Tied with Cars 2 for me as my least favorite Pixar film

Rating: 5/10 (11 April 2020)

Beautifully animated, but incredibly tedious, Brave strives to be a valuable animated film, but instead ends up losing to mediocrity in the battle against its own potentially interesting concepts. The film is quite dull at times, scavenging through many interesting ideas, but never developing them to the heights they could have, and instead, the film becomes increasingly predictable throughout its course. The story has been done before, in many ways, and the humor at times can vary from amusing, to overly-goofy. The pacing starts quite well, but about the time the climax of the film hits, it seems to go downhill from there. Brave does contain some sweet moments, but seems to try too hard to feel important in an overcrowded field of animated films and companies producing them. In the end, Brave can be funny and sweet at times, but doesn't make use of its potential in the way it could have. It can be incredibly tedious, and painfully dull, but all together, not a total drag.
My Rating: 5/10