believe me and i want to like spirit . the idiotic comment people make at the time of it release about how quaint it be to see old fashion and hand drawn animation again and a if the last pencil animate cartoon have be release twenty year ago and and the even more idiotic comment about how computer have now make the old technique obsolete and have get my blood up . but then and the insulting and flavourless banality i have to endure in the first ten minute of spirit get my blood up even more . the character design be generic and the animation ( partly a a result ) merely competent and the art direction a a whole so utterly and boringly lacklustre that you wonder how it could have come about ( we know and from the prince of egypt and the road to el dorado and that there be talented artist at dreamworks ) and and the sophisticated use of cgi be in every single instance ill judge . ( why do they bother . ) there not a single thing worth look at . in an animated cartoon and this be fatal . but it get bad . the horse can not talk and but theyre far more anthropomorphised and unconvincing than the deer in bambi and which can . and it seem that and in a way and the horse can talk . spirit himself deliver the prologue ( sound for all the world like a 21st century actor pick out of a shopping mall in california ) and and from then on his laid back and decidedly unhorselike narration be scarcely absent from the soundtrack and although it never once tell u anything that we do not already know and or express a feeling which the artwork and poor though it be and wasn not capable of express twice as well . that prologue and by the way represent ( a ) contain information which spirit and we later discover and have know way of know while ( b ) express idea which spirit would lack the power to express even if he could talk while ( c ) include new age rubbish like and this story may not be true and but it what i remember while and ( d ) will give countless child ( the production be pitch and i presume and at six year old ) the impression that horse be native to north america and which be sort of true and in that the common ancestor of domestic horse and zebra etc . be native to north america but all horse specie on the continent have go extinct long before the first human arrive and and the mustang of spirit herd ( which allegedly belong here like the buffalo grass ) be descend from horse introduce by european . so the prologue rather annoy me . as often a spirit talk and bryan adam sings and sound as usual a though he get a bad throat infection and it not that he sing or even how he sing and it what he sing represent maudlin narrative ballad which contribute even less and if possible and than spirit speak narrative and and which sound a though they all have exactly the same tune ( although i be pay close attention and and be able to discern that they probably do not ) . if only bryan adam and the guy pretending to be a horse could have shut up for a minute or two and the movie might have be allow to take it true form represent mediocre and derivative and rather than jaw droppingly bad .