Spirit Untamed

By Erin

Spirit Untamed is the follow up to the 2002 animated classic Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is the story of a young girl who befriends a wild mustang and goes on an epic adventure with her two best friends to rescue the horse that forever changed her life. Spirit Untamed is available on Digital and on Blu-ray/DVD now!

To celebrate the film’s release, we had a fun Spirit Untamed outdoor movie night! After a month of chaos and healing from a wisdom tooth surgery I was so happy to be able to actually ENJOY a movie night again. It also melted my heart to see how excited my niece was about Spirit and all of his buddies. Her eyes lit up seeing all the fun Spirit themed activities.

It’s crazy how much my niece Nora looks like Abigail, what do you think? From the hair cut, blonde hair and super bright blue eyes. They could be twins. Ha! She loved playing with Abigail and her horse Boomerang and brushing their hair.

Before watching the movie we also did some fun activities from the book and started painting a horse.

Spirit Untamed is an epic adventure about a headstrong girl longing for a place to belong who discovers a kindred spirit when her life intersects with a wild horse, Spirit Untamed is the next chapter in the beloved story from DreamWorks Animation.

Lucky Prescott (Isabela Merced, Dora and the Lost City of Gold) never really knew her late mother, Milagro Navarro (Eiza González, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw), a fearless horse-riding stunt performer from Miradero, a small town on the edge of the wide-open frontier.

Like her mother, Lucky isn’t exactly a fan of rules and restrictions, which has caused her Aunt Cora (Academy Award® winner Julianne Moore) no small amount of worry. Lucky has grown up in an East Coast city under Cora’s watchful eye, but when Lucky presses her own luck with one too many risky escapades, Cora picks up stakes and moves them both back with Lucky’s father, Jim (Oscar® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal), in Miradero.

Lucky is decidedly unimpressed with the sleepy little town. She has a change of heart when she meets Spirit, a wild Mustang who shares her independent streak, and befriends two local horseback riders, Abigail Stone (Mckenna Grace, Captain Marvel) and Pru Granger (Marsai Martin, Little). Pru’s father, stable owner Al Granger (Emmy winner Andre Braugher, Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine), is the best friend of Lucky’s father.

When a heartless horse wrangler (Emmy nominee Walton Goggins, FX’s Justified) and his team plan to capture Spirit and his herd and auction them off to a life of captivity and hard labor, Lucky enlists her new friends and bravely embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to rescue the horse who has given her freedom and a sense of purpose, and has helped Lucky discover a connection to her mother’s legacy and to her Mexican heritage that she never expected.

Spirit Untamed is the next chapter in DreamWorks Animation’s beloved franchise that began with the 2002 Oscar-nominated film Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron and includes an Emmy-winning TV series. The film is directed by Elaine Bogan (Netflix and DreamWorks Animation Television’s Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia) and is produced by Karen Foster (co-producer, How to Train Your Dragon). The film’s co-director is Ennio Torresan (head of story, The Boss Baby), and the film’s score is by composer Amie Doherty (Amazon’s Undone, DreamWorks Animation’s Marooned).

Cast:Isabela Merced, Julianne Moore, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marsai Martin, Mckenna Grace, Walton Goggins, Andre Braugher and Eiza González
Director:Elaine Bogan
Producer:Karen Foster 

Spirit Untamed makes for the perfect movie night! All your little horse crazy cowgirls and cowboys will LOVE this one.