Brave

Pixar?s own history of excellence has effectively painted the studio into a corner. If Brave were a straight-up Disney release, people would be hailing it, at the very least, as an end to the princess movie as we know it. Because it?s Pixar, they get to whine, ?What? Princesses again?? Yes, Brave?s setting and subject matter are more conventional than is the studio?s wont: A medieval Scottish princess resists her parents? attempts to marry her off to one of three scions from neighboring clans. And true, it?s not a masterpiece on the order of Ratatouille or Finding Nemo: Brave is minor Pixar, like Cars (the first one) or Monsters Inc. But I really hope that people will give this imaginative little fairy tale a chance, and I can?t wait to show it to my 6-year-old daughter. It?s a rollicking children?s entertainment, gorgeously animated and wittily cast, and also an unusually astute exploration of the complex bond between mothers and daughters, a relationship that?s often either elided or sentimentalized in children?s literature and film.

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