Black Beauty

So I was scared to see this. But gave in. Black Beauty was one of my favorites growing up. Not 100% upset with it but I got weird Flicka vibes. Was like Black Beauty meets Flicka.

A nice short and simple movie with the story we all know. Nothing wrong how they proceeded with it. And the cast is quite interesting too. Can be watched with family as it doesn't have any gratuitous content. PS : the horse actually looks very beautiful.

So its 2020, let's take the boy out and put in a chick. Let's make the stallion a mare. Let's take them out of London and put in the wild west. Let's make him/her sorry, a mustang and not a carriage horse. Seriously? This is sickening. Call the horse something else. Why would you change all of this and it has nothing to do with the book or the other films. 1994 one is the ultimate best, the cartoon from 78 is good but good luck finding it. Like the new Magnificent 7 or the new upcoming Wild Bunch, this is another i refuse to watch. Hollywood sinks to a new all time low.

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.

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.