I wasn't surprised considering the film was made by Dreamworks. It was probably intentional on their part to make Spirit look more sophisticated. If you consider the other 2D films were darker in tone and more adult appealling (Prince of Egypt, Road to El Dorado, Sinbad). They figure that by not making the animals talk they could grab more adult fans.
I'm not bothered after seeing the final result. Talking animal movies these days have been pretty bad. I think they did the right thing here. If they made the animals talk then they might as well have made it an adult comedy or whatnot.
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