Brave

A young Scottish princess battles against tradition, her countrymen, and most trying of all, her mother. As she struggles to understand her own role and what is required of her she comes to the realization of what is most important.

This was cute. Not Pixar's best, nor their worst, nevertheless I was not expecting the story at hand. I went in ready to see a Scottish version of Mulan and ended up with a sort of Beauty and the Beast meets Brother Bear. Yeah, weird right? Anyway as I said before, it was cute. The characters are well developed and take fun liberties with the Scottish culture.

This could be a tad scary for the wee ones while there are several intense fight scenes. Also it may not be able to hold a captive audience, young or old, as it does kind drag in the third act.

Overall fine family fun.

*** Must See
Rated PG (for violence)

The Avengers

Hello! I am back from the dead.... long story.

Marvel's heroes come together to save the world.

So if you haven't seen this movie yet, you should. It is probably the most fun of the Marvel comic series since the original Iron Man.

They do a great job of bringing all the characters together and not focusing on just a few, but really making all of them as a group "the main character."

The Hulk was surprisingly my favorite and I was amazed at how much I preferred Mark Ruffelo to Edward Norton, I know shocking!

This was actually really fun and well done, if I had any complaints it would just be that they spend too much time re-introducing each character to S.H.E.I.L.D. as we all stayed till the end of the credits on each of the preceding films, right? Speaking of, this one is no different. Wait it out... all they way to the very end.  It's awesome!

*** Must See


Rated PG-13 (for language and violence)