Brave

Brave by Pixar. 

Another movie night with the kids and it's definitely a winner by a long shot. My brother and I have said over the years that every story has been already been told countless times, it's in how you tell the story, that's what matters. Pixar has been re-telling countless stories since they started making movies, but it's in the telling of the story that Pixar has hit on all cylinders (except for the atrocious political/environmental/agenda pushing Cars 2, you figured everyone would have learned from Pocahontas that agenda pushing doesn't sell tickets, just tell a story and let the message explain itself).  Thankfully Brave doesn't fall into this pushing an agenda type of storyline, but instead just tells a story and it's all the better for it.

Brave's gorgeous photography, fluent camera movement/placement/angles, great editing, inspired cutting between scenes and the simple elegant story telling is a thing of beauty and a wonder to behold. One thing I've noticed over the years from watching a Pixar movie is that they have a more grounded and better language of film than about 90% of the people directing movies now-a-days. How they manipulate the camera to get their shots, how they edit, how they cut scenes, how they use music, how they use color, and well even how they write stories is so far better than just about every live action movie out there a few directors not with standing (Michael Mann, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, and James Cameron) that I think Hollywood should hold their head in shame at being upstaged by cartoons. And not just upstaged in a small way, but upstaged in an extremely large way. I also find it interesting that Disney's last two movies to have a female lead also had the hair as a minor character: Tangled and the incredibly long blond hair; Brave and the stringy, wild red hair. 

This is also one of the first cartoons I've seen in a while where the main character has both parents where as most cartoons the main character either has one parent or no parents at all, that alone makes the story line already a different way of telling a story. There was a lot to laugh at in this movie at least for me, Jess kept wondering what I was laughing at the whole time and I had to tell her, I just thought that what was happening was funny, and there was a lot going on that made me laugh. All in all it's a good family movie from Pixar one not just to see but to own as anyone whose a movie buff should own every Pixar film (except Cars 2).