Brave (2012)

Best movie of this year hands down!

To me, this movie is perfection.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The graphics is great on yet another Disney princess film. The film starts out with some deep themes. Mom attempts to mold Merida into her expectations of her being a princess. Merida is daddy's girl and a tomboy. When it comes times for suitors, the 15 year old rebels against her mother to win her freedom to choose her own life. This was all great as the classic female roles are being broken, a reflection of today's world. I was really enjoying the film.After this great start the film digresses into magic and witchcraft. Now I have nothing against either one, it is just at this point the film loses track of the theme and becomes needlessly silly and moves off into a new direction and creates a kids version of "The Monkey's Paw" i.e. be careful what you wish for. The preteen kids will enjoy it, I can't imagine adults getting too excited.

I remember seeing this movie back in 2012 and enjoying all the fantastic scenery as well as the Scottish themes. It's not the best animated film I've seen but it's a nice runner-up to my favorites. While watching the movie, I was reminded of two previous Disney films. One was Freaky Friday and the other was 1991's Beauty and the Beast (but no romance!). I don't remember too much about the film, considering I've only seen it once, but it's one of the less cliched Disney princess movies. Plus, the heroine is an archer with a brave heart (no pun intended towards the Mel Gibson movie). There are some darker themes in this Pixar outing so it might not be good for very young children, but it would be interesting for teens and twentyish adults, or anyone who wants to see a Scottish setting. This movie really broke tradition for Pixar. And it worked.

When I saw this movie in theaters, I thought that it was awesome. It is not. Animation - The animation in this movie is absolutely fantastic. Characters - The voice acting is pretty good in this movie. The characters are kind of boring. There aren't really any character arcs. Plot - There is potential in this movie. The beginning of this movie sets up an interesting character, but then the rest of the movie is just her having to clean up a dumb mess. There are a lot of plot holes and inconsistencies in this movie.Comedy - This humor in this movie is pretty lame. I understand that this is a children's movie, but still. Overall this movie has potential to be a good movie but it is a poorly executed waste of fantastic animation.

I finally watched the movie yesterday and i came on here to add it to my lists only to find out that this movie is pretty hated and now i'm confused. I didn't have any expectations, at first i thought that it was gonna be another boring cartoon but i was pleasantly surprised.Animation: Everything looked pretty, even her hair, but i thought that she wasn't created with much details other than that (or at least my eyes were not drawn to them!); the landscapes were beautiful and +1000 points for the scene were she shoots the arrow because it was really well done.Plot: I loved the plot because it wasn't about her finding the love of her life and them marring and living together forever, the main point was family instead. It contained some clichés, true, but i enjoyed it nonetheless.In the end, for me, this movie wasn't as bad as people make it to be; I've had red haired kids and friends my age tell me how happy they were to finally feel included in a cartoon and i felt SO happy for them. I think that this movie was the start of a different generation of princesses and i'm totally okay with it; The stories may be full of clichés but isn't it better to have strong and independent princesses more than docile princesses that just need a prince to live better?