The dislike it gets isn't helped by the fact that its existence divides fanbases that otherwise tend to overlap owing to the fandom rivalry that resulted from a major Award Snub.The closest thing there is to a consensus is that it is good but not as good as Pixars other fare. A lot of people hate it, a lot of people love it, and a lot of people are indifferent to it. Broken Base: Brave is arguably the most divisive of all of Pixars films.It depends on whether you find their comedic antics funny or annoying.

Some people dislike the Witch because they feel she's either not funny, doesn't fit into the rest of the movie (and not in the good way), and wastes a lot of screen time since Merida and Elinor have to go back and forth between her place and the castle.

Fans who didn't like Merida see her as a huge woobie dealing with a Bratty Teenage Daughter on top of her Baleful Polymorph, others saw her as the one in the wrong and keeping Merida down for being so over bearing to her before her Character Development. Either she's a very believable character with plausible flaws and great Character Development, becoming a wiser person in the process, or a whiny, unsympathetic, selfish and yet another cookie-cutter Tomboy Princess.

Merida herself has become this for a lot of people.

Though controversially, it still rules out her simply not wanting to get married. One popular interpretation of Merida is that she's not interested in any of the male suitors because she's homosexual or asexual.

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