So.....Brave, eh?

[JBK405]

Very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, good.

Any questions?

[Kevin T Brown]

Yeah, but did you like it?

[bert]

Too many little kids in line for us to see it today.

I notice it's rated PG. . are those parents regretting taking their kids?

[JBK405]

I doubt it. There's some scenes of intense action, but nothing that I feel would be inappropriate (Although I did hear one little kid go "Holy shit!" so make of that what you will).

[JBK405]

For a more thorough reivew...

There were flaws in the movie, to be sure. The moral does not hold up under even minor scrutiny because, despite an explicit statement of what the moral is, it didn't actually happen that way. Mother and daughter say that they have both learned and changed, except Merida didn't change. Or rather, she was willing to, but then her mother said not to worry about it. So, in the end, Merida got exactly what she wanted right from the start. That's not bad, I'm not saying Merida should have changed or that she was being unreasonable (Frak no. She wanted to live her own life and I raised my fist in support right from the start), just that there was no sacrifice on her part in this story which supposedly has a moral about people learning to compromise and understand the other viewpoints.

However, even with that apparently missing lesson, the movie was pehnominal The CGI was beautiful (There were times when Merida's hair looked real. I mean real real. Not all the time, but a few scenes where it just popped) and the dialogue was hilarious (Albeit a wee bit Scottish, which was, I suppose, the point). The actions scenes were intense and I loved seeing Merida kicking ass. I also loved how (relatively) little ass she kicked. Despite how awesome she is she's a teenager who isn't out looking for blood, so they put her into scenes where she needed to be physical, but she's also not waging a war or anything, so they didn't oversell it. The brothers were adorable little devil children and Merida's parents were great (What a jolly fat king he was, and she was the consumate quiet, controlled queen).

The movie was great, with beautiful imagery and great characters. I recommend seeing it, and enjoying it, and make sure all your little girl cousins and boy cousins go see it, because (As we say so often on this board) both genders can enjoy kickass girls being kickass.

[Shurato2099]

We'll find out on Monday one way or the other! Me, visiting friends and a whole passel of kids.

[Personamanx]

Seeing it next week. It will be good. How good is the only question.

[Thequeerjock]

I liked it. I saw a lot of mediocre review but it was better than I expected. I think a lot of people were just expecting something more outside the box.

[MacQuarrie]

Merida does have a change of heart; she doesn't change her mind about what she wants, but she does regret how she tried to get it, and does come to appreciate what her mother tried to teach her, and to understand her mother, and more importantly, to trust her and to know that mom ultimately does want what's best for her. They disagree on what that is at first.

[michealdark]

Do you think, even with I hear some scenes of Merida still following some traditional women's roles, it's an empowering movie for young women?