No matter how old we all get, I think it's safe to say that you can enjoy a classic animated movie at any age. Finding Nemo? Perfection. Toy Story? Amazing. This weekend, Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar add another awesome flick to the mix with Brave, a film following Princess Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) as she defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. My favorite part? This is the first movie from Pixar that applauds the heroics of a female person for a change. Yes, please!
Directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman, Brave also features the talented voices of famed actors Emma Thompson, Craig Ferguson, and Billy Connolly among others. It seems like Brave has all the makings for an epic kid-friendly movie: A beautiful princess with hair for days, great graphics, and a fun storyline. But what do the critics think? Check out their Brave reviews, here:
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post:
Youngsters with a taste for adventure will no doubt overlook the movie's workmanlike outlines and applaud its spirited, self-reliant heroine, who proves to be as appealingly unruly as her tumble of Titian curls.
Claudia Puig, USA Today:
It's a lively, psychologically astute tale filled with humanity, wit and charming performances.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone:
OK, Brave isn't The Incredibles or Toy Story. So? It's still a rousing, gorgeously animated good time.
The good news is that the kids will probably love it, and the bad news is that parents will be disappointed if they're hoping for another Pixar groundbreaker.
Turns out to be much less about the qualities that mark a heroine built to interest a 21st-century audience of girls, boys, and accompanying adults, and much more about the complexities of mother-daughter relations.
I like it, and I can't get enough of those orange curls! Can I have some, please? Here's to hoping that Merida is one of many female heroins to come. Watch the Brave trailer, here:
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I'm not sure if we're going to make it to the theater while it's out. My daughter really wants to see it, as do I, but it's so expensive going to the theaters and we are hanging on to our money as we have our vacation to the coast and a couple white water rafting trips coming up. We'll see how things work out, maybe it will show up at the drive-in, which is a fraction of the cost of the walk-in theater.
we saw it this morning :) only 6 bucks a ticket for the non 3d ten am show :) (AMC), i really really loved this movie and my son loved it to he is three and now he wants to get a kilt and throw logs lol as he says
We took my 6 year old to see it on Friday. She loved it. I loved it. My hsuband loved it. It was too cute.
My daughter, son, and husband all loved it!
I love Pixar movies but was disappointed in this one. The whole bare butts and over-the-top cleavage scenes were very unclassy, and sort of stooped to a bathroom humor type level. It felt more Disney channel than Pixar.
I thought the archery thing was going to lead to an epic battle where she saves her country and is beloved by her kingdom, and it sort of fell flat. I so wanted to love this movie. Perhaps I expected too much. Maybe I was expecting Hermoine Granger.
It may not be a heroine story as this one is, but it certainly devolps strong, independant princesses through the movies. This wasn't the first "different" princess is all I'm saying.
the4mutts, she probably didn't mention Shrek because that was a Dreamworks animation and she only mentioned movies by Pixar/Disney. But I could be wrong and she just overlooked it because she is biased against ogres.
I don't pay much attention to which company works with eachother. I figured dreamworks worked with pixar because the animation was similar.
But biased against ogres works too