Leap! wants to be a grand jeté, but it's stuck in first position.

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 31, 2017

The well-chosen voice cast helps make this a fairly engaging tale, even though the film is riddled with a wealth of head-scratching anachronistic errors.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2017

Leap! follows a pretty simple formula, but the animation during the ballet scenes is lively and well-done. It's spirited enough to keep the film from feeling too familiar.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 28, 2017

The anachronistic pop songs actually work quite nicely with the scenes of classical dancing, and will most likely help hold the attention of the little ones.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2017

The French animated adventure Leap! is at turns stupendous and insufferable, the film never showing enough faith in its audience in order for the lovely little scenario of resilience and fortitude at the heart of things to ever resonate . . .

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2017

Though the mix of poppy power anthems and Tchaikovsky isn't seamless and the familiar plot points are less than transporting, there's a beating heart to this tween story to match its exuberant dance sequences.

| Aug 25, 2017

An animated fairytale that adheres to formula, but manages to stick its landing.

| Original Score: B | Aug 25, 2017

One of the few animated films this summer aimed squarely at female audiences, Leap! is cute and heartfelt, even if the story itself is fairly typical.

| Original Score: 3.5 | Aug 25, 2017

Even the moments of grace are eventually stained by the bodily functions humor and flurry of pratfalls that are always around the corner.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 24, 2017

So many haphazard elements to "Leap!" that it never comes together.

| Aug 24, 2017

"Leap!" would be amiable if a bit dull if not for a crucial misjudgment about the main character's choices and completely unfounded total changes of personality.

| Original Score: C | Aug 24, 2017

The script is brimming with half-baked ideas, drilling far too much fluffy nonsense about achieving one's dreams into our skulls before the film crosses the 10-minute mark.

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 24, 2017

The most entertaining and sensitively handled parts of Leap! are in the more human-sized feelings of nurtured passion and artistic bonding that any good tale of the fleet of foot requires.

| Aug 24, 2017

Félicie deserves better. So does dance.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 24, 2017

"Leap!" is a step up from Weinstein's "Shrek"-on-a-budget "Hoodwinked" films, and it makes the most of its distinctly Old World aesthetic and enticing character design.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 24, 2017

The animated film requires some suspension of disbelief, but it mostly succeeds thanks to its Parisian setting and its heroine's charm.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2017

Cliches, cheap laughs, narrative short cuts and budget animation undermine an otherwise sweet tale of self-empowerment that should have stuck the landing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2017

While the debut release from the Weinstein Company's new 'toon venture sets its dancing against some spectacular backdrops, there are nagging issues with spotty character animation and endlessly predictable storytelling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 24, 2017

It understandably wants to deliver the message that you can achieve anything if you just put your heart into it. That might hold true for boxing, karate and even Olympic bobsledding - but ballet? What's French for "get real"?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 24, 2017

While the animation here is reasonably polished for a lower-tier cartoon, it struggles with how to best depict dancing, an action not always well-suited to this medium.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 24, 2017