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Overall rating
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Great Movie--Go See It!
PostedJuly 2, 2012
Rhysdux
from West Hartford, CT, USA
Age:45 to 54
Gender:Female
Goes to the movies:few times per year
Dialogue
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5
Special Effects
5
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5
Art Direction
5
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Acting
4
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5
Story
4
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5
Camerawork
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5
This is a wonderful movie. It's not the movie that I expected, based on the trailers, but it's a great movie about a mother and a daughter. Merida (the daughter) and Elinor (the mother) couldn't be more different. Merida is fierce and stubborn and very much her father's daughter, testing her strength and courage in feats of uncommon bravery; Elinor is the poised, elegant queen who can stop a quarrel with a glance and a word. They're both strong women, but in very different ways. Consequently, they don't always understand each other. And Elinor's efforts to train Merida for her future position as queen, which Merida sees as an attempt to turn her into a copy of Elinor herself, only exacerbate the situation.
Things come to a head when Elinor tries to arrange Merida's betrothal; by clan law, she has to marry the eldest son of one of the leaders of the other three clans. Merida's protests and attempts to find a loophole only make things worse, and after a terrible argument, Merida flees the castle, only to stumble on the cottage of a witch (who is rather like the female version of Billy Crystal in The Princess Bride). Merida begs the witch for a spell to change her mother...only to learn too late that she should have been more specific. The rest of the movie focuses on change, physical, mental and emotional; how fear and the refusal to listen can block change and can have deadly consequences; and on the notion that if you want to change your fate, you might have to change yourself as well.
The animation is gorgeous; the landscape actually looks like part s of Scotland that are familiar to me. Castle Dunbloch bears a strong resemblance to Bothwell Castle in Lanarkshire. Angus, Merida's horse is a Clydesdale--the modern horse closest to the massive warhorses of the Middle Ages, bred for size and strength so that they could carry men in heavy armor. Mention must be made, too, of Mor'du, the ten-foot-tall demon bear with fiery red eyes. He radiates menace. And the climatic battle scene with him is awesome.
Go see this movie. Go see it NOW.
Pros well paced, great story, great actors, gorgeous animation
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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