Brave

[gwendally]

I feel so unsatisfied after seeing Brave.  I wanted it to be such a bigger story than it was.  I expected a "coming of age" story, but instead I got one about how a little girl successfully held onto her mommy-focused childhood despite pressure to grow up.  Mothers everywhere will leave holding their six year old's hand saying "See, I'll *ALWAYS*

Comments

[mybonnykate]

IIRC Tangled got all sorts of flack for being perceived as sending the opposite message -- don't listen to your mother, strict parents don't really love you, whirlwind romance over family, etc. Can't win!

I haven't seen Brave, but I would like to register my support for a fashion trend that is, essentially, my bedhead. :D

[_luaineach]

We felt really dissapointed in it, too. I don't know what I was expecting it to be ... more battling? more adventure? more bravery? ... more SOMETHING, and it wasn't it. We also would have been fine with the evil bear turning into who she falls madly into insta-love with. That would have made sense and been a satisfying ending. As it was, Jet left saying "she knows she is going to be QUEEN, right? And needs to get married at some point? And has responsibilities?" and we briefly discussed Elizabeth I because she managed to escape the marriage thing, but she indeed lost the running around like a wild thing aspect and then we...

You get the point. It was unanimously voted that we should have seen Mirror, Mirror for a third time instead.

[gwendally]

It was a lovely fantasy that Mommy could abandon her duties and ignore the three younger brothers to go play with her firstborn. I feel the age range for this movie topped off around the age of 8.

Did you notice how the "boys" had no speaking rolls and were portrayed as being identical and infantile? Yet they were never identified as triplets - which would have been bizarre. More likely that was just her perception of the three annoyances that distracted her Mommy from her and were ages 6, 8 and 10.

[allyphoe]

Alex was meh about the moral of, "your mom was right, after all."

I was really astonished that the evil bear didn't turn into a human again. It seemed to be the logical outcome.

[ssterikoff]

Thanks for the review! My main message to my children is that they will grow up in to self-sufficient human beings and have lots of fun being grown ups.

Pooh. I saw the picture of the girl with the bow and arrow and was thinking this would be a fun movie to take Jessica to. I guess we'll wait and see Ice Age: Continental Drift instead.

[tobor_1138]

Pixar should go back to their roots.

http://youtu.be/T5seU-5U0ms