6/18/2023 0 Comments Anime studio debut 9 reviewBut while Brave's gorgeous and innovative use of shading and colour – the movie has the look of a living, breathing pastel painting – will no doubt boost tourism, there is little here to suggest that directors Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman are cheerleaders for Scottish independence. Once titled The Bear and the Bow, Brave's title has drawn comparisons with a certain Mel Gibson movie beloved of Scots nationalists. Merida sets off in a Kevin-the-teenager style rage into a nearby spooky forest there she finds what may just be a way to shift the course of her life away from its seemingly inevitable conclusion. Matters come to a head when the leaders of three clans, who have united with Fergus to keep the kingdom at peace, travel to court in order to fulfil a ceremony which demands that his daughter must marry one of their eldest sons. Her father, King Fergus ( Billy Connolly), is a giant, peg-legged boy-man with an epicurean passion for food, booze and fighting, and only one apparent hatred: the hideous bear Mor'du, who chomped off his limb many years earlier. Princess Merida (Kelly Macdonald) – the animation studio's first proper lead female heroine, no less – is a feisty teenage redhead with magnificently unkempt hair who prefers shooting her bow and riding her beloved horse to the courtly travails constantly foisted on her by her mother, Queen Elinor ( Emma Thompson). F or the animation studio's debut foray into fairytale, Pixar has delivered a rousing family melodrama set in a fantasy medieval highland Scotland populated by rowdy, larger-than-life clan chieftains, mischievous magical spirits and monstrous, murderous ursines – all impressively grounded in a reassuringly vigorous reality.
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