I've had a bad past two days...none of them related to my age milestone. Today, we went to see Brave in order to provide me with over 90 minutes of non-negative brooding. It completely succeeded on that front. Overall, I think Brave fell short a bit. Now...I am not a movie critic, but keep in mind that my blog title does purport that I can comment on anything so I am standing by that claim.
Maybe I am spoiled. I think Disney provides me with the best level of anthropomorphic entertainment anywhere around. The horse in Tangled? Brilliant! The chameleon in that movie as well...equally brilliant (I've seen that movie most recently so it is my best current example). So, when one of the characters Merida turns to when she needs to escape her constrained world is a horse, I expected some humanism in the horse. And when her mother turns into a bear, I also expect a bit more than what the movie delivered. I will grant that there were times when Pixar did a great job and recreating the mother and her mannerisms in the bear, but overall...it fell short for me. And then when Merida's brothers also turned into little bears...well...they looked like Children of the Corn freaky children with large heads and no emotions whatsoever to make me think they were human trapped in a bear body.
So...here is my synopsis. It is a good movie. Pixar rarely fails. What I think I am finding is that either Pixar knocks it out of the park or they fall short in that they don't seem to embrace many of the same features that brings pure Disney animation to life. As Paige said over a post-movie beer, "I think what I would tell someone asking me about the movie I would tell them that it will probably make you want to call your mother."
Still...it did the trick as far as giving me a much needed break...and sometimes that is all one really wants from a movie.
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