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Brave | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

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Daniel Smith

Not sure if this is my favourite thumbnail but you two absolutely nailed it with this one.

Carlos H

My bf at the time drove me crazy, quoting the movie. He would get all serious and say hey babe I have a to ask you something... "If YE HAD THE CHANCE TA CHEHNGE YER FEHT...WOODJUR?" He'd leave me voicemails asking that 🤣.

Dan Holmes

This was the film that signaled the beginning of the downfall of Pixar for me. Loved the first half, second half was... strange lol.

mojo shivers

My favorite thing is that the actress Kelly Macdonald who does the voice of Merida here also played Carla Jean in No Country for Old Men about five years prior. I kept wanting her to bust into a good, “But, Llewelyn, your mother’s dead…” line. Such great range between accents, but I suppose the one here is more her natural Scottish accent like she used in her debut in Trainspotting.

Ballsac McGee

Movie rec: check out red rooms from 2024 I think. Great movie and it's french Canadian to incentivize you to watch it.

PunchNJewelee

This came out the year my daughter was born, she watched it a lot as a toddler 🥹 i never got tired of it. So grateful she got to grow up with these strong femal characters.

Nicky M.

Totally out of left field but I was listening to how you don't like to cook. Suggesting Souper Cubes,.. I do Costco Chicken (pre-shredded breast packs or the Chicken), Rice/noodles or mashed potatoes, veggies, and you can put it in the broth. Put it in single servings or 2-cup servings in the souper cube and freeze it. Make it once a week and you have 4 - 6 dishes. You can make a different version every week, so you have a chicken, beef, pork, veggie .. just sitting there in the freezer - 5 min in the microwave .. done done done.

Opti_Frog

That's a thumbnail for the ages.

Mango

McKidd is hamming it up a bit and I think he’s slightly sped up but it is understandable, if you’re from the area. Watching the movie and laughing at what he says and then seeing the joke was that no-one could understand him was odd though.

Thirty Year Old Mulberry Field

You might be onto something, considering right after this they started spamming sequels and other movies that include more misses than hits, IMO.

Thall

As someone who has grown up with "Asterix and Obelix" the notion of "they couldn't show an actual brawl" is so so weird, lol. But man do I love this movie.

James M

Best Simone photo ever

zona999

I love Brave. Love that there is no prince.

DJ Gonsalves

This is such a perfect thumbnail lol

Major Peril

Ha Ha! Simone makes the best Merida. 😆

BoredLittleLady

I’m so here for more Disney and Pixar movies that are new to George only.

Major Peril

Great reaction to one of my favorite Pixar classics. Such a fun movie. Always love listening to Billy Connolly’s (Fergus) voice and that brilliant Scottish accent. He and Gerard Butler always amaze me as they seem to be able to turn it on really thick when they want. Kinda reminds me of the voice and that over-the-top performance of Tim the Enchanter from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 😁 I was also trying to figure out where I have seen Kelly Macdonald (Merida) recently. Turns out she was in this British/Japanese TV mini-series called Giri/Haji that I saw last year. Pretty good and has some of our favorite Shōgun actors, namely Takehiro Hira (Ishido) and Anna Sawai (Mariko). Incidentally, they both appear in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023). Here’s a few more animated films to consider: * Lightyear (2022) * Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) * Spies in Disguise (2019) * Rise of the Guardians (2012) * Nimona (2023) * 9 (2009) * Penguins of Madagascar (2014) - still hoping you’ll watch it someday 😁

Jeb Manning

I gotta recommend the 2025 animated science fiction horror comedy The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. It follows housemates Daffy Duck and Porky Pig as their efforts to keep their home from being condemned lead them to discover an alien invasion conspiracy at their new job. It's a pretty funny movie and one of the rare few hand drawn animated movies released these days. It also has a pretty good horror plot for a kids' movie. At one point it has a scene ripped straight out of John Carpenter's The Thing. It's such a funny movie, a true return to form for the Looney Tunes, and would make for a great reaction. If you did decide to watch it, I'd stick through the credits, as there's a mid-credits scene and an after-credits scene.

BoredLittleLady

I will second Rise of the Guardians and Nimona! Haven’t seen the others.

jmundt33a

ParaNorman is another animated horror comedy fusion. Different animation style of course.

jmundt33a

The Girl in the Cafe is a great Kelly Macdonald film. My introduction to her.

Obsidian_Rose

good thing I was already eating while watching the intro ;)

JBK405

I've got one interesting trivia tidbit for this movie: I had a friend who was an archery teacher when this movie came out and he RAVED about the archery scene with the three suitors all shooting poorly. As he described it, each one made the real-life mistakes that new/poorly trained archers make when they're starting out. He talked so much about how the crew must have had real archers working on the film, and they must have gone to archery ranges and carefully modeled the way people moved. He expected them to get it right for the Big Dramatic Scenes where Merida is showing off her skills, but he was SO IMPRESSED that they got even the mistakes right.

Angela D. Mitchell

My favorite kind of chicken is my late Mom's Southern fried chicken, or her fabulous chicken and dumplings, which takes all day to make and uses chicken bones, chicken thighs, and breasts. She also made some killer fried chicken livers and gizzards. Sniffle. It's weird how food really brings back the past. George, I agree that American chicken packaging gets rid of too much good meat and it's such a shame -- we should absolutely use those pieces. And Simone, wraps are great, but watch out for the sodium -- one plain flour tortilla can have 1000 milligrams of sodium. Meanwhile, I rewatched BRAVE again here with you guys to see if my opinion would change, but nope -- I just don't really like this movie. Merida isn't "brave," she's fearless, which is a completely different thing. And the whole "forced marriage" subplot is just so badly written, because she adores her father even though he's totally complicit, yet hates her mother to the point of being willing to do something unforgivable to her. It's weird for me because Merida is right not to want a forced marriage but she's also still a total spoiled brat who seems to already live life on her own terms. And it all hinges on what Roger Ebert called the "Idiot Plot." There's no way Merida would really just vaguely say she wants her mother to "change." She would say, "I want my mother to let me do what I want," etc. But the whole clumsy wording of "change" so that we can get the bear stuff is so forced. Not to mention the whole "I will (endanger) my Mom" aspect. And at that point I seriously just checked out of the story. I didn't care about Merida anymore, and even though there is some cute and touching stuff in the second half, I was still done with her. And it's so frustrating because the movie could have really said something brave (cough) and real about the patriarchal system Merida and her mother are forced to inhabit, but instead the movie just makes Dad a harmless joke and the potential feminist stuff into "Mommy is mean." Ugh. So disappointing. But there's just too much junk and bear mayhem for me and so many missed opportunities. It's a shame for me because there's so much beautiful animation. The landscapes are so lovely. Her hair is fantastic. Her mother's movements as a bear are great, as is the scene where she "shoots for her own hand" -- gorgeously done. I just don't like Merida as a person. Even by the end. She's awful.