Great voice-acting, with Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, and Emma Thompson.Amazing musical score by Patrick Doyle, especially 'Touch the Sky' by Julie Fowlis.Brilliant animation is another major step-up from other Pixar films.An emotional and touching plot with really good morals about family and courage.Very likable and entertaining characters, such as Merida, Queen Elinor, King Fergus, Angus and the Triplets.It does a great job for stays true to Celtic and Scottish culture.Now, Merida must discover the true meaning of courage and undo a beastly curse before it's too late. Merida seeks help from an eccentric witch, who grants her an ill-fated wish. Her defiance of an age-old tradition angers the Highland lords and leads to chaos in the Kingdom of DunBroch. Princess Merida, the impetuous but courageous daughter of Scottish King Fergus and Queen Elinor, is a skilled archer who wants to carve out her own path in life. Preceding the feature theatrically was a short film entitled La Luna, directed by Enrico Casarosa. Brave premiered on June 10, 2012, at the Seattle International Film Festival, and was released in North America on June 22, 2012. Set in the Scottish Highlands, the film tells the story of a princess named Merida who defies an age-old custom, causing chaos in the kingdom by expressing the desire not to be betrothed. The film's voice cast features Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Kevin McKidd, and Craig Ferguson. The film was produced by Katherine Sarafian, with John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Pete Docter as executive producers. The story is by Chapman, with the screenplay by Andrews, Purcell, Chapman and Irene Mecchi as Pixar's 13rd feature film. It was directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman (in the former's feature directorial debut) and co-directed by Steve Purcell. You only have to be brave enough to see it.īrave is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated fantasy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The battle really heats up when Merida is told she must marry a young man she has never met.Our fate lives within us.

Her mother, however, is not too pleased.Īs the story jumps ahead, we find out that Mom - Queen Elinor - and the teenage Merida often disagree about how a princess should act, dress and even talk. She and her dad happily shoot arrows into the forest. It’s her birthday, and the gift that delights Merida is not a doll or a toy, but a bow. Merida’s independent spirit is obvious from the moment we meet her as a tiny girl living centuries ago in the Scottish Highlands. “There’s not someone else who’s going to rescue her and fix it all for her.” “She’s much more relatable,” said producer Katherine Sarafian, who talked by phone to KidsPost about the movie, which opens Friday. (Pixar is the studio that created other movies including “ Toy Story,” “ Cars” and “ The Incredibles.”)

She’s Pixar’s first heroine (a female hero), and the movie’s creators wanted her to be different. The star of the new animated movie “ Brave” isn’t a Disney princess. Movie princesses usually wear puffy dresses, have perfect hair and wait around for Prince Charming to save them from an evil witch.

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