unmitigated garbage!

Rating: 2/10 (16 December 2010)

what a disappointment! shame on Disney for taking such a beautiful tale and loading the script with contemporary dialogue, psychology, and other claptrap. save your money and treasure their classics! obviously, the bar and standard for excellence have been lowered. reminds me of pathetic remakes of beautiful, old movies. visually, there is only one scene of any aesthetic note. the rest is caught up in "gee, don't freak out" gunk, weird, illogical character transformations, a screwed-up horse who thinks he's a dog (what? horses don't have enough nobility in and of themselves??), and absurd songs - not to mention some rather violent scenes that i don't consider appropriate for small children (yup, there were kids "freaking out" at the theatre). if you can't honor the gist and beauty of the beautiful, older fairy tales, leave them alone for others to treasure as they were meant to be written and experienced!