Brave is a movie to endure
Movie review by Ricardo Gabbert Eng. 100 Amy Bolaski
Disney and Pixar. Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman. Written by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell and Irene Mecchi. Voice starring Kelly MacDonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters.
Parents and baby sitters all over grab your cup of coffee or red bulls and prepare to get stuck in a mundane, jaded repetition of a fairy tale or fable once told by parents and grandparents in order to instill a sense of discipline or life lessons to their offspring. Brave is a film that looks good on the outside but comes to be quite a bore on the inside (Like a very bad date you ended up in.) makes a mere visit for a film make it feel like a mere visit for a root canal at the dentist. The movie starts with a misleading introduction called La Luna in which some kid is climbing the latter to the moon while being coached by some grumpy shaggy looking Italian men, one old one older and communicate with grunts and grumps making you question and ponder for a minute if these voices are trying to communicate to cavemen. After the misleading array of a mosaic display of stars, star fish looking stars and a peaceful sea that never moves the real movie starts. This movie is a conglomeration of fables, history, and National Geographic, not to mention Sesame Street to teach importants lessons. Kelly MacDonald gives the rich Irish accent to the character of the film that plays a troubled princess who rebels against her mother for wanting to teach her the proper way of life (This is an intimate, domestic matter to some and many.) The other characters in the movie who play the King and Queen , Connolly-Thompson do a good job talking like the real life parents that most have grown up to by adhering advice and life lessons once experienced by trial and error, they do an interesting change of tone when the situation goes from family orientated problems to life threatening problems. The graphics were awesome in the film since Pixar redid their graphic system for the first time in twenty five years showing the russling, glistening leaves and trees and grass emphasizing on the greenery of Europe and it's surrounding countries. The story however does not give the ground breaking feel and excitement that Pixar is known for, instead it delivers more of a life lesson on how to forgive and not hold grudges, especially with your mother who is the one that loves you no matter the circumstance. The battle scenes were not to violent as it is a Disney move but the actions of the bear in the movie voiced by grunts shows unique characteristics of bears in real life, with deep base rumbling surround sounds make a bare scream a really chilling one but the grayness of the whole movie grounds you to reality and makes you look at your watch or phone text more often. This film is good for kids but some extra patience as well as entertainment is highly advised.