“Leap!”, released last Friday, is a wonderful tale of an orphaned girl, Felicie, who finds herself in Paris with no money, at only 11 years old, and somehow she gets into an Opera Ballet school to pursue her dream: to become a dancer. She has to deal with stuck up rich kids, who she is pretending to be one of. Somehow nobody catches on to this major flaw in her character, except her new best friend, Victor, who wants to be an inventor. Together, they pursue their huge dreams without any real reasons for them to be where they are.

There isn’t much more that you need to know about the plot, because that’s it.

The characters overly fit the archetypes for any lead character in the history of cinema. So much so, that this is the first animated movie where the acting was bad. The comedy was maybe laughable the first time around, but the jokes were repeated too many times to get even a chuckle.

Despite all of the horrible things about the movie, it had its moments. Instead of trying to focus on what the movie is supposed to be about — Felicie’s dream of dancing — for some reason they start to focus on the love story. There is another “man” apart from Victor who is trying to get Felicie’s heart also, even though he’s honestly just a big jerk. Still, 11-year-old Felicie thinks that he’s cute. She eventually realizes that she’s leaving behind the one person who is actually nice to her, Victor, so she essentially friendzones the other guy. So there you go, there’s the entire love story in a nutshell.

The completely useless love subplot didn’t make me get up and leave for one reason: it was made for children. A child would have loved the movie and probably been inspired by Felicie’s persistence and courage. A teenager would most likely have been confused by pretty much every action that any of the characters made at any point in the movie. For children, this movie was great. So any complaint on this review is negated, because that was why the movie was created.