Brave 2012

I'm going to talk about the build up I had with this movie, because I think it affects the way I saw it and therefore what I thought about it. So before I say what I think I'm gonna talk about it from the beginning.

I hadn't heard about this movie until I saw a trailer for it on Youtube. Then I saw that it was a Disney movie and I've had my history with Disney. I grew up with it and most of what I say, what I've learned comes from those movies, my humor comes from Disney, Disney is my whole childhood...... So, lately I've had my share of disappointments with Disney. I've noticed more and more that they're just doing a movie for the money, not to have a lesson learned or... yeah, a good moral to teach your children. Lately they haven't succeeded my expectations and they've just disappointed me al together so for a while I stopped watching Disney because I was tired of being disappointed of a company that practically raised me...

Then this movie popped up on my radar and I watched the trailer, american version.... I thought they were going to do another movie where they concentrate too much on the comedy and screw the story, like they did with Pirates of the Caribbean 2. But then I watched the japanese trailer and DAMN! That trailer made me shiver. I was intrigued to see the movie thanks to that trailer! That trailer was awsome! After that I was stuck on the movie, I listened to the music, I watched clips from it.... I was hooked and I just wanted to know more on how the story would be and what they were doing with it!

.... I must stop watching the new Disney movies... Another disappointment... I'm getting so tired of this! What's happening to you Disney?

Ok, so what's the story? .. Freaky Friday. Yeah! It's Freaky Friday! From the trailer and the beginning the narrator talks about fate and how she wants to change it and the movie is called BRAVE and... You're doing a Freaky Friday story..... *dies of disappointment* ......... OK, I'm back!
So it begins with our main character, the princess, is getting married. But she doesn't want to get married. She wants to be free and have an adventure, to go out and do whatever she wants! So she goes to a witch in the forest and asks for a spell that would change her fate. "Change my mum! That would change my fate right?" ... What?! You could've..... You could've gone SO far with this! Another fate! Another world! Start off with the cliché and then go for another thing in the end, something compeletly different! Do something with this!! No... We get Freaky Friday ><!!! So yeah, after this..... Her mother change into a bear. ... what..? And after that they're just learning from each other and of course they learn something about the world around them as well... It's Freaky Friday meets Brother Bear ><! Haven't you gone further from that?! ... Apparently not.

The things that are good, because I actually liked a lot before the story ruined everything! The animation is great of course! At least there they are improving. So it was really nice to look at... But really.. I just rather watch How to train your Dragon because it's the same animation and a better story.
The music is FANTASTIC! Check out the Soundtrack because it's really beautiful!

The witch I liked! I thought they were gonna go for a really comedian witch and screw the character. But no! They went for a really beliveable side to her and she was really funny to watch!
So was the princesses father! He was hillarious! And I really loved him! They didn't went too far with this character like they could have. I was so satisfied with that character! And it made sense that the princess would want to be a free spirit because her father was a free spirit and she looked up to him.
Her brothers were really enjoyable too. Once again, I thought they were going to go too far with these character too, but... At one point they do, but they're not in the movie for that long so that's fine. Most of the characters were really funny to watch......... They're just in the beginning and the ending... The rest of the movie focuses on the princess and the mother.

The mother is terrible! I'm sorry, I did not like her! She was just stereotypic! They wanted a mother that didn't listen and were just demanding and..... Yeah, that's it! She doesn't listen and she's demanding but the WORST part is... In the end SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER!! she doesn't learn anything! It's just the princess that learns a lesson and not the mother! So in the end she's still probably demanding and doesn't listen because she doesn't learn anything! I HATE THAT!!

I'm gonne be quick here because I have a time limit so I'm just gonna talk about another thing that bothered me... The pacing of this movie was HORRIBLE! It went through too fast, and there was just two scenes in the whole movie that took it's time and it was in the beginning before the princess meets the witch and at the ending when you have the little cry scene. And it was really annoying! It went really fast so you werent really allowed to take in the beautiful sets or to glance over the character when they interacted with each other! It just passed through really fast, if you blinked you probably would've missed it.

So to sum up... The things that was really bad about this movie were just three things. The story, the mother and the pacing. That's it! And apperantly that's all you need to destroy a movie! You have to think about the story first! And role with it! Think about what you've done before, how you can improve something you've already done and if you can bring something new in a well way... If you can't? It's just a waste of time, energy and money! THINK PEOPLE, THINK!

So that's my disappointment of Brave! .... I'm never gonna trust a commersial from Japan again... They make it too great -.-