![]() ![]() She’s also a bow-and-sword wielding, comfortable-dress-wearing tomboy to boot, more enthralled with riding around the highlands on her trusty stallion, Angus, than practicing how to be a proper future Queen with her mother. Incensed at learning of plans to marry her off, an upset Merida seeks out a solution from a forest witch, a bid that has always worked so well for characters in her situation. What follows is magic, curses, mayhem, lots of arrows, and yes, a few giant bears. ![]() The story dutifully hits its marks, sometimes more formulaically than one would hope. It’s clear that Disney/Pixar was determined to stick to a clear-cut fairy tale format, and were only comfortable with slight deviations. What Brave has is not a daring and original plot, per se, but an earnest sense of delight and joy in the telling of a tale. It concerns me less that a story might be standard if I am genuinely enjoying the journey. ![]() Brave begs the indulgence of the kid inside all of us, and does so without a shred of irony or cynicism. ![]()
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