[Gemini Cricket]

I saw "Brave" last weekend and I guess I was underwhelmed by it. I loved certain moments in the film but didn't love it overall.

Random thoughts:

Spoiler:

As mentioned, I love that the film broke away from the whole "a prince saves the day" ending.

Meridia was a strong heroine.

I was rather confused if the tapestry had anything to do with breaking the spell at all. (It did come in handy, tho.) If it didn't, what was the purpose of the whole "Meridia has to sew to save the day" scene then?

Pixar keeping the whole bear part of the story a secret was pretty cool, tho. Although, I noticed today on their Facebook page they actually showed a picture of the three bear princes and captioned it "do these bears look familiar?" or something like that. I also saw the bears at Meridia's meet and greet at DL before the movie came out.

I didn't not spot the Pizza Planet truck but found out where it was later. Very cool.

The bear part reminded me of "Brother Bear".

It seems the queen became more feminine once she became a bear (that is until the whole Jekyll and Hyde thing kicked in). It would have been nice if the some of queen's movements/habits were repeated by her in bear form.

I put "Brave" low on the list of Pixar films with "Cars" and "A Bug's Life". I dunno, maybe the film needed more heart or more Pixarishness.