Mediocre 'Ferdinand' Will Have Bored Parents Seeing Red
Munro Leaf's classic children story about a pacifist bull becomes a formulaic animated film indistinguishable from scores of others.
For a simple children's story about a pacifist bull in Spain who would rather smell the flowers than charge a matador, Munro Leaf's generated tremendous controversy, owing to its worldwide popularity and its date of publication, 1936, which found it caught in political crosswinds. It was banned in Franco's Spain. Hitler ordered it burned as "degenerate democratic propaganda" in Nazi Germany, though it was
