Brave

Ulkar Alakbarova

May 16

Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Mérida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Mérida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Mérida's quest — and serving as comic relief — are the kingdom's three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin, the surly Lord Macintosh, and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall.

Credits: TheMovieDb.

Film Cast:

Merida (voice): Kelly Macdonald
Fergus (voice): Billy Connolly
Elinor (voice): Emma Thompson
The Witch (voice): Julie Walters
Lord Dingwall (voice): Robbie Coltrane
Lord MacGuffin / Young MacGuffin (voice): Kevin McKidd
Lord MacIntosh (voice): Craig Ferguson
Maudie (voice): Sally Kinghorn
Maudie (voice): Eilidh Fraser
Young Merida (voice): Peigi Barker
Young MacIntosh (voice): Steven Cree
The Crow (voice): Steve Purcell
Wee Dingwall (voice): Callum O'Neill
Martin (voice): Patrick Doyle
Gordon (voice): John Ratzenberger

Film Crew:

Executive Producer: Andrew Stanton
Executive Producer: John Lasseter
Music Editor: Bill Abbott
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gary Rydstrom
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tom Johnson
Sound Effects Editor: Kyrsten Mate
Thanks: Darla K. Anderson
Thanks: Kori Rae
Producer: Katherine Sarafian
Storyboard Artist: Nathan Stanton
Thanks: Jonas Rivera
Sculptor: Jerome Ranft
Character Designer: Carter Goodrich
Production Manager: Andrea Warren
Camera Operator: Shawn Brennan
Director of Photography: Robert Anderson
Story Artist: Louis Gonzales
Supervising Animator: Alan Barillaro
Animation: Brett Coderre
Animation: Doug Dooley
Animation: Nancy Kato
Animation: Victor Navone
Lighting Manager: Jenni Tsoi
Second Film Editor: Torbin Xan Bullock
Sound Designer: E.J. Holowicki
Master Lighting Artist: Scott Clifford
Post Production Supervisor: Paul Cichocki
Foley Artist: Dennie Thorpe
Foley Artist: Jana Vance
Foley Editor: Dee Selby
Original Music Composer: Patrick Doyle
Production Design: Steve Pilcher
Executive Producer: Pete Docter
Thanks: Sharon Calahan
Sound Effects Editor: Teresa Eckton
Screenplay: Irene Mecchi
Casting: Kevin Reher
Thanks: John Walker
Story: Brenda Chapman
Associate Producer: Mary Alice Drumm
Thanks: Lindsey Collins
Director: Mark Andrews
Co-Director: Steve Purcell
Story Artist: Ted Mathot
Additional Storyboarding: Derek Thompson
Executive Music Producer: Chris Montan
Casting: Natalie Lyon
Thanks: Lynn Ferguson
Storyboard Artist: Scott Morse
Editorial Manager: Ann Brilz
Music Editor: Barney Jones
Script Supervisor: Brian Larsen
Sculptor: Greg Dykstra
Fix Animator: Andrew Beall
Music Supervisor: Tom MacDougall
Music Editor: Christopher Benstead
Animation: Carlo Vogele
Thanks: Richard E. Hollander
Shading: Stephen King
ADR Editor: Cheryl Nardi
Supervising Sound Editor: Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
Script Coordinator: Ryan Lynch
Sound Effects Editor: Nia Hansen
Sound Effects Editor: Josh Gold
Simulation & Effects Artist: Christopher Griffin
Simulation & Effects Artist: Rogan Griffin
Simulation & Effects Artist: Stephen Matthew Gustafson
Simulation & Effects Artist: Mark Thomas Henne
Simulation & Effects Artist: Thomas Moser
Simulation & Effects Artist: Olivier Soares
Animation Fix Coordinator: Courtney Casper
Supervising Animator: Steven Clay Hunter
Publicist: Robin Chandler
Publicist: Hilary Goss
Publicist: Chris Wiggum
Script Supervisor: Shannon Wood
Foley Editor: Sue Fox
Foley Recordist: Andrea Gard
Storyboard Artist: Nick Sung
Production Manager: Laura Leganza Reynolds
Master Lighting Artist: Erik Smitt
Set Designer: Nelson 'Rey' Bohol
Set Designer: Armand Baltazar
Sound Effects Editor: Justin Pearson
Animation: Royce Wesley
Fix Animator: Erick Oh
Music Score Producer: Maggie Rodford
Foley Mixer: Frank Rinella
Animation: Ramiro Lopez Dau
Software Engineer: Apurva Shah
Additional Editing: Serena Warner
Animation: Michal Makarewicz
Animation: Andrew Coats
Animation: Mark C. Harris
Master Lighting Artist: Luke Martorelli
Simulation & Effects Artist: David Lally
First Assistant Editor: Sarah K. Reimers
Master Lighting Artist: Jesse Hollander
Animation: Robb Denovan
Set Designer: Paul Abadilla
Master Lighting Artist: Lloyd Bernberg
Post-Production Manager: Eric Pearson
Thanks: Brian M. Rosen
Animation Department Coordinator: Stephen Krug
Animation: Kevin Chesnos
Animation: K. C. Roeyer
Animation: Steve Mason
Animation: Jean-Claude Tran
Animation: Everett Downing Jr.
Storyboard Artist: Maxwell Brace IV
Conductor: James Shearman
Software Engineer: Doug Letterman
Animation: Austin Madison
Director of Photography: Danielle Feinberg
VFX Artist: Jason Johnston
Art Department Manager: Dana Murray
Musician: Jim Sutherland
Simulation & Effects Artist: Jim Cody Harrington
Simulation & Effects Artist: Samantha Raja
Simulation & Effects Artist: Frank Aalbers
Animation: Lindsay Andrus
Art Department Coordinator: Megan Bartel
Animation: Jude Brownbill
Production Office Assistant: Ramon Cardona
Fix Animator: Guillaume Chartier
Fix Animator: Eric S. Degner
Master Lighting Artist: Airton Dittz Jr.
Fix Animator: Tsung-Yin Hsieh
Animation: Guilherme Sauerbronn Jacinto
Master Lighting Artist: Mitch Kopelman
Animation: Aaron Koressel
Animation: Bruce Kuei
Animation: Cameron Miyasaki
Animation: Javier Moya Alonso
Animation: Juan Carlos Navarro Carrión
Animation: Andreas Procopiou
Master Lighting Artist: Jordan Rempel
Animation: Nickolas Rosario
Animation: Allison Rutland
Master Lighting Artist: Vandana Reddy Sahrawat
Animation: Brett Schulz
Fix Animator: Stefan Schumacher
Master Lighting Artist: David Shavers
Software Engineer: Shalin Shodhan
Master Lighting Artist: Michael Sparber
Animation: Matthew Strangio
Animation: Raphael Suter
Animation: Jessica Torres
Fix Animator: Alon Winterstein
Master Lighting Artist: Maria Yershova
Animation: Tom Zach
Music Director: Andrew Page
Finance: Megan Albert
Administration: Allysa Amundson
Administration: Meghan Benafield
Finance: Nancy Garretson Case
Publicist: Deborah Coleman
Simulation & Effects Artist: Douglas Waters
Finance: Rachel Ergas
Administration: Heather Feng
Finance: Kristi Gamble
Publicist: Briana Gardner
Finance: Timothy Glass
Finance: Jeanie Gray
Finance: Valerie Hathaway
Finance: Kentaro Hinoki
Finance: Heather D.C. Jackson
Administration: Michelle Moretta
Finance: Kacy Naylor
Finance: Rosana Neciuk
Administration: Tanya Oskanian
Administration: Lara Pendleton
Finance: Kristina Ruud
Finance: Michelle Simons
Publicist: Hasia Sroat
Administration: Wendy Dale Tanzillo
Finance: Shari Villarde
Finance: Deana Walker
Finance: Annette Wang
Master Lighting Artist: Brian Boyd
Master Lighting Artist: Jae Hong Kim
Master Lighting Artist: Ken Lao
Supervising Technical Director: Bill Wise
Systems Administrators & Support: Ling Hsu
Software Engineer: Shawn Neely
Animation Fix Coordinator: Courtney Casper Kent
Animation: Jae Hyung Kim
Animation: Dan Nguyen
Animation: Benjamin Su
Finance: Kheron Jones-Kassing
Finance: Mark Joseph
Finance: Karen Perry
Finance: Sue Williams
Finance: Stephanie Pham
Lighting Coordinator: Piper Freeman
Lighting Artist: Andy Lin
Master Lighting Artist: Jeremy Vickery
Security: John Bennett
Security: Marlon Castro
Security: Paul Chideya
Security: Richard Cogger
Security: Joni Superticioso
Set Dressing Artist: Yung Lian Frank Tai
Fix Animator: Catherine Hang-Hicks
Lighting Artist: Farhez Rayani
Editorial Coordinator: Lisa Fotheringham
Master Lighting Artist: Jonathan Pytko
Scoring Mixer: Andrew Dudman
Animation: Doug Frankel
Animation: Ken Kim
Animation: Michael Wu
Animation: Stephen L. Wong
Software Engineer: Jim Atkinson
Software Engineer: Manuel Kramer
Set Designer: Huy K. Nguyen
Simulation & Effects Artist: Edwin Chang
Simulation & Effects Artist: Meng Yu
Thanks: Sandy Blaine
Thanks: Ruth Palmer
Thanks: Wayne Piersol
Thanks: Deanna Savant
Administration: Dennis 'D.J.' Jennings
Administration: Bill Polson
Administration: Marguerite Enright
Administration: Mickayela Jade Beatty
Animation Manager: Jaclyn Simon
Animation: Curran W. Giddens
Animation: Rich McKain
Animation: Kristoff Vergne
Legal Services: Serena Martinez
Legal Services: Brynn Mohagen
Legal Services: Rob Rieders
Legal Services: C. Bart Sullivan
Legal Services: Jody Weinberg Silverman
Editorial Coordinator: Matt DeMartini
Editorial Coordinator: Sarah Fernbacher
Editorial Manager: Mari Aizawa
Fix Animator: Michelle Ohana
Fix Animator: Manuel Zenon Rodriguez
Software Engineer: Joachim De Deken
Software Engineer: Randal Lamore
Software Engineer: Philip Rideout
Music Programmer: Rupert Cross
Musician: Willie Armstrong
Musician: Kyle Stuart Howie
Musician: Lorne MacDougall
Musician: Kyle Warren
Musician: Christopher Stout
Musician: Bryn Lewis
Musician: Neil Percy
Musician: Matheu Watson
Musician: Jarlath Henderson
Post Production Assistant: Jose Rosa
Production Office Assistant: Junn Lee
Production Office Assistant: Samantha Jane Samuels
Publicist: Steven Argula
Security: Jennie Jensen
Security: George McCloskey
Security: Nghia Neal To
Security: Price A. Troche Sr.
Security: Jeffrey Worrall
Security: Bryant Yu
Second Film Editor: David Suther
Set Dressing Artist: Kristen Needham
Thanks: Iain Stewart
Stereoscopic Coordinator: Christina F. Julian
Systems Administrators & Support: Heidi Parmelee
Security: Michael Phillis
Art Department Coordinator: Corinne Cavallaro
Set Supervisor: Derek Williams

Movie Reviews:

Travis Bell: I enjoyed Brave but it wasn't without a few flaws.
First of all, I never felt like there was much meat to the story. It was enjoyable sure, and had some good morals and family values but I never felt like I was invested in the main characters. Stuff just seemed to happen.

Secondly, and this isn't as much the movies fault as perhaps the marketing that surrounded it, but it was actually a very different movie than I thought it was going to be. I discovered that it's hard to break those pre-conceptions as I kept thinking the story was going somewhere else than it did.

Brave was at its best when it made me laugh which unfortunately, was just too seldom. For example, the entire scene where the 3 clans try to fight for Mérida's hand was way too short!

The voice cast was very good though. Kelly Macdonald in particular, was perfect as Mérida.

All in all, Brave was good but not great. It just seems to lack the "magic" I expect from Pixar. Not their worst outing but close to it.
Gimly: The following is a long-form review that I originally wrote in 2012.
The film in all was a relatively decent venture. Perhaps Pixar's well deserved success is its pitfall here. Though highly enjoyable, Brave was simply not up to the standard brought forth by the likes of the Toy Story trilogy, Up or Monsters Inc. ?This movie falls more into the category of "Entertaining, acceptable, cute" instead of the higher echelons some of the studio's past work has earned it.

Brave attempts to take the "Disney Princess" line away from its predecessors in which princesses are only good for getting themselves into trouble so that men can rescue them (ie. Snow White, Belle, etc.) or in the case of the Little Mermaid in which she is willing to almost literally walk on broken glass for a man simply because he's pretty. And for this, we thank Brave. All that said and done however, there was one rather unfortunate side-effect of all this. I at first simply felt it was my warped interpretation, but every person whom I've spoken to drew the same conclusion, so perhaps not... Now, I'm sure it wasn't intentional, but, I must say, the main character Merida... Seemed to... Have a thing for her mum. Just saying, honestly, that's how the piece feels as it plays out.

On a less incestuous note though, stand up comic/actor Billy Connolly as Meridia's father King Fergus is simply brilliant, and probably the highest point of the whole film. Though the animation didn't exactly make leaps and bounds forward in comparison to anything else that's come out in the past couple of years, it was still most certainly impressive.

Maybe if I had been part of Brave's target audience I could have appreciated the movie more. It was most certainly good, but I wasn't really ?blown away? by any aspect of the film whatsoever. It managed to scrape a slight "above average" but I really would have liked something more than I got, especially seeing as movies on the big screen tend to impress me more readily.
Brave's biggest problem is that it is, in essence, forgettable. Though an entertaining 93 minutes to be sure, I can't imagine myself hankering for a re-watch any time soon.

62%

-Gimly
r96sk: A wholehearted animated film from Disney.
'Brave' is very good. The Scottish vibes help a lot, but the meaningful message and superb animation are just a few of the film's other big positives. The casting, characters and music are some too. The premise itself isn't anything breathtakingly new, but is most certainly enjoyable to see unfold.

The cast are excellent, with my personal standouts being Kelly Macdonald (Merida) and Emma Thompson (Elinor). There are also good performances from Billy Connolly (Fergus), Robbie Coltrane (Dingwall) and Julie Walters (Witch).

It's a fun and simple watch, one I thoroughly felt entertained by.

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