Think THE LION KING redone for horses, with fewer deliberate laughs, more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by Bryan Adams, the world's most generic rock star. Think also an unholy mess that's far too intense and frightening for the small children who are its intended demographic (the G rating is hard to figure; at a pre-release screening hordes of tykes were escorted out of the theater crying in terror), and is, at best, a real camp hoot for any hapless adult trapped into watching it. Even worse, the film's much-ballyhooed merger of traditional hand-drawn and computer-generated animation is an uneasy fit; there are spectacular sequences, to be sure, but al...
Released:
2002
Rated:
G
Length:
82 mins