Merida is a mean archer who loves her arsenal (“A princess does not place her weapon on the table,” advises her protocol-tending mother, voiced by Emma Thompson) and bristles at the thought and process of being courted by potential (and buffoonish) suitors, to the point where old-fashioned lucky charms and divine intervention are required. Of course, the very idea of a major motion picture devoted to a young female protagonist relying on wits, magic, and self-determination in the face of suffocating tradition is the deeper and more important virtue of Brave. Said head of hair, a symbol of free-spirited individualism, is flung to the wind - in the best 3-D computer animation money can buy - as she races about the Scottish countryside and maneuvers courageously through the dark, bewitched forest in search of liberation from the process of being married off. In this year’s Pixar model, the heartwarming and mostly bravo-worthy Brave, the visual/leitmotif angle may well be a bouncing, epic head of orange hair, owned by our intrepid young Scottish princess heroine Merida (Kelly Macdonald). Peculiar character features have regularly figured into the endearing charms of Pixar blockbusters, from the rickety robotics of WALL♾ to that loveable motley crew in Up. Sporting bow, arrow, and a mean mane of flowing red locks, Merida (voice of Kelly Macdonald) heralds a new wave of Disney princess in Pixar’s latest, Brave.
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