feels quite different from earlier Pixar films, demonstrating a refreshing versatility in an oeuvre that was starting to look a bit staid, especially as sequels overtook the slate
Brave's lack of an authorial touch-animation of this scale inevitably requires a great many filmmakers, Pixar's most satisfying efforts are steered by a singular vision, whereas Brave feels designed by committee
a happy antidote to all the recent films in which women triumph by besting men at their own macho games, as if the history of male dominance is one of patriarchs suppressing females' essential warlike nature
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