Black Beauty

I want to start by saying that when it was all said and done, I did end up enjoying the movie. Now on to my critique... Black Beauty was one of my absolute favorite novels when I was a young girl, and I've always loved the 90's movie adaptation. There were A LOT more changes in this new version than I was expecting, and I was not a big fan - especially with the mustang angle. I feel like they did too much to try to modernize the story and to also try to stay close to the novel, it seemed kind of cluttered. I'm a sap for any heart warming story that involves animals, though, so again I did end up enjoying it. But I think it probably would have better if they would have tried to make it more of its own film.

If you are willing to stoop to mere name recognition to get views you've already lost my respect. A black smudge on everyone involved. Am I too harsh? No. It's not a bad story and not badly executed, but when some nameless groom burns down the stable it shows disrespect to the audience on another level. This story is diametrically opposite to the story of Black Beauty.

Don't get me wrong, I love re-envisioned classics but it must be analogous to the original.

This story makes no sense in parts, poor writing. The original was 1000 x better and the book was better still. At least they knew something about horses the people who made the original. It's just laziness & sloppiness. Everything is so dumber down now in movies. It's supposed to be geared towards horse people yet any decent horse person can see flaws in any scene. Very poor writing, directing & producing. That horse definitely is not a thorobred, colic isn't caused by or have anything to do with the lungs. How do these people get to make movies. Most movies are horribly written now. I didn't go to film school but I can make a better movie than 95% of stuff that comes out now. Where are they getting these people from?

It annoyed me that they kept trying to pass off a very obviously tall thoroughbred as a mustang...I liked the movie otherwise. It wasn't perfect, but worth the watch.

Black Beauty was a horse born in Britain and raised on a country farm. In the movie, they keep calling Beauty a mustang, which is a SMALL wild horse. Beauty is not small, not in the books, and not in this movie. Whoever wrote the screenplay for this movie knows NOTHING about horses, and it shows.