X___X This rain folks! It is no joke. Glad I am safe in my own home and not delivery pizzas last night. A word to ANYONE who thinks it is a good idea to order delivery in the rain. If you are going to ask someone to deliver you food when half the streets in town are flooded 1 whole dollar is not going to cut it. It wouldn’t cut it on a normal day but especially not on a day when people end up looking like drowned cats just running out to their car.
X__X Is this a short that didn't make it into the movie?!
So while I think how many people are having slightly damped vacations in Orlando I thought OH they can still do something Disney like this week and stay dry. Well as dry as one can get dodging rain drops to get to the theater. Brave the movie came out last Friday and seems to be a hit. Come read my VERY spoilery review on the newest Disney Princess to hit the big screens.
Sometimes people go to movies based on reviews they have read online. Well if one read some of the reviews for Brave they might choose to see something else. I read the reviews after seeing the movie and a lot of them seem….well unfair. See this is technically a Pixar film and not a traditional Disney film. Pixar and Disney work together but diehard fans like to make the distinction. Disney makes happy go lucky musicals with Disney princesses while Pixar has been known for making movies that look like they are for kids but can be for adults too. Movies like Up and Toy Story 3. Movies for all, way less singing, and deep meanings wrapped up into a cartoon.
So now that Pixar has made their first Princess movie some are calling foul. Like somehow all those classic Disney films can never compare to what Pixar has done. I don’t know, it just seems insulting, for people to say Pixar is above THOSE movies. THOSE movies which I love and have magical memories about. I don’t know what people are expecting. Not sure I am making a lot of sense either. Like some people saw Princess and decided it wasn’t up to par with Pixar standards.
The way I saw it Pixar might have made the Princess genre…better? Here come the spoilers: The Princess Merida does not end up with anyone! In fact she doesn’t rely on a man at all in the entire movie. The men take a back seat, almost a comical second thought with Merida and her mother being main characters. The only love mentioned in the movie is that of family love. So while some movies like Tangled and Mulan have the Princess (like) character saving their man in the end this takes the Princess story to another level. So isn’t that a positive thing that Pixar has done? Shown young girls they don’t need to settle in the end, that they can make their own decisions and don’t have to be paired up with some man?
Don't worry I got this!
Oh yes folks. The advertisement for this movie has been…slightly off. I thought it was going to be the standard girl makes a bad wish and has to set off on a journey to fix her mistake. This magical potion that Merida gets DOES change her fate….by turning her mother (and her brothers later) into a bear. So all this change your fate stuff was really Merida spending most of the film trying to change her mother back, not going on an epic quest alone. I mean obviously had the previews shown that it would have been very spoilery. I just wasn’t expecting a mother/daughter film about bonding and what not. Which is another point for Pixar as many mothers (or mother like figures) are either absent, dead, or evil in Disney films thus the Princess has to go it alone or find that Prince.
So that would be a no on the romance?
Of course since I am a brainwashed Disney girl I thought that the other bear in the movie was going to turn out to be the Prince that Merida was going to end up with. Because…her three other choices were obviously not….good. XD But then we find out that Prince is pretty old, crazy, and unsavable so Merida ends up alone YAY! Some people are criticizing the movie, saying that Merida will still have to end up with one of those losers and she only delayed her “fate”. Well I am not sure what movie they were watching but it appeared that Merida and her mother told the crowd that people were free to follow their hearts. Sure the 3 men were flirting with Merida near the end but I took that as she IS a catch but she can pick whoever she wants be it those men or some other people who…make more sense. XD
Dad pretending to be Merida was hilarious.
As I mentioned earlier the men in the movie really are there for comic relief. Which makes me a little sad as the three baby bears are being pushed left and right with merchandise. But given that the spell was supposed to change her mother Elinor it makes sense the boys took a back seat. But they did get a little annoying with their stupid antics. Horrible kids indeed. However the King was pretty likable. He let his daughter be who she truly was instead of being overbearing like…someone who got turned into a bear. But maybe next time the King can make a rope of their shirts, not their pants, and not destroy the entire palace fighting with people.
Don't mind my hair. XD
I think the very best part of this movie might have been Merida’s hair. But I think everyone who saw the previews could guess that. I love the movie Tangled but the hair was just…there. All the same length and dragged along. Merida’s hair really moved with her and was basically alive. It looked like real hair, not uniformed and perfect. But home girl probably needs a hair brush in any event.
If someone is put off by this movie because of the accents then let me tell you…it will be fine. There was one moment in the movie where I couldn’t understand what was being said but other than that it was fine. Well except for the one character who was not understandable on purpose. XD Which is ironic I suppose.
A lot of people are saying they didn’t like the witch in the movie…I thought she was hilarious. Again most witches in Disney movies are evil while fairies with magical powers are good. In this movie the witch was either a neutral character or a good person who didn’t mean any harm. It is obvious with her carving shop she is only capable of making bear potions so maybe Merida should have picked up on that tiny detail. XD And the witch did leave Merida the solution to fixing the potion so how can she be bad? The witch can stay Pixar!
Its amazing how with family you can be right and wrong at the same time!
One thing I really liked about this movie is that Merida wasn’t 100 percent in the right and Elinor wasn’t 100 percent in the wrong. Just like how normal mother/daughter relationships are. Merida deserves to have her freedom in marriage but maybe running your horse crazy through the street is uncalled for. And when someone spends YEARS making a family heirloom don’t destroy it. Elinor should have recognized who her daughter really was but given the time frame Elinor was really preparing her daughter for the best possible life. Boo on throwing the bow in the fire but cheers for the mother letting Merida decide her own future.
Most of the men....were special looking though.
Since this was a Pixar movie and not a Disney film there was no major singing scenes. And the cute sidekick was the mother who slowly was losing her mind inside of the bear. And the brothers I suppose. Oh and the horse. Which was huge. X___X Okay maybe there were a lot of cute animal sidekicks. It helped take away from the random naked butt scenes that took place throughout the movie.
Behold the scenery!!!!
What else to say in this super random review…It has been all over the place hasn’t it? Overall I think this is a great family movie but I don’t have kids so maybe I know nothing. I do know that some people said the fighting scenes scared their kids. I guess I could see that happening but overall everything seemed kid friendly to me, especially the part where everyone comes together at the end and hugs it out like a real family. The animation is gorgeous, there are twists on classic Disney concepts, and we finally get a Ginger Princess.
What about the poor boys who have to watch a movie about a girl?!?!?!
So for those who are poo pooing on this movie….BOO HOO! Pixar finally made a movie with a female protagonist after a million films with more of a male slant. Whatever shall we do? Oh take the whole family because the movie reaches all audiences despite it having a Princess at the helm? XD The brothers could have been less annoying and the archery could have been more prominently featured but overall this was a very solid movie. So if you haven’t seen it yet go out now!! Or whenever the rain stops. XD
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