pretty good with the exception of the animation, which in places was astounding! Now I know that the general consensus is that animated movies are just for kids (I for one disagree), what’s wrong with not having a lip-synked horse and a horse that portrays its emotions through its movement; because I hate to tell all of you who don’t live in the countryside… Horses don’t damn well talk, they have an emotional language of their own! What’s wrong with doing something different, maybe something a bit more mature! And as for the chap who predicts the doomed end of 2D feature animation due to the current 3D fad (not that I don’t like some of it), let me tell you this: Quality 2D animation will never disappear just as long as there are people like me who will never abandon our drawing boards and are quite prepared to work towards a great feature while on the dole! Walt Disney, Ollie Johnston, Milt Kahl, Frank Thomas and company did not work for the best part of a century to discover this beautiful art only for it to be lost before our eyes.

Spirit is a one in century animation, you just have to keep it up for the job well done.

Spirit is the best movie what i am ever see

At last awn has begind the scenes of spirit. I am an animator and also wanted to know the secrets behind the making of this movie. I have watched this movie 14 times to watch the movements and the textures . Greate music too. What i`de ask to the people who read this is , is the softwares used in the making of this Successful MOvvie.

I love Spirit: it captured the dignity, the emotion, and the feelings of horses. In a way, Spirit becomes the spirit of all horses that people will come across after watching the movie. the songs were the feeling behind Spirit as he struggled through the world of humans. This movie is one of the best animated films i have seen.

DreamWorks needs A LOT of work when it comes to their story department. I don't care if you have the nine old men animating the movie...if the story is weak then the movie as a whole will suffer. When you think about it, there is hardly a story to be told in Spirit. A horse gets caught, more than once, then wants to escape. Hmmmm. The only obstacles in his way are all physical; not emotional or intellectual. Spirit does nothing in the movie that shows us his inner self. It was the equivalent of watching someone jumping over hurdles in the Olympics. There's no suspense or real motivation to his actions. He just does things because he's written to do them. It doesn't have to be Shakespeare but DreamWorks should at least adhere to some of the classic storytelling principles. DreamWorks is so concerned with the aesthetics of a film that they forget about the story (with the exception of the 2 animated features not produced at the Glendale facility: Shrek and Chicken Run....coincidence? hmmmm). It's a shame that they have all that talent over there yet they can't seem to learn that reinventing the storytelling wheel doesn't work. Disney has created classic after classic because they focused on the story first then the animation second (I'm speaking of the films made mainly with Walt). Now Pixar is copying that same old method of storytelling. Their movies reflect it. Well told story with very appealing characters. DreamWorks could take a lesson or two from Pixar. I bet Pixar could tell a story with paper cutouts and make it more interesting than Spirit. Let's hope that they do something different with Sindbad. Oh wait. They're Katzenberg's DreamWorks. They already animated a lot of the poorly developed story...I've seen it.

Heard great things about the movie. I love to ride horses. can't wait to see it.

Its hard to say how "Spirit" will do. Considering that I haven't seen it yet, and I scared about how bad it might effect the animation world. Considering that Disney is closing their doors in five years to go completly 3D, the studios out there have to come up with a BETTER story. Come on, the horses dont talk, and thats what attracts the kids attention. "Shrek" was a great film, because of the story, and the characters. If studios continue to pump out films that dont have great storys, and characters we can attract to, then 2d animation for feature is doomed. Cheers!

My hat is off to Dreamworks for taking another step in a new direction. Beautifully animated without trying to be to hip, and without innuendo, or undertones, or topical gag humor. Its a clean film, and beautiful, and as 3d steps overtakes this industry, its quite possibly the last of its kind.. If you need a break from all the fast cutting, digital/phasers/explosions, then give this simple film a try. I think you'll be quite impressed. As an audience member, you need to choose carefully what type of film you want to support. Especially at the dawn of this digital age, your movie ticket dollar really plays a roll in which films will be offered in the future.. So I ask that you NOT give any studio exec, reasons to someday greenlight a Scooby Doo IV, or a 'Bullwinkle Babies', or "Hunchback of 105 dalmations returns to Jungle never-never land III". If you want more originality, or experimentation in your feature animation choices, then support films like 'the Waking Life', or Nightmare before Christmas, or any of Myazaki's work. Support Pixar's brilliant story crew, and Aardman's originality, and Shrek. And if you dont know who Hogarth is, meet him and his metal man in "Iron Giant." Go to local festivals and support those independant animators, and they will blow you away with humor and content and creativity at levels that Hollywood just cant factor in their formula spreadsheets.. (I tell you there is some FANTASTIC talent out there..) Great films are original films. Please support creativity and craft,, not crap. Viva animation!

Spirit sucks.....period.