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Brave
I was at the european premiere of Disney Pixars Brave today, it's not one of Pixars best, it was funny and entertaining, but I think the lack of a proper villain hurt it. No doubt the Visit Scotland tourist board will be delighted. There should have been a Trainspotting style "It's shite being Scottish" speech in it. That'd have been good. 
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(the kids enjoyed it though
Also, becuase of the setting it reminded me very much of Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett. I half expected the Elves and the Witches of Lancre to show up
Emma Thompson voices the Queen but her accent is very good
And why not? She's half-Scottish on her mother's side and spent childhood holidays in Scotland.
Her character was really good I thought. I liked the Nanny McPhee reunion between Emma Thompson and Kelly MacDonald
Yes I thought that too,lol! I could imagine a little "I aten't dead" sign in that witches cottage,lol
But they missed an opportunity to do a bear/bare joke near the end!
I really enjoyed this film - not Pixar's best but far from its worst. The stand out parts for me:
- The scene where the dad offered a role playing session to help the mum figure out how to deal with their daughter - his high-pitched speech completely lampshaded the clichés of the earlier scene in which the protagonist rode through the Scottish countryside - as brilliant it had been regardless - and I was in stitches.
- The dogs... enough said
- The soundtrack was gorgeous
- The voice acting was very good. When I saw the trailer was plugging an all star cast, I feared it would be like a typical DreamWorks, where the actors simply speak as they normally would. I genuinely couldn't tell who was doing what voice until the credits rolled.
Excellent film, great characters, superb graphics, decent storyline and faultless voice over. Slightly scarey at times but extremely funny throughout.
Pure PIXAR..no Disney shite anywhere in this film
Go and see it
Did you fall asleep :eek:
What about the three little boys, the heads of the three clans and their sons, the witch, the bear etc etc etc
Re your last point, you couldn't tell that was Billy Connolly? :eek: I think you might need your ears tested
Not really all that familiar with Billy Connolly I'm afraid - perhaps that'd be the exception if I was!
Ah, fair enough, I'll let you off...this time :cool:
I didn't know that so much of the story would take place at night and although I enjoyed the film as a whole, there were times when I had to lift the glasses to see what was going on.
We really wanted to watch it in 2D but our local cinema (perhaps cynically) scheduled the evening showings to start after 9:00 pm, which is no good when you have to work the next day.
I've been reserving judgement on 3D for a while but now I think I'm firmly in the Mark Kermode camp.
(Sorry for going off topic slightly.)
I think your cinema might not have had the screen calibrated properly or something because i saw it in 3D today and the brightness was fine.
As for the film, i enjoyed it, but it wasn't up there with the Toy Story's or Wall-E for me. Still very good though, and the animation was goregous.
I wondered if it was just me — or perhaps the projectionist — but then I came across this 3D review. Seems I wasn't alone. (Scroll down to the 'Brightness' section.)
It will be a case of the projectionist not turning up the brightness. I watched the film at Cineworld and i've never had a problem with the brightness on 3D films when i've seen films there (even Piranha 3DD which featured a lot of night time scenes). It could also be the decision of the cinema company not to turn up the brightness though, because the brighter the projection, the shorter the life of the projection bulb (which are quite expensive to replace).
To be honest, I think the main issue I had at first was that Elinor at the start seemed so one-dimensional as to put me off, but I guess I realised that she basically had to be in order for her character to be redeemed. Yeah it doesn't make a lot of sense to me either but it clicked for me this time.
And I'll admit: even though I knew what was coming, my eyes did water at the end.
I don't think the rest of my family have seen this film yet, so I will probably be getting the DVD when it comes out. Anyone here know roughly when that will be?
ETA: Ah, the DVD comes out on 26th November for those that didn't know.
it almost flt like a tv episode , farcical type plot, not much else to the story .
The daughter was a spoilt, selfish brat and why they decided to build a movie around a teenage temper tantrum coupled with attempted matricide I'll never understand.
In the IMDB reviews somebody said it was basically "feminism 101". The problem is that it is that nasty faux feminism that relies on all men being made to appear stupid and self centredness is seen as something to be proud of.
And why is it never suggested that the male suitors are just as hard done by being expected to marry somebody for political reasons rather than love?
Oh that's right, men are unfeeling brutes.
The hair was irritating, the voices were irritating (there must be somebody else in Scotland other than Billy Connerly and Robbie Coltrane but they have obviously been struck dumb), the sub par slapstick was irritating, the cliches were irritating.
Dreadful film and utterly pointless. Every "theme" has been done before and much, much better.