Just what you expect from Pixar: fun and soulful material

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2012)

I'm pretty sure you have seen already the first teaser trailer for Pixar's 2013 project MONSTERS UNIVERSITY. Pixar knows everyone will get to see many times stuff about their movies long before the actual release; I'm not sure how many times I got to see the BRAVE trailer but it even was present in the DVD of CARS 2. So thanks to the trailers and the many newspaper articles I got to see I thought I knew what BRAVE was all about. And the thing is Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman and Steve Purcell (all doing their very first Pixar feature film) gave me just what I expected: the hugely enjoyable -and visually fantastic- tale of a not very common princess, whose interests go way beyond the traditions of the kingdom (she basically needs to become a -lovely- *princess* and getting an arranged marriage is a big step for that). But actually that "I got what I expected" thing goes only for the first part of the film. I really appreciate and love when a film totally surprises me (in a good way, certainly), and BRAVE did exactly that since Pixar didn't give almost anything away with the trailers. What we have is a movement that makes the film more marvelous and that, I dare to say, will alone turn some people off. But it's pure comedy gold - humor based on the classic behavior of a mother. The core of the film's themes is parenting, and you can relate to a lot of things. For instance the stuff with the father (the king, who is one of those that will "fight a bear with bare hands" – I recalled the men from HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON thanks to the king and his pals) being totally rude and everything with his friends until his wife says *no more*! Who can't relate with that? BRAVE is exactly what you expect from Pixar: fun, soulful material, with memorable characters (like the hilarious almost-ignored-by-everybody redheaded triplets!). Go see it on the big screen!
*Watched it on 20 July, 2012