The other hero of character is Fergus, his character of a bumbling king with an overpowering queen is cliché, but he's executed brilliantly and is the provider of the majority of humor on Brave. Merida as the independent, self-confident, inurbane princess has a tongue-in-cheek charm and a personality that brings a genuine smile to your face.
Pixar created two characters with copybook classic credentials in Princess Merida, and her father Fergus. However to lament on the pitfalls is to ignore the positives. A real shame because up until it takes this dark turn, the rest of this film is a class act bursting with potential. It feels like two different films tacked on to one another with Gorilla Glue, it's as if the directors had no collaboration with each other. Everything from Brenda Chapman is textbook Pixar class and charisma, but once Mark Andrews gets the reins (and you WILL know when it happens), the film takes an abrupt and uncomfortable shift towards the dark, and really challenges the boundaries of PG. This is where my major problem with this film stems.
This wasn't the first Pixar film to have multiple directors, just unplanned multiple directors. After Brenda Chapman left the film for reasons I don't know, Mark Andrews was hired as a shoe in. A bit of background on the film first this film went through two directors. It's hard because I'm sitting at my Dell Latitude feeling bewildered at how a film from the best animation studio in the world left me feeling lukewarm at best. And writing this review is proving anything but easy. It should have been a film that claimed a place in our hearts as so many other Pixar films have in the past. Brave should have been a film that cemented itself as one of the all time greats, a necessary addition to any Top Films list. This should have been an easy review to write.
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