Brave (2012)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 93m
Director: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
Cast: Voice cast: Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Kevin McKidd
Synopsis:
Scotland, the Dark Ages: young Princess Merida resents being groomed to cement the truce between her father's clan and three other former enemies by marrying the champion of one of them. She asks for help from a witch to make her mother change her mind, but her wish yields results that she least expects and that hark back to the bitterest legend of her culture.
Review:
What starts as a coming-of-age tale with attractively elemental trimmings ends up another story of being allowed to choose your love (and destiny) for yourself, i.e. that old American chestnut, freedom. On the way, though, there are humour, beauty (the heroine's mane of red hair being a key selling point for the animation) and thrills aplenty (the scene in which the mother transforms into an enormous bear must rank alongside the donkey metamorphosis in Pinocchio for sheer child trauma-inducing fright).
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 93m
Director: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
Cast: Voice cast: Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Kevin McKidd
Synopsis:
Scotland, the Dark Ages: young Princess Merida resents being groomed to cement the truce between her father's clan and three other former enemies by marrying the champion of one of them. She asks for help from a witch to make her mother change her mind, but her wish yields results that she least expects and that hark back to the bitterest legend of her culture.
Review:
What starts as a coming-of-age tale with attractively elemental trimmings ends up another story of being allowed to choose your love (and destiny) for yourself, i.e. that old American chestnut, freedom. On the way, though, there are humour, beauty (the heroine's mane of red hair being a key selling point for the animation) and thrills aplenty (the scene in which the mother transforms into an enormous bear must rank alongside the donkey metamorphosis in Pinocchio for sheer child trauma-inducing fright).
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 93m
Director: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
Cast: Voice cast: Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Kevin McKidd
Synopsis:
Scotland, the Dark Ages: young Princess Merida resents being groomed to cement the truce between her father's clan and three other former enemies by marrying the champion of one of them. She asks for help from a witch to make her mother change her mind, but her wish yields results that she least expects and that hark back to the bitterest legend of her culture.
Review:
What starts as a coming-of-age tale with attractively elemental trimmings ends up another story of being allowed to choose your love (and destiny) for yourself, i.e. that old American chestnut, freedom. On the way, though, there are humour, beauty (the heroine's mane of red hair being a key selling point for the animation) and thrills aplenty (the scene in which the mother transforms into an enormous bear must rank alongside the donkey metamorphosis in Pinocchio for sheer child trauma-inducing fright).