What happened to the children's movies where care-free entertainment was in mind versus setting an agenda that tries to teach that white men are evil and the devil-incarnate? I rented the movie for my 6 year-old step-daughter because she loves horses. She didn't understand why the humans (evil white soldiers) would want to hurt or mistreat the horse. Half way through the movie she was crying and asked to turn the movie off, but only after enduring the horse being tied down, beaten, spurred, ridden by every soldier with little brains & an overwhelming amount of testosterone, shot at, forced to ride a train in the dead of winter, and being put under the chains to haul a train across the new railway during the expansion to the West. We ended up watching Sponge Bob to cheer her up. I think she should be watching shows that make her laugh and enjoy her childhood, not shows that confuse her on how evil white people mistreat the animals, Indians and the virgin land. What's worse is movies like this never portray the evil white people as being an isolated incident. They portray them as being the norm. I don't doubt that there are evil people out there in the world, but to try and teach a child that she comes from a lineage of evil-doers does little to improve her outlook on life, let alone it makes for terrible entertainment.
Review of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
