Pixar's BRAVE

[dalmatianjaws]

Will this be another UP or will it slide further down the mediocrity slope with a healthy push from Cars 2? Debate in the comments after you watch this new full trailer.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present Mulan ... er, How to Train Your Drag ... no, wait ... Brave!



I could comment on the horrible accents, except Pixar hired all Scottish actors. So instead I'll pick on the lame, lukewarm plot of a woman who needs to act like a man in order to prove she's a woman and the fact that in order to show the audience she really is worthy she needs to make the perfect arrow shot in slow motion.

Overall, it looks pretty, but the story seems far, far below the normal Pixar creativity level.

[dnwilliams]

I could comment on the horrible accents, except Pixar hired all Scottish actors.

Vaguely xenophobic there, DJaws...

[dalmatianjaws]

I agree, I wanted to see if Sheridan would let it fly. These forums are my racism testing grounds.

That was actually my first reaction, though. 'Wow, those accents are really over the top."  Makes me wonder how many times we accuse actors doing accents of being fake when in fact they're spot on.

[dnwilliams]

I'd say quite a bit. People gave Dustin Hoffman crap for his accent in Hook. It's great.

[Sheridan Passell]

They are Scottish actors but they are exaggerating their accents and I agree it's not too wonderfully done.

[dnwilliams]

I don't think they're exaggerating, more like...simplifying. They're enunciating because otherwise Murrikans would ask for subtitles.

[Sheridan Passell]

Billy Connelly on the voiceover starts off with his normal voice then inexplicably drifts into more of a wild-Scotsman caricature. Perhaps it's easier to understand, but I think it's more a case of uneven voicework. It's like they've hired Scottish people to do impressions of other Scottish people.

[dalmatianjaws]

It's also old-timey Scotland, not modern Scotland, and a fantasy film, and a cartoon, so I guess we can give them a LITTLE wiggle room in terms of accuracy.

On a side note, H.A.T.E. the character design.

[dnwilliams]

Character design is pretty much the same style as Ratatouille.

[dalmatianjaws]

Which I didn't like. The humans anyway.

[Sheridan Passell]

I've just watched it in slow-motion with the sound off to find a screengrab - it is pretty incredible visually, and actually plays as a better trailer without the dialogue, the pictures tell the story perfectly and the moment where the little guy is hidden behind the big one is actually funnier. The animation on the main woman is fairly mind-blowing, and the way her hair reacts equally so.

[dnwilliams]

Which I didn't like. The humans anyway.

Why?