Not the usual Pixar quality and lacking in plot originality

Rating: 5/10 (22 July 2012)

While the main character is certainly a refreshing change from the usual princess, Brave was not the awesome movie I was expecting. Might my expectations have been a little too high? Maybe so, but after seeing Pixar's past work, I was definitely expecting better. The characters, location, and the flaming red hair were all great. The only problem was one of the biggest mistakes you can make when writing a story: using an unoriginal story. It was predictable after a certain point in the movie, and I felt like I was watching a Disney channel episode because I thought to myself, "Oh, obviously she's going to turn back into a human, and then they'll live happily ever after." There weren't a lot of twists after the halfway mark, and I was shaking my head towards the end. People may love it, but I would have loved it a lot more if they had worked harder on the plot.