Disney Pixar's Brave

So, basically, in the past couple of weeks, I went to the cinema/movie theatre a couple of times. One time was because, hey, you know, it's Batman, and I ended up watching it twice for another reason that I'm not obliged to say here lol. Then I went to go and see Disney's Brave a week later, because my mother and little sister were going to go and watch it after we'd been shopping together, so I thought I'd tag along with them.

I know they're different genres, but I noticed a vast difference in quality between the two movies, but here's two separate reviews on my thoughts on the two movies.

Disney Pixar's Brave

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I have been a fan of Pixar's work for a long long time now, since the era of Toy Story and Monster's Inc etc, with UP being high on my list as being my third favourite film ever. So I had high expectations for Brave because they clearly didn't put much effort into Cars 2, mostly for the fact that Cars was the movie they made a sequel for out of all the good Pixar films out there ¬_¬
So I thought that more work would have gone into Brave. The truth is? It didn't.

I'm not the age you'd expect to be someone who watches Disney films, but Disney was my childhood, and I came into this movie with an unbiased attitude because Pixar seemed to still hold on to that Disney "magic" long after the original company sold out to real-life canned laughter sitcoms like Good Luck Charlie or some weird stuff like that. Point is, Disney has turned what it was, i.e. family animation with delightful characters: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._poster_toon.jpg/200px-Recess_poster_toon.jpg to this: http://roashina.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/wizards-of-waverly-place-001.jpg

So I was let down when Pixar didn't put much into this film. Let me explain, first off, the animation isn't exactly spectacular. I watched the movie in 3D in the best quality seating and nothing ever jumped out at me, even with my tested proven perfect vision. The only thing that worked was the logo at the start by the company who provided the glasses that tests the 3D effect, the rest of the movie had literally nothing. And talk about using the same backgrounds over and over. All the film is, is circling through like, three locations, the castle, the stone circle, and the deep forest. I mean talk about lazy, the deep forest is dark and never interesting to look at. However the main character just goes back and forth between these sole settings.

And there's another problem, the main character is terrible. Not only is she not developed properly, (hell I don't even think they say her real name!) but her voice actress is just so whiny and screechy all the time. Sure, you've got an almost racist Scottish accent down, well done, but the character doesn't have to scream her lines!

Spoiler: To not give the story away not like you're missing much lol

She turns her mother into a bear. She goes to a witch, a witch of all people, a person known for horrible and untrustworthy spells, and asks her to change her mother. Dear. God. No-one is that naive, that's just being straight up evil to her mother. I know the mum probably had sand somewhere where the sun don't shine, but there was no need for the protagonist to be that cruel. The first quarter or so of the film before those games, she's fine, but after then, I started to despise her. Not because she's ginger lol. I'm not even going to get started on how she gets what she wants at the end just by crying which makes everything magically better. My god Disney. Why.

If all this wasn't already enough, the storyline is all over the place. Hell, there's like, 6 different storylines at once which are never fully developed and explained. The main story doesn't kick in until about halfway through the film. I'm not even joking. Before then you have a confusing opening which would scare any little children going to see the "magic" of Disney on the big screen, then it suddenly switches to a ton more years later with absolute gallons of exposition being narrated. The three twins you see in the advertisements are better developed in the adverts than in the film. They literally get a 5 second explanation as to who they are and what they do. So it moves on to the three princes competing for the protagonist's hand in marriage in a kind of highland games, and she competes herself to ensure her freedom. And that's what should have been stretched out into a storyline. Because it was so rapidly explained in the first place. After this point it goes to hell with one storyline about the princes, one about the clans, one about the mother being a bear, one about this other kingdom, one about this other guy who became a bear and went nuts or something, one about the mother possibly becoming a bear forever, one about the twins becoming little bears, one about the father hunting this othe- you can just tell from all this that it's a mess. None are ever fully explained, they just piled a load of stories together and hoped they stuck. It hardly ever links back to Scottish mythology too. They could have done this so much better.

One redeeming point is the humour. I like the clans, they're quite funny, and the father is too. The twins are just the typical annoying brats with potty humour and I hate that. But there's some good stuff like the relations between the clan leaders, possibly creating the funniest moment I have ever seen in Pixar history. And the father's always good for a laugh, the way his wife's more of a king than he is, and just how he basically fumbles almost everything. But that's nowhere near enough to save the film for me. I feel sorry for the kids who see this sort of stuff and then think Disney is great because of it. If they watched the oldies their minds would be blown, and that should be the opposite way around.

TL;DR: I didn't like this film. It could have been so much better with a little bit of effort.