As Merida is forced from her free-flowing (but still elegant) dresses to something more constrictive, she is highly angered at being married off when all she wants to do is run wild and free through the Highlands. The clans come to claim the Princess' hand: the eldest sons of Clan Dingwall, MacGuffin, and Macintosh. Queen Elinor, however, spends her time telling her daughter what a princess "doesn't" do, which is just about everything Merida does and enjoys.Īs it stands, Merida now must marry, and Merida is furious. She loves riding, shooting arrows, a true Warrior Princess. Princess Merida (Kelly Macdonald) is a wild Scottish lass, the oldest of King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor's (Emma Thompson) children. However, I found it a great disappointment, a bit boring, and while everyone gave it their best shot it fails to be anything other than a minor PIXAR work that will eventually be merchandised away from whatever proto-feminist message it attempted to sell. Brave is a good effort, and it has some beautiful aspects to it. ![]() Brave is an effort to rectify this, to allow girls to have their own heroines in this male-dominated world. I have never given much thought to the idea that PIXAR never had a female lead in any of their animated films.
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