Film Preview: Leap! (2017)

Page Revisions:

(January 15, 2017) Original
(April 2, 2017) New Trailer (#3) / New Release Date (changed from 3/3/17)
(August 20, 2017) New Release Date (changed from 4/21/17)

Release Date:

August 25, 2017

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “Set in 1879 Paris. An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.”

Poster Rating: C / B / C / C-

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Review: (#1) It is daunting, but is it that interesting? No. (#2) Lots of interesting details in this design, which makes it almost beautiful. (#3) If the audience were interesting in a young ballerina, maybe they’d be interested in this. I doubt it, though. (#4) Here are your characters, a pale background and a previously-used core image. So exciting.

Trailer Rating: C- / C / C-

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Review: (#1) The film looks overly precious. It also looks like something that might have been made by a small direct-to-video outlet hoping to make money by knocking off Disney films. (#2) The second trailer improves some on the prior trailer, but the animation is so chunky and off-putting in places that I’d be surprised if it actually succeeded.

(#3) If the prior trailers didn’t already give the impression, this one certainly does, of a film that’s poorly animated, cheesily voiced, and looks like it would be at home on Disney’s cable channel as an original and childish production.