![]() What it delivers instead is a slow-moving plot without much emotional pull until the very end, when this mother-and-daughter tale will make you cry. ![]() ![]() Still, despite a beginning about a wild redheaded princess that promises big things to come, "Brave" never quite fulfills that promise. I can hear Jessica Rabbit now: "I'm not bad. The vibrant animation sends the senses all aflutter ? our princess, Merida, for one, roves around the castle with mercilessly uncontrollable, springy red hair (Moms: Have hairbrushes at the ready) ? and the characters are just drawn funny, particularly the trio of clan leaders: the hulking Lord MacGuffin (Kevin McKidd), with his girlie ponytails, the chicken-bodied Lord Dingwall (Robbie Coltrane), with his tufts of gray hair sticking straight out of his head as if they were paralyzed with fear, and string bean Lord MacIntosh (Craig Ferguson), who looks as if he fell out of the film "Braveheart" with his blue-painted face and wild spray of black hair. This is still Pixar, after all, and those guys know what they're doing. Not that "Brave's" aim is off course altogether. Unlike past pixie-dust buoyed juggernauts as "Toy Story" and "Finding Nemo," Pixar's "Brave" goes old school with it ? a princess, a witch, a dreaded curse (Is there any other kind?). Pixar is a wee-bit off target with its latest, "Brave."
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