Brave(& La Luna)

Before Brave Pixar’s short film was an imaginative piece called La Luna. It featured a moon covered with glowing stars, dialogue that consisted completely of grunts, and a premise that echoed aspects of some older stories while still being more or less its own idea. These elements mixed together resulted in an atmosphere je ne sais quoi, and the result feels magical regardless of the viewer’s age. One of the best shorts I’ve seen before a Pixar feature.
Of course, that raised expectations for the movie to come a lot, and for the first half hour or so, I was beginning to feel disappointed. The supposed premise of Brave felt cliche, the drama overdone, the characters caricature.
But that was only because I was assuming the plot was going to go the way the trailer implied. ( I really ought to have known better to trust a trailer over Pixar.... )