Brave

I love, love, love PIXAR films and this is another gem in the Pixar golden crown. Beautiful scenery, good story, really great characters, hilarious jokes, awesome fighting scenes, there is absolutely little to dislike about this movie. The film is about Princess Merida, Pixar's first female protagonist, in medieval Scotland and her relationship with her mother Queen Elinor. Merida wants to live her life her way while her mother wants her to follow their kingdoms' traditions and find her a suitor to maintain peace between all the clans. They hold a archery contest to determine Merida's suitor. Merida enters in the contest for her own hand and hits dead center on every target. This angers the Queen, for Merida went against tradition by participating in the contest and embarrassing the clans for outperforming them. This leads to a huge fight between the mother and daughter. Feeling hurt by her mothers words and actions, Merida rides off into the woods. She then comes across a sort of 'Stonehenge' circle where she is lead by some magic wisps to a witch. She asks for spell from the witch that will change her mother, thus changing her fate. The witch gives her a cake, which she gives to her mother. Her mother takes a bite of the cake and changes into a huge bear. From there the two take a sort of journey together knowing a little bit more of each other and understanding from their different point of views. I don't want to give away the rest of film but it is really quite good. 

What really makes this movie so good is not so much the story, but the characters and the animation technology is what really makes this film so great. Every single character in this film is really great and they are hilarious when they playoff each other and are even funnier when they fight with each other. My favorite character would have to be the King, Fergous, he is just so funny , especially when he is fighting with some of his friends from the other clans or when he is in trouble with his wife. He seems to have a lot in common with his daughter, they both like to make jokes, they like to fight, practice archery, they just seem to have a good relationship. The Queen is pretty good too, I love how much power and respect she carries, she can cease an entire war with one dirty look, now that is real power. As for Merida, I think she is an okay character, I certainly like her more than most than the other Disney Princesses. I like the fact that she is not crazy for a boy or looking for love like other female characters, in fact there is no love interest at all in this movie, I really like that about this movie. At one point in the movie she even has a sword fight with her father in order to defend her mother and actually is able to push him to the ground, that is some major 'bravery' right there. As one would expect from Pixar, the animation and the details in this movie are amazing. The bears they created for this film look like real bears. The most impressive is the waterfall scene, it looks like a real waterfall with real mist surrounding it. Its not Toy Story 3 and I don't it will be nominated for best film, but I have no doubts that come Oscar time it will win Best Animated film hands down.

I have already been to see this movie twice, that is how good it is. This movie is great for everyone, I urge you to go see it as soon as possible to enjoy all the laughs and beautiful scenes Pixar has to offer.