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Ballerina's rich setting and beautifully animated dance sequences elevate a solidly crafted all-ages adventure with a surprising amount of colorful flair.
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This serviceable French-Canadian digimation cleaves to the post-Cowell definition of the word "journey": its heroine is a redheaded dreamer (voiced by Elle Fanning) who flees her orphanage to blag a spot at the fin de siècle Paris Opera. Jun 13, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This serviceable French-Canadian digimation cleaves to the post-Cowell definition of the word "journey": its heroine is a redheaded dreamer (voiced by Elle Fanning) who flees her orphanage to blag a spot at the fin de siècle Paris Opera.
Mike McCahill
Ballerina is an animation that's ideal for junior balletomanes. Jun 13, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Ballerina is an animation that's ideal for junior balletomanes.
Kate Muir
The film's realism extends to the dance sequences themselves, animated using footage of real dancers from the Opera-Ballet for reference. Perhaps for this reason, they're more technically impressive than truly thrilling. Jun 13, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
The film's realism extends to the dance sequences themselves, animated using footage of real dancers from the Opera-Ballet for reference. Perhaps for this reason, they're more technically impressive than truly thrilling.
Jake Wilson
It is a holiday film for everybody -- girls, boys and adults, no matter how jaded their taste for "family fare". Jun 13, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It is a holiday film for everybody -- girls, boys and adults, no matter how jaded their taste for "family fare".
Sandra Hall
There's plenty of visual whimsy in the late-19th-century setting - the animators render a gorgeous Paris - while enthusiastic dance sequences and comic beats balance out melodrama. Jun 13, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
There's plenty of visual whimsy in the late-19th-century setting - the animators render a gorgeous Paris - while enthusiastic dance sequences and comic beats balance out melodrama.
Linda Barnard
At one point, Félicie's ballet teacher tells her that she has "the energy of a bullet" but no technique or focus; the same is true of Ballerina itself. Jun 13, 2017 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
At one point, Félicie's ballet teacher tells her that she has "the energy of a bullet" but no technique or focus; the same is true of Ballerina itself.
Alison Broverman
The title of this French animation will be catnip to a certain demographic - young, fond of a tutu, dreams of Swan Lake in their hearts. Aug 23, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The title of this French animation will be catnip to a certain demographic - young, fond of a tutu, dreams of Swan Lake in their hearts.
Alison Rowat
The filmmakers take few false (or risky) steps... [Full review in Spanish] Mar 28, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The filmmakers take few false (or risky) steps... [Full review in Spanish]
Javier Cortijo
Cheesy Euro ballerina-porn cartoon is full of dated animation, cringeworthy attempts at humor, bizarre anachronisms, and a terrible message for little kids. Aug 21, 2017 | Rating: 0.5/5 | Full Review…
Cheesy Euro ballerina-porn cartoon is full of dated animation, cringeworthy attempts at humor, bizarre anachronisms, and a terrible message for little kids.
MaryAnn Johanson
The ballet sequences remain curiously earthbound in an animated film untethered from physical reality that can't compete with the dazzling, gravity-defying dance-offs of live-action fare like the Step Up movies. Jun 13, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The ballet sequences remain curiously earthbound in an animated film untethered from physical reality that can't compete with the dazzling, gravity-defying dance-offs of live-action fare like the Step Up movies.
Radheyan Simonpillai
Even though it seeks to fit in trying to look like an American animation, its scent of illustrated European children's story is perceived. [Full review in Spanish] Jun 13, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Even though it seeks to fit in trying to look like an American animation, its scent of illustrated European children's story is perceived. [Full review in Spanish]
Marcos Gandía
The film, although is full of common places, has its greater interest in the recreation of that Paris and in some choreographies that only the drawing makes possible. [Full review in Spanish] Jun 13, 2017 | Full Review…
The film, although is full of common places, has its greater interest in the recreation of that Paris and in some choreographies that only the drawing makes possible. [Full review in Spanish]
Fernando Lopez
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