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Brave (2012) - Stunningly animated, vivid Scottish family fairytale



+ Best Family Movie of the Year

Vibrant animation and colors on the poster for Steve Purcell, Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman's Brave


In Scotland, the wild, red-haired princess is courted and should get married, her mother the queen thinks. Personal choice shouldn't enter into it. But the princess thinks otherwise and looks out a witch to help her ...

Brave is a fantastic film. The sheer beauty of its animation moves you, and it is probably the most accomplished that we have yet seen in any animation movie. The amount of people who have had to worked for years on the princess' hair for instance can seem perverse, but the result is truly staggering.
Brave also features a lovely fairytale-like family plot and great music from Scottish composer Patrick Doyle (Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)).
The title bravery doesn't really come into verbal expression in the film, making its implication somewhat vague, and Brave is also a little short, (its credits begin after approximately 82 minutes.)
But it is still an immoderately funny, beautiful and delightful film.
It is directed by Brenda Chapman (The Prince of Egypt (1998)), - who also came up with the story and is the first female Pixar director, although her directing the film alone was altered due to 'creative differences', - Mark Andrews (Violet (2007), short) and Steve Purcell (Cars (2006), additional screenplay writer). 

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Watch the trailer here

Cost: 185 mil. $
Box office: 539 mil. $
= Box office success
[Brave also won the Best Animated Film Oscar as well as the Golden Globe and BAFTA equivalent and was a critical and commercial hit worldwide, although two clearly lesser worthy animated films beat it commercially that year: Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (746.9 mil. $) and Ice Age: Continental Drift (875.3 mil. $).]

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