What follows is an excess of archery, horse riding and mountain climbing. When there are no lessons, no responsibilities and I can change my fate.” “Every once in a while there is a day I don’t have to be a princess. But every now and then this flame-haired free spirit manages to avoid her mother’s lessons:

From sundown to sunset Merida is lovingly lectured on how to eat, how to walk, where to sit and what to say. Emma Thompson does a magnificent job voicing Queen Elinor, a caring but equally strong-minded mother. The voice talents of Kelly Macdonald bring this precocious teen to life as she complains about having to curtsy to the formalities her mother thrusts upon her. Using ancient Scotland as a looking glass, its animators examine what happens when the women of a house can’t agree on what constitutes an acceptable destiny.īrave is the story of Merida, a willful princess who has inherited a skill for weapons from her father and a sharp tongue from her mother.

Disney has now produced ten animations through its Pixar studios, but Brave is the first to be truly marketed to mothers and daughters.

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