Though the animation didn't exactly make leaps and bounds forward in comparison to anything else that's come out in the past couple of years, it was still most certainly impressive. On a less incestuous note though, stand up comic/actor Billy Connolly as Meridia's father King Fergus is simply brilliant, and probably the highest point of the whole film. Just saying, honestly, that's how the piece feels as it plays out. Now, I'm sure it wasn't intentional, but, I must say, the main character Merida. I at first simply felt it was my warped interpretation, but every person whom I've spoken to drew the same conclusion, so perhaps not. All that said and done however, there was one rather unfortunate side-effect of all this. Snow White, Belle, etc.) or in the case of the Little Mermaid in which she is willing to almost literally walk on broken glass for a man simply because he's pretty. ?This movie falls more into the category of 'Entertaining, acceptable, cute' instead of the higher echelons some of the studio's past work has earned it.īrave attempts to take the 'Disney Princess' line away from its predecessors in which princesses are only good for getting themselves into trouble so that men can rescue them (ie. Though highly enjoyable, Brave was simply not up to the standard brought forth by the likes of the Toy Story trilogy, Up or Monsters Inc. Perhaps Pixar's well deserved success is its pitfall here. The film in all was a relatively decent venture. The following is a long-form review that I originally wrote in 2012.

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