Boring

Rating: 3/10 (3 July 2016)

I originally was put off watching this film because right from the trailer, I thought it looked boring but today I decided to watch it because I was bored and couldn't think of anything else to watch. Anyway, I ended up watching the whole movie, I decided maybe I would be surprised since it is Pixar but no, it was much worse than I had perceived it to be.
First, without going into plot or characters, I thought the music choices were terrible, didn't really give a vibe to the time period or give dimension.
The characters didn't have much development, like Merida didn't really change, maybe matured a little bit but I don't feel this film had any real hurdles or consequences. The mother was too typical and "saw the light" too typically too, the bear plot just seemed random and stupid. The father was typical and bland, his hate for bears was like the father who hated dragons in How to Train Your Dragon (which now also reminds me a lot of this, the male character not acting how he's meant to etc.). The father stayed the same. The triplets had no reason to be there. Her suitors had no real personalities, we didn't really see much about them and they were all typical.
Story has been done many times and if I recall that TV show about the red head (hair was also curly) who lived in a castle who wanted to be a knight (Jane and the Dragon), I thought it would be more like that but it seemed the writers wanted to chuck in Brother Bear to spice things up. I also get that Pixar likes to cater to children and adults but I thought some of the jokes were a bit too crude for a children's film or made too obvious.
So bland Pixar, I can't believe it took multiple writers and multiple rewrites to come up with this dribble.