![]() The third Pixar film to be given a PG rating, as well as their third film to have humans as the main cast of characters, Brave is somewhat darker and more mature in tone than its previous films, even more so than The Incredibles and Up, both of which were also rated PG. From the one part of the inspiration, she loosely based Elinor on herself and Merida on her daughter, Emma. ![]() Chapman's main inspiration for this was the relationship she had with her own daughter, and it also combined her love of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. Although not a traditional romance story between a princess and a man (a prince or a commoner), Brave is a still a love story, as it focuses on the relationship between Merida and her mother, Queen Elinor. This was the intention of Brenda Chapman, the original director of the film. ![]() However, it departs from the traditional fairy tale storyline, in that the princess of the story, Merida, does not have a love interest in the film. It's their first film to have a female protagonist, the first to take place in a historical setting (it is set in the Highlands of 10th century Scotland), and it is also their first fairy tale. I think that Brave still didn't get as many good reviews as all other films before it because critics who were disappointed with Cars 2 were hoping for another major groundbreaker.īrave marks several firsts for Pixar, as have most of their films in one way or another. Reviews for Brave have been mostly positive, and according to the site Rotten Tomatoes, its percentage of positive reviews have been higher than those for both Cars films. Before I saw Brave, I had read about how last year's film Cars 2 was the film that broke the studio's streak of critical success, as more of the reviews were mixed, and even the first Cars had gotten slightly less positive reception than the Pixar films before it. Brave is Pixar's thirteenth feature film, and I've seen all of the others, except for the Cars films. ![]() In fact, I'm a big lover of animation in general, most especially of films made by Disney with and without the partnership of Pixar. ![]() Pixar's latest film Brave is an animated movie that I like very much. ![]()
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