Disney Princess Could you write an explanation on the Best and Worst Aspects of Brave, and What Could Have Made it Better?

The best aspect was definitely the mother-daughter relationship. I really like they way it was addressed and the struggles and conflict it showed.
There are a lot of flaws with this movie, but I'll just explain what annoyed me the most. What annoyed me was the portrayal of men. All of them were oafs- lovable oafs, yes, but oafs. I think it's really reductive when THAT'S the only way you can make your point that women and men can be equal. I especially think it's just plain hypocritical that Merida acts the EXACT SAME WAY the men do but is portrayed as an ultimate heroine-because she acted like that.
I feel like they needed to be less massage-conscious. Obviously, a story should have a message, but ultimately the message in Brave overshadowed the story. They needed to just let the story flow a bit. I also think it would have been a lot better without Mordu, he was entirely unnecessary.

Best: The mother-daughter thing was really the only good thing about it.

Worst: Like rhythmic said about the way it made men look. I hate the whole, "Women are stronger then men and should be the leader while men just act stupid" thing that's going on in our world. Also Merida, she's a copy cat of ever princess in the line up and pulls off a stupider Ariel move but gets called a better Role Model. Plus the movie seem like it was trying to be Disney, but it was more of a Dreamworks film but it was from Pixar...so it was a Diseamar film...

What cold have made it better. If the men were more manly and Merida less like Ariel and the film like Pixar I would love it a lot more...not enough to let Merida in the Line up still but enough that it isn't on my movie hit list.