Impressions of "Brave", expect rantings about the name later
The Little Mermaid meets Brother Bear. It wasn't Pixar's best but I enjoyed it approximately ten times more than WALL-E.
Good:
- Asterix
- Brother Bear
- DID SOMEONE ELSE THAN STUDIO GHIBLI JUST MAKE A FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO HAS NO LOVE INTEREST
- A film about a woman who has a mother, too?
- The Cursed Monster Bear is really, really scary
- The witch not being an evil person who screws up the hero's life for evil purposes
- I've been longing for a princess film about a princess who has to clean up a mess she got into on her own rather than being the victim of evil people's evil plans for some three or four years now. There was technically one before this, but it's kind of live action and kind of meh and kind of scarcely available in English.
Bad:
- Asterix = there is not one single male character in the film that we're supposed to take seriously
- Could have toned down the Brother Bear in patches
- In a fine combination of both the above: women are not funny and if they are, it's because they're either 1) hideously deformed or 2) an animal. Well, that's part of the Asterix deal, I suppose. Or quite possibly just Pixar's treatment of secondary characters in general, not that I'd know since the last Pixar film I saw more than once was Monsters Inc.
- The story, bless its feminine soul, never got around to making it clear what the theme was supposed to be.
Good:
- Asterix
- Brother Bear
- DID SOMEONE ELSE THAN STUDIO GHIBLI JUST MAKE A FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO HAS NO LOVE INTEREST
- A film about a woman who has a mother, too?
- The Cursed Monster Bear is really, really scary
- The witch not being an evil person who screws up the hero's life for evil purposes
- I've been longing for a princess film about a princess who has to clean up a mess she got into on her own rather than being the victim of evil people's evil plans for some three or four years now. There was technically one before this, but it's kind of live action and kind of meh and kind of scarcely available in English.
Bad:
- Asterix = there is not one single male character in the film that we're supposed to take seriously
- Could have toned down the Brother Bear in patches
- In a fine combination of both the above: women are not funny and if they are, it's because they're either 1) hideously deformed or 2) an animal. Well, that's part of the Asterix deal, I suppose. Or quite possibly just Pixar's treatment of secondary characters in general, not that I'd know since the last Pixar film I saw more than once was Monsters Inc.
- The story, bless its feminine soul, never got around to making it clear what the theme was supposed to be.