Fairy Tale of a Flame-Haired Princess

Rating: 8/10 (8 November 2012)

Brave is a movie about a princess Merida. After watching the movie you will surely name her Flame-haired princess or Scottish Katnis Everdeen or Quintessential Tomboy. She is a strong headed, brave teenage princess most importantly she is the best archer of her kingdom. She wants to be free from all traditions & bindings and she don't want to get married at this moment. Her father King Fergus is a big supporter of her and in contrast her mother tries to guide and control her in every aspect of her life.
As Merida become teen several marriage proposal come from clans. All clan's Leader wants Merida as his daughter-in-law. So king Fergus invite all three clans with their first born son because only first born son can worthy of the hand of marriage of princess. All clan's leader's sons have to participate in a contest which is to be chosen by Merida and winner of the contest will get Merida. Merida chose Archery.
In the day of the contest Merida dramatically participate in the contest and wants her own hand of marriage and she become the champion. Then she has a fight with her mother and go to the forest to find her destiny. She finds a witch there. She manages the witch do a magic so that her mother change and agree with her. But witch has no idea what the change would be so she just make a magic cake that will changer Merida's mother.
After eating the cake Her mother turn into a Bear!!! This is the sorrow but also funny part of the movie. Merida's father king Fergus who lost his one leg when fought to a bear many years ago now tries to kill her own wife as he has no idea who the bear would be.To get back her mother again Merida & the bear goes to the forest to find the Witch. After a lot of trouble and help of the fate Merida get her mother back, Of course the changed mother which Merida wanted in first place.
Animation quality of this movie is impeccable. Deep details of every characters were there. I like the flame like hair of Merida which separates her from any conventional fairy tale princess. As the movie plot was in Scotland and characters were Scotties they all spoke in Scottish accent which was very amusing and funny. One thing was missing in this movie which is Narrative momentum. For a Fantasy-Animation movie like Brave Narrative momentum is a must.
Teen age girls especially tomboy girls can learn a lot of positive and negative things from this movie. Merida shows how to be independent, Dreamer & a task achiever. In contrast this character is also rude, problematic, strong head, spoil and these characteristics are unwelcome.