Tag: pixar

8/10

Sequels are often criticized as not as good as the original, but they have certain natural advantages over the original.  Whereas a movie generally has to spend a good fifteen to twenty minutes establishing characters and context, the sequel can dive right into the storyline because the characters have been fully developed in the original.  The challenge

6.5/10

"Brave" (2012) is the first installment in the venerable Pixar franchise that stars a girl and involves a witch. There is something both nostalgic and cliché about this set-up, no doubt because it is a familiar backdrop of many classic films created by Disney, which purchased Pixar six years ago.

The girl is Melda (voiced by