Brave - 6/10
A strong opening twenty minutes quickly fades into a tepid and uninspiring Disney-princess tale with a largely vacuous plot that simply fails to deliver the intelligence and complexity you'd expect from a Pixar film. Early promises of strong, conflicting characters are quickly forgotten in favour of a caricature of a well-worn conceit and a moralising tale about listening to your parents. Heavy-handed mashes of gaelic culture fail to create something authentic, and generic fantasy tropes quickly grate. A surprising and frequent disparity in rendering styles show us photorealistic celtic landscapes, but a lead character whose face contains an unusual jellyfish like softness makes it wholly more difficult to graps.
This is not the Pixar film you have been waiting for.
A strong opening twenty minutes quickly fades into a tepid and uninspiring Disney-princess tale with a largely vacuous plot that simply fails to deliver the intelligence and complexity you'd expect from a Pixar film. Early promises of strong, conflicting characters are quickly forgotten in favour of a caricature of a well-worn conceit and a moralising tale about listening to your parents. Heavy-handed mashes of gaelic culture fail to create something authentic, and generic fantasy tropes quickly grate. A surprising and frequent disparity in rendering styles show us photorealistic celtic landscapes, but a lead character whose face contains an unusual jellyfish like softness makes it wholly more difficult to graps.
This is not the Pixar film you have been waiting for.