Mel Brooks and Kate McKinnon's voice talents are totally wasted on this humorless children's movie from the Weinstein Company. Generations apart, but connected by chutzpah and talent, Mel Brooks and ...

PLOT In the late 1800s, a French orphan girl travels to Paris in the hopes of dancing in the ballet. BOTTOM LINE An animated French Canadian import with little charm or wit. In the animated film “Leap ...

At first glance, the new film Leap! feels like an empowering story of an orphan making her dreams a reality. It is the late 19th century in France, and our heroine, Félicie (Elle Fanning), wants ...

An orphan girl’s dream of becoming a top ballerina in Paris hardly sounds like the stuff of big-time animated fare, not unless the “girl” were a talking ferret or goat or wombat or whatever, followed ...

"Leap!" is the kind of movie where if you see someone holding a stack of dishes, they will certainly break in the name of a lazy comedic moment. There seem to be two jobs in this film: floor scrubber ...

“Leap” is an animated adventure about an aspiring ballerina who, over the course of the tale, becomes increasingly graceful. So it is ironic – and frustrating – that “Leap” stumbles down its climactic ...

Leap! has taken a very peculiar path. It actually came out a year ago under the title Ballerina, appearing in both France and the UK. Now the Weinstein Company has delivered the movie to US theaters.

If you are finally ready to mix things up and listen to something besides the — admittedly glorious — Moana soundtrack on an endless loop, then you need to turn your attention to the French-Canadian ...

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Leap! premiered last week and we can't stop dancing to Carly Rae Jepsen's "Cut To The Feeling" from the movie. An ensemble of stars lent their voices to the movie including: Elle Fanning, Nat Wolff, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two and one-half stars. Rated PG. At area theaters. Contains some impolite humor and action. 89 minutes. By Susan Wloszczyna Anyone who’s ever dreamed of ...

Anyone who’s ever dreamed of tutus, tights and toe shoes will likely get a kick out of “Leap!” But the Weinstein Company’s first animated film under the Mizchief banner — the tale of a determined ...