Release Date:
12/25/2003
Family movies that warm the heart are the norm every holiday season. But theres also garbage like this. The Young Black Stallion is a prequel nobody wanted to see, based loosely on the original movie about a black horse trying to fight da Man. Set in IMAX to maximize its terribleness, the kids story opens with a little girl getting rescued in the desert by a black horse, then spends the rest of its brief running time (45 minutes) hanging with her little pony until she inexplicably chooses to race against sword-wielding men. (Dont ask.) Sure, its a kids movie, and we didnt expect to be blown away by a complex story, but it is being shown exclusively in IMAX theaters and doesnt even capitalize on the gi-normous screen. The only humane choice for this poor stallion is to take it out back and put it to sleep. By which we mean, of course, chop it into pieces and make some glue.