NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Michael_Elliott The Centaurs (1921)This Winsor McCay short is certainly worth watching if you're a fan of his work but sadly it's only available in fragments as some of the footage has been lost over time. What we basically have are some examples of a centaurs family (half human, half horse creatures) as they walk around in the woods. Again, since the film is incomplete it's hard to know exactly what McCay was going for but there's enough footage here to at least get a good idea of what the animation was like. I thought all of the creatures looked extremely good and I thought McCay did a nice job with the style of their bodies and how the human aspect of them were added in. I also thought the background work was pretty impressive and especially early on when we see one of the creatures walking through the woods. With that said, the one thing I thought was lacking was the quality of bringing the creatures to life and making you feel as if they're real. This is something shown in McCay's earlier work but it is missing here.

tavm I saw three versions of this on YouTube (as linked from Google Video). One of them had a heavy metal score that seemed WAY unsuitable. Beautiful images of the forest and the half human-half horse figures that still makes one take his/her breath away some 86 years later. Would be nice to see if any other fragments have survived of this most fascinating film from the father of animation, Winsor McCay. As it is, it's still interesting to watch a young centaur couple try to get the approval of the older one and then have have a young boy who says "thank you" at the end. And thank you, Mr. McCay for all your contributions to the art of animation.

Snow Leopard The surviving fragment of "The Centaurs" shows it to be an unusual and detailed piece of animation by Winsor McCay. The creatures and the backgrounds are drawn with considerable care and interesting detail that would almost have made it worth looking at even if there weren't any action.The half-human, half-horse centaur is one of the most popular of the fantastic creatures from mythology, and McCay's depiction of them works almost as well as any computer- generated image could. The two parts of the creatures fit together well, with the human part giving them personality and the horse part giving them a stylish appearance. The woods, hills, and meadows are also drawn very nicely.What exists of the movie doesn't last very long, but it tells enough of a story to show what the whole might have been like and to make it worth seeing.

boblipton Only a small part of this cartoon survive, about a minute and a half of lovely images by the foremost cartoonist of the the early 20th century. Several of Windsor McCay's cartoons are considered classics of the art, such as GERTIE THE DINOSAUR and THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA, but the draftsmanship and execution of these remnants make it, along with the Fleischer Superman cartoons, make it the most beautiful animation in the history of the art.