Mike Hill (ThatMikeHill)
If you're a parent, and you believe in your children's dreams and potentials, you will love this movie!
In my review, I just want to extend my gratitude to the creators of LEAP. It's a breath of fresh air to see a film that encourages kids to dream and dream big. This world will try to steal your dreams, we need more movies like this to encourage children (and adults) to continue to follow their dreams."Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn't stuck with the present."
"Those who believe they can move mountains,do.Those who believe they can't,cannot."
-David J Schwartz in Magic of Thinking Big
OhoMaka
A beautiful movie altogether. The characters and the city of Paris look fantastic. The story is somewhat predictable, yes, but that does not take away from the charm of the film.
I was also very surprised by how accurately the scene in which Felicie's eyes tear up was animated. Not tears falling down the cheeks but the actual redness of the eyes as they fill up with tears is moving.
Another great thing about the movie is it is clearly and completely Felicie's story. There are many side characters but they compliment to the story of Felicie. It would have been a bad decision to add a side story for Viktor or anybody else. Now the focus is on the main character all the time - a brave and excellent decision.
On the negatives, the outside action scene at the end is pointless and a bit embarrassing (gladly it's a short one) and the casting of the voices of Felicie and Viktor is not great. I actually preferred the version that was dubbed into my own language.
But aside from that, I enjoyed the movie and wanted to spend more time with the characters.
momuse88
I just got done watching this with my daughter. It really is a beautifully animated movie with a strong art direction. The artists clearly did a lot of research into studying how dancers move. I think kids will enjoy it, but if you've been watching movies for any number of years then you have seen this movie hundreds of times already. It's insanely formulaic... the main protagonist grows up in the slums with nothing but a music box and a dream... a string of convenient and preposterous events that take her right to the top, every other character in the movie has little to no character development and are simply there to play the Greek chorus to Felicie's interests and push her along her way. Any time when the writers need to get Felicie from point A to point B they bring it any number of the side characters they have introduced thus far (who apparently have zero life) and magically whisk Felicie away to her destination. There's lots of "Whooooooo"-ing in this film. There's an end sequence I won't spoil her but I'm pretty sure one of the writers said, "It's not necessary to the story, but we haven't used enough kid movie tropes yet so let's make a ridiculous action scene that makes zero sense." I can handle a lot of kid movie stupidity, but my jaw gaped slightly from how over-the-top it is.I also wanted to make a special point to say that the voice acting is really uninspired. There is not attempt at all to bring the audience into the time period or the fact that this takes place in Paris. Imagine your next door neighbor walking up to you and saying, "That suck, bro." And now take that and put it into a movie that takes place during Napoleonic France. To be fair, as a 30 year old man I'm sure I'm not the target audience for this film. If you like dancing, are a kid, don't care about original stories, then I think you'll enjoy this movie.
ElliesWonder
A cliché and corny plot collection story that a messing around girl ends up to be a winner. What a terrible leading character! She is a runaway troublemaker, a false identity user, a liar and a thief. She stole the letter from her employer and used others recommendation letter to replace her identity. These are the serious crime. Besides, she is bad mannered, no appreciation to the cleaning lady who taught her dancing skills, and blindly proud of her strength, turned out she failed the audition. No idea why this kind of character will success at the end. This is a bad influence to watch. 2 terrible issues in real life 1)teenage runaway, 2)false id use.
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