[innerSpaceman]

Yeah, I was pretty disappointed with Brave.

I don't see what the big deal is about a princess who's not rescued or subjugated by men. I mean, sure, Disney recently told another ancient tale that had a princess/prince thing - but Pixar's never done that, and this hardly seems a groundbreaking thing in Twenty Twelve.

I rather liked the low-key and sorta-surprise way the tale turned out to be. I didn't see any characters at the Disneyland Meet'n'Greet, so I wasn't spoiled and it's not at all the type of road I expected the story to go down.


So while that was a plus, and while it was a really cute story - it was also a bit of a let-down. Just a very low key thing that I somehow didn't feel suited a Pixar TM release.

There's nothing wrong with it ... it just didn't WOW me, and so I also have to group it with the lower rungs of Pixar films, the same ones Gemini Cricket listed above. And I agree with him totally - needed more heart or more Pixarishness (though I did tear up once).

Also ... I didn't really cotten to the main character. She was, to me, quite Meh. Though her hair is awesome.

And in that vein of uber-computer-rendering ... I really find insane levels of verisimilitude in most of the scenery and the horse, Angus, conflicted poorly with the doll-face design of most of the human characters. The few cartoonish characters came off better ... but it was still an odd disconnect, since it seems Pixar went to great lengths to have the backgrounds look photorealistic.

Oh, and I think big nosed nice bod young suitor from the MelGibson clan was kinda hot. But when they next toted out fey prince from the other clan, I began to feel an overload of tropes. If it's something Monty Python made fun with over 30 years ago, it seems a little stale now.

I still put my Funny Scots Cartoon money on How to Train Your Dragon from a few years back (it was about Vikings, but they were all Scottish for some reason).