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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