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(Disney Animated Movie Review #8 ) Brave 2012 6 out of 10

Brave  2012   6 out of 10

It didn’t see Brave in the theaters - making it one of the only Pixar films that I missed on the big screen.   The family saw it one day that I was at work and not being overly impressed themselves, I just never really got around to seeing it.  It aired for the first time on the Disney channel the other night and so I decided to sit down with my step daughter and finally watch it.    It is a good film –but probably my least favorite Pixar movie so far.   The story was too derivative of Disney’s own Brother Bear that I couldn’t help but compare it too that movie throughout and in that comparison it lost out.  It just felt like it was covering too much of the same ground in a less interesting way.

Animation:

Pixar’s CGI animation is top notch –yet I loved the 2-D animation of Brother Bear much better and felt like a series of beautiful painting.

The Story:

  Brave is the story of a Princess(that is great at archery)  that challenges the customs of her kingdom, because she wants the choice of who she marries.  Angry at her mother she wishes her to change not knowing this wish would turn her mother into a bear.  Brother Bear which came before it was about a hunter that after killing a bear is magically changed into a bear himself

The story is so similiar in many ways that it just left me feeling like I had seen it done better before and I didn't really connect with the main character at all.  The story in Brother Bear was stronger and made me feel like I went on an actual journey with the characters.

The Humor:

There were funny moments in Brave –but again the humor in Brother Bear was much stronger.   With Rick Moraines and Dave Thomas as the voice of the two Moose characters.

The Music:

The soundtrack for Brother Bear was from one of my favorite artists Phill Collins and I can recall music from that movie instantly –where as I can’t even remember the music from Brave –after I just saw it.

So it was a just ok .  It wasn’t a memorable one for me.   Almost all of the other Pixar movies I’ve seem are very memorable –and this one just wasn’t.   Pretty much the only movie from Pixar that I would call a miss in the Studios history.

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Disney/Pixar Animated Short Reviews: #46 Cable Car Chaos 2014 8+ out of 10

Cable Car Chaos  2014  8+ out of 10

Cable Car Chaos is one of the recent Mickey Mouse cartoons and is packed full of action and laughs.  Mickey and Minnie go and a trolley car in San Francisco to see the sights.  Mickey gets off in Chinatown and Minnie gets stuck on a runaway trolley which leads to a chase all over town as Mickey tries to catch up to the trolley to save her.  The action is thrilling and the gags are quality making for a fun Mickey and Minnie adventure.   Quote of the cartoon  "Dim sum ...Love Some"

It can be found playing on the Disney Channel or Disney Online

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Disney/Pixar Animated Short Reviews: #45 Sailor Donald 2014 9 out of 10

Sailor Donald 2014 9 out of 10

After a few odd entries in the new Mickey Mouse cartoon series we get another gem.   Sailor Donald features Mickey, Minnie, Daisy and Donald.   Daisy wants Donald to take them all sailing after all everyone knows that Donald wears a sailor suit.  Well they set sail and Donald reveals to Mickey that he doesn’t know how to sail a boat (Classic).  The entire cartoon as Mickey and Donald try desperately to keep them all afloat.  This was a fast paced and gag filled short adventure that was near perfect and had my step daughter laughing out loud.   I hadn’t laughed this much in the series since Potatoland.  This one is definitely worth checking out.

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Disney/Pixar Animated Short Reviews: #44 Goofy's Grandma 2014 6 out of 10

Talk about an odd cartoon.  

(Warning Spoilers) 

This entire in the new Mickey Mouse cartoon series was definitely odd.    Goofy unloads his Grandma on Mickey’s house and then grandma causes a whole bunch of damage.  Mickey finally gets to his breaking point where it is revealed that Goofy’s Grandma is actually Goofy in disguise, because he is afraid of something at his house and wants to stay at Mickey’s as a result of this thing that he is scared of.

 Goofy’s house is shown as some weird Bayou shack. (not sure what that is about probably sticking with his odd looks in this series of cartoons) –This series of cartoons definitely doesn’t have any continuity with previous cartoons as each cartoon seems to be in its own world ignoring character living arrangements for whatever story they want to tell at the moment.  It was an okay cartoon- but definitely not one of my favorites from the series.

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