Brave Movie Reviews

What's so brave about Brave? The very Princess in question, Merida ( Kelly Macdonald), who does not believe in playing by the rules come what may. So much so, she wants a bow and arrow on her birthday unlike the princess next door. In fact, she surely is in for a big fan following amongst rebellious teens this weekend. Why? She hates perfection. She hates rules and regulations. And she hates being told what to do and not to do. For her, life is all about being free

The riotous mass of bouncy curls that crowns Merida, the free-to-be-me heroine of the new Pixar movie Brave, is a marvel of computer imagineering. A rich orange-red, Merida’s hair doesn’t so much frame her pale, creamy face as incessantly threaten to engulf it. It makes Merida look like a hothead, a rebel, the little princess who wouldn’t and didn’t. Then again, Rapunzel has a supernice head of hair too. From her wild and woolly locks to her Clydesdale

With an ancient tradition of the Scottish kingdom of DunBroch demanding her betrothal to one of her father’s allies unlikely to be overturned, what’s a princess (Macdonald) to do?Walk her way down the aisle like a lamb to the slaughter? Not this princess! She would sooner beseech a witch to produce a spell to change her mother’s mind. In fact, this is exactly what princess Merida does when she mysteriously encounters a cackling crone in her cabin in the woods

The problem with Pixar is that one expects every film of theirs to be groundbreaking, and while their latest Brave fails to be one, it’s still a charming and entertaining little story. Forgoing originality, Pixar this time around delivers a mild throwback to the Disney films of the 80’s, with eye-poppingly gorgeous, sweeping Scottish locales and a protagonist as likable as the Scottish brogue. Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman and Steve Purcell, Brave is a cute little film

The best Pixar films – Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Wall-E, Up, and the Toy Story trilogy – all have one thing in common: they appeal as much to adults as they do to kids. The studio’s latest film 'Brave', however, can be safely described as a children’s movie. After all, the animation is gorgeous but the humor is mostly slapstick, and the message is hammered into our heads repeatedly. Plus, the film’s premise – of a feisty princess who must undo

Despite an insanely well-rendered crop of red-ringletted hair, Brave is a cute film that makes all the right noises. But just that many, mind you. Missing is the sense of joyous fulfilment -- and handkerchief-need -- brought on usually by Pixar films, as is the complexity in character. Brave is essentially Freaky Friday pretending to be Mulan: and both those Disney productions were decidedly more entertaining. The tale of a rebellious princess who likes bows