Leap! (Ballerina)
A 3D computer-animated musical adventure comedy of a vagrant young lady who longs for turning into a ballet dancer and escapes her rustic Brittany for Paris, where she was mistaken for another person and acquiesces to the position of understudy at the Grand Opera house
11 July 1986, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
6 February 1986, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
6 January 1984, Sea Cliff, New York, USA
17 December 1994, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 December 1957, Montréal, Québec, Canada
9 April 1998, Conyers, Georgia, USA
21 November 1985, Mission, British Columbia, Canada
29 October 1948, Montreal, Québec, Canada
28 June 1926, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
10 January 1958, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
30 September 2002, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
February 02, 2017
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]
March 03, 2017
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.
March 02, 2017
Perfectly animated leaps and bounds can only provide so much distraction.
February 01, 2017
A film that ranks among the best of recent animated cinema because the show of interiors and the urban landscape is as brilliant as it is trustworthy. [Full review in Spanish]
March 02, 2017
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.
March 29, 2017
Even if it never quite takes the risks implied by its exclamatory title ... "Leap!" follows the established steps with general grace and good humor.
March 02, 2017
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.
March 01, 2017
Ballerina would be just another predictable, rags-to-riches, girl-follows-her-dreams movie if it weren't for one big factor: it's set in fin-de-siècle Paris.
January 26, 2017
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]
March 03, 2017
With its over-familiar story and missed opportunities -- it settles for cute when it could be charming -- Ballerina is too clunky and unco-ordinated to be a classic, but young dance fans may still be inspired.
February 01, 2017
The profound weaknesses of the film are manifested in the characters movements that don't evoke the grace of classical dance and, on the other hand, evidence the limitations of its digital animation. [Full review in Spanish]
March 13, 2017
[Ballerina offers] some interesting and thoroughly entertaining observations about what it takes to achieve your dreams.
