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Shrek and Kung Fu Panda, to How To Train Your Dragon and Abominable, see every Tomatometer score from the animation studio!

Over the years (especially recently), theres been more characters played by and representing people from indigenous communities across many genres of movies and TV.

The animals do not speak in "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," and I think that's important to the film's success. It elevates the story from a children's fantasy to one wider audiences can enjoy, because although the stallion's adventures are admittedly pumped-up melodrama, the hero is nevertheless a horse and not a human with four legs. There is a whole level of cuteness that the movie avoids, and a kind of narrative strength it gains in the process.

‘Spirit Untamed’ Review: A Reminder Of A Pre-‘Shrek’ DreamWorks Animation Share to Facebook Share to Linkedin (from left) Abigail Stone (Mckenna Grace) riding Boomerang, Lucky Prescott (Isabela Merced) riding Spirit and Pru Granger (Marsai Martin) riding Chica Linda in DreamWorks Animation’s Spirit Untamed, directed by Elaine Bogan. © 2021 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved. The strangest thing about Spirit Untamed is that it is opening in theaters this F...