For Brave film viewers only

Rating: 5/10 (24 August 2016)

After the let-down that was Cars 2, I had hopes that Brave could return vitality to Pixar that they had lost post-Toy Story 3. After a viewing, though, I believe I might have raised my hopes a tad too high, as it happened to be another one of those movies that would be average for a typical animation studio but deleterious for Pixar. As with any Pixar movie, I enjoyed the animation and the attempts to make the film seem realistic, such as the lighting of backgrounds. The humor and action are highly sporadic, with most attempts not hitting the intended mark or just dragging the plot on, especially in the action scenes when an action that would solve the conflict at that period was possible yet there is a delay of several seconds before characters actually do so. The messages were nice, such as to not be confrontational for selfish reasons (it could lead to the doom of not just oneself). The characters seem to take a lot of inspiration to the point of copying from other Disney works, especially with Merida being a princess who desires more than to be confined to her family (where have we seen something like that before?). The title, I chose because if you have no fear to see any animated movies, then it might be worth your time. But with its mixture of unoriginal characters and fragile story with dreamy animation and good messages, I cannot recommend it nor not recommend it to the average film-goer.