My wife and I went with some friends to see Pixar’s Brave
last night.
Not to knock the movie, because there are lots of reasons to
see it and ultimately we recommend that you do, but the best part of the whole
thing was the animated short that preceded the actual movie. What can I say? I
still have the attention span of a six-year old. And any animation that can
adequately tell a complete story without a single word of dialog is fantastic
in my book. It’s called La Luna and it tells a heart-warming story about a
young boy on his first day on a very unique job that is being passed down from
grandfather to father to him. You have to use your imagination (as Pixar is so
good at doing) to follow what’s happening, but it’s fun and it’s interesting
and extremely cute. So yeah. Go see that.
And go see Brave too. But be warned, as my neighbor pointed
out to us, “You need to be brave to see Brave.” It’s scary. Like more than
Ursula in Little Mermaid Scary. It’s legitimately scary. There’s a recurring
theme of bears throughout the movie, and as one accustomed to hanging out withand around bears, I’m not too scared of them as a whole, but the way they
depict one of the bears and a few of the scenes are so intense that it’s
actually pretty dang scary.
My wife thought, and I agree, that it’s more scary and
intense than it is funny and cute (which is what we were going for – since
that’s what we expect from Pixar). But yeah, Merida is a great heroine. She’s as fun and
rebellious as you would expect from an adolescent princess. Her
shortsightedness (never trust anybody willing to grant you wishes!! I hope all
of you readers know this by now. If not, here are some more examples: Arial in
Little Mermaid. The Mad Hatter and
the King in Once Upon a Time. Jafar in Aladdin) and stubborn pride messes everything up, and then she needs to
fix it all before it becomes permanent.
The story is a little crazy – as much as I don’t need my
cartoons to be realistic by any means, this one is out there. I love the wisps
though. And I really wish they were in real life too. I would definitely
blindly follow those into a dark forest.
The little brothers are great: predictably mischievous in
all the right ways. The mom is just like your mom. So you’ll like her. And the
dad is as loud and boisterous as you would hope a big jolly one-legged warrior
would be.
Overall, it’s good. Worth seeing but probably not buying.
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