‘Spirit Untamed’ Review: Cut-Rate DreamWorks Cartoon Recycles Netflix Series
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticA kid named Lucky loses her mother, moves to the frontier with her father and befriends a wild mustang in “Spirit Untamed.” While experienced professionals fail to break the strong-willed stallion, Lucky (who has never ridden a horse) feeds it a few apples, and before long, the youngster has tamed the obstinate animal — which is inconsistent with this cheap and all-around lazy animated movie’s title, but chalk that up to marketing.While Disney churns out live-action remakes of its most popular cartoons, DreamWorks Animation has another strategy: For every modestly successful theatrical release (and even a few less so, like racing snail saga “Turbo”), it spins off an episodic TV series to Netflix or