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Overall rating
2
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5
Eager to please, but falls far short
PostedJune 24, 2012
dominoparker
from Los Angeles, CA, USA
Age:25 to 34
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Dialogue
1
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5
Special Effects
3
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5
Art Direction
4
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5
Acting
2
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5
Story
1
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5
Camerawork
2
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5
Brave is a movie that seems in such a hurry to please it's audience that it doesn't take any time to build it's overall mood. The problems with this film are myriad. The comedy continually relies on cliched jokes that seem typical of children's films, but not of the Pixar standard. Gone is the inventiveness of films like The Incredibles and Up. The world here doesn't feel as lived in as their previous efforts. The rules of the magic that governs the main thrust of the story feels very tacked on and like it belongs maybe in another film. The biggest sin here is the ham-handedness with which the central relationships are handled. Everyone's motivations seem so one note and uncomplicated. The characters have not been properly drawn out by the storytellers and as a result peoples motivations boil down to "I don't want to do it" and "You have to because it's tradition". If you haven't seen those same robotic and boring motivations used in so many love stories since the beginning of time then you haven't been paying attention. And this is coming from a movie that is apparently priding itself on breaking tradition.
Where this film does succeed is in the small moments when it takes it's time and builds up to a proper payoff. It actually creates some genuine scares and some real heart pumping action from time to time. It also manages to mine some real tender emotion every now and again which will sustain anyone bothered by the aforementioned problems. There seems to have been so much potential in this world that was created that one wishes maybe one or two more revisions had been undertaken by the Pixar crew. Who knows, maybe they'll mine the best parts of the story for the sequel.
Where this film does succeed is in the small moments when it takes it's time and builds up to a proper payoff. It actually creates some genuine scares and some real heart pumping action from time to time. It also manages to mine some real tender emotion every now and again which will sustain anyone bothered by the aforementioned problems. There seems to have been so much potential in this world that was created that one wishes maybe one or two more revisions had been undertaken by the Pixar crew. Who knows, maybe they'll mine the best parts of the story for the sequel.
Pros builds good moments, gorgeous hair
Cons generally poor dialogue, cliched, poor character motivations, poor comedy
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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