Mel Brooks and Kate McKinnon's voice talents are totally wasted on this humorless children's movie from the Weinstein Company. Generations apart, but connected by chutzpah and talent, Mel Brooks and ...
The refreshing thing about "Leap!" is that it's a rare animated film with a female lead who isn't a princess, or the goal of becoming one. Its heroine, an Elle Fanning-voiced orphan who longs to ...
An orphan girl’s dream of becoming a top ballerina in Paris hardly sounds like the stuff of big-time animated fare, not unless the “girl” were a talking ferret or goat or wombat or whatever, followed ...
PLOT In the late 1800s, a French orphan girl travels to Paris in the hopes of dancing in the ballet. BOTTOM LINE An animated French Canadian import with little charm or wit. In the animated film “Leap ...
An animated “Flashdance” meets “Cinderella,” “LEAP !” isn’t so much bad as it is bewildering. The feature about an orphan girl who dreams of dancing professionally is set very vaguely in the 1880s, in ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two and one-half stars. Rated PG. At area theaters. Contains some impolite humor and action. 89 minutes. By Susan Wloszczyna Anyone who’s ever dreamed of ...
You would think in a sweet, inspirational story about a young girl realizing her dream to become a ballerina in 19th-century Paris you’d be able to escape the gross-out scatological humor that ...
The new animated film Leap! has a strange, and storied background — and we’re not even talking about the film’s story. Leap! was originally released last year in Europe under the title Ballerina, to ...