Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Mérida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Mérida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Mérida’s quest — and serving as comic relief — are the kingdom’s three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin, the surly Lord Macintosh, and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall.
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Film Cast:
- Merida (voice): Kelly Macdonald
- Fergus (voice): Billy Connolly
- Elinor (voice): Emma Thompson
- The Witch (voice): Julie Walters
- Lord Dingwall (voice): Robbie Coltrane
- Lord MacGuffin / Young MacGuffin (voice): Kevin McKidd
- Lord MacIntosh (voice): Craig Ferguson
- Maudie (voice): Sally Kinghorn
- Maudie (voice): Eilidh Fraser
- Young Merida (voice): Peigi Barker
- Young MacIntosh (voice): Steven Cree
- The Crow (voice): Steve Purcell
- Wee Dingwall (voice): Callum O’Neill
- Martin (voice): Patrick Doyle
- Gordon (voice): John Ratzenberger
Film Crew:
- Executive Producer: Andrew Stanton
- Executive Producer: John Lasseter
- Music Editor: Bill Abbott
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gary Rydstrom
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tom Johnson
- Sound Effects Editor: Kyrsten Mate
- Thanks: Darla K. Anderson
- Thanks: Kori Rae
- Producer: Katherine Sarafian
- Storyboard Artist: Nathan Stanton
- Thanks: Jonas Rivera
- Sculptor: Jerome Ranft
- Character Designer: Carter Goodrich
- Production Manager: Andrea Warren
- Camera Operator: Shawn Brennan
- Director of Photography: Robert Anderson
- Story Artist: Louis Gonzales
- Supervising Animator: Alan Barillaro
- Animation: Brett Coderre
- Animation: Doug Dooley
- Animation: Nancy Kato
- Animation: Victor Navone
- Lighting Manager: Jenni Tsoi
- Second Film Editor: Torbin Xan Bullock
- Sound Designer: E.J. Holowicki
- Master Lighting Artist: Scott Clifford
- Post Production Supervisor: Paul Cichocki
- Foley Artist: Dennie Thorpe
- Foley Artist: Jana Vance
- Foley Editor: Dee Selby
- Original Music Composer: Patrick Doyle
- Production Design: Steve Pilcher
- Executive Producer: Pete Docter
- Thanks: Sharon Calahan
- Sound Effects Editor: Teresa Eckton
- Screenplay: Irene Mecchi
- Casting: Kevin Reher
- Thanks: John Walker
- Story: Brenda Chapman
- Associate Producer: Mary Alice Drumm
- Thanks: Lindsey Collins
- Director: Mark Andrews
- Co-Director: Steve Purcell
- Story Artist: Ted Mathot
- Additional Storyboarding: Derek Thompson
- Executive Music Producer: Chris Montan
- Casting: Natalie Lyon
- Thanks: Lynn Ferguson
- Storyboard Artist: Scott Morse
- Editorial Manager: Ann Brilz
- Music Editor: Barney Jones
- Script Supervisor: Brian Larsen
- Sculptor: Greg Dykstra
- Fix Animator: Andrew Beall
- Music Supervisor: Tom MacDougall
- Music Editor: Christopher Benstead
- Animation: Carlo Vogele
- Thanks: Richard E. Hollander
- Shading: Stephen King
- ADR Editor: Cheryl Nardi
- Supervising Sound Editor: Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
- Script Coordinator: Ryan Lynch
- Sound Effects Editor: Nia Hansen
- Sound Effects Editor: Josh Gold
- Simulation & Effects Artist: Christopher Griffin
- Simulation & Effects Artist: Rogan Griffin
- Simulation & Effects Artist: Stephen Matthew Gustafson
- Simulation & Effects Artist: Mark Thomas Henne
- Simulation & Effects Artist: Thomas Moser
- Simulation & Effects Artist: Olivier Soares
- Animation Fix Coordinator: Courtney Casper
- Supervising Animator: Steven Clay Hunter
- Publicist: Robin Chandler
- Publicist: Hilary Goss
- Publicist: Chris Wiggum
- Script Supervisor: Shannon Wood
- Foley Editor: Sue Fox
- Foley Recordist: Andrea Gard
- Storyboard Artist: Nick Sung
- Production Manager: Laura Leganza Reynolds
- Master Lighting Artist: Erik Smitt
- Set Designer: Nelson ‘Rey’ Bohol
- Set Designer: Armand Baltazar
- Sound Effects Editor: Justin Pearson
- Animation: Royce Wesley
- Fix Animator: Erick Oh
- Music Score Producer: Maggie Rodford
- Foley Mixer: Frank Rinella
- Animation: Ramiro Lopez Dau
- Software Engineer: Apurva Shah
- Additional Editing: Serena Warner
- Animation: Michal Makarewicz
- Animation: Andrew Coats
- Animation: Mark C. Harris
- Master Lighting Artist: Luke Martorelli
- Simulation & Effects Artist: David Lally
- First Assistant Editor: Sarah K. Reimers
- Master Lighting Artist: Jesse Hollander
- Animation: Robb Denovan
- Set Designer: Paul Abadilla
- Master Lighting Artist: Lloyd Bernberg
- Post-Production Manager: Eric Pearson
- Thanks: Brian M. Rosen
- Animation Department Coordinator: Stephen Krug
- Animation: Kevin Chesnos
- Animation: K. C. Roeyer
- Animation: Steve Mason
- Animation: Jean-Claude Tran
- Animation: Everett Downing Jr.
- Storyboard Artist: Maxwell Brace IV
- Conductor: James Shearman
- Software Engineer: Doug Letterman
- Animation: Austin Madison
- Director of Photography: Danielle Feinberg
- VFX Artist: Jason Johnston
- Art Department Manager: Dana Murray
- Musician: Jim Sutherland
- Simulation & Effects Artist: Jim Cody Harrington
- Simulation & Effects Artist: Samantha Raja
- Simulation & Effects Artist: Frank Aalbers
- Animation: Lindsay Andrus
- Art Department Coordinator: Megan Bartel
- Animation: Jude Brownbill
- Production Office Assistant: Ramon Cardona
- Fix Animator: Guillaume Chartier
- Fix Animator: Eric S. Degner
- Master Lighting Artist: Airton Dittz Jr.
- Fix Animator: Tsung-Yin Hsieh
- Animation: Guilherme Sauerbronn Jacinto
- Master Lighting Artist: Mitch Kopelman
- Animation: Aaron Koressel
- Animation: Bruce Kuei
- Animation: Cameron Miyasaki
- Animation: Javier Moya Alonso
- Animation: Juan Carlos Navarro Carrión
- Animation: Andreas Procopiou
- Master Lighting Artist: Jordan Rempel
- Animation: Nickolas Rosario
- Animation: Allison Rutland
- Master Lighting Artist: Vandana Reddy Sahrawat
- Animation: Brett Schulz
- Fix Animator: Stefan Schumacher
- Master Lighting Artist: David Shavers
- Software Engineer: Shalin Shodhan
- Master Lighting Artist: Michael Sparber
- Animation: Matthew Strangio
- Animation: Raphael Suter
- Animation: Jessica Torres
- Fix Animator: Alon Winterstein
- Master Lighting Artist: Maria Yershova
- Animation: Tom Zach
- Music Director: Andrew Page
- Finance: Megan Albert
- Administration: Allysa Amundson
- Administration: Meghan Benafield
- Finance: Nancy Garretson Case
- Publicist: Deborah Coleman
- Simulation & Effects Artist: Douglas Waters
- Finance: Rachel Ergas
- Administration: Heather Feng
- Finance: Kristi Gamble
- Publicist: Briana Gardner
- Finance: Timothy Glass
- Finance: Jeanie Gray
- Finance: Valerie Hathaway
- Finance: Kentaro Hinoki
- Finance: Heather D.C. Jackson
- Administration: Michelle Moretta
- Finance: Kacy Naylor
- Finance: Rosana Neciuk
- Administration: Tanya Oskanian
- Administration: Lara Pendleton
- Finance: Kristina Ruud
- Finance: Michelle Simons
- Publicist: Hasia Sroat
- Administration: Wendy Dale Tanzillo
- Finance: Shari Villarde
- Finance: Deana Walker
- Finance: Annette Wang
- Master Lighting Artist: Brian Boyd
- Master Lighting Artist: Jae Hong Kim
- Master Lighting Artist: Ken Lao
- Supervising Technical Director: Bill Wise
- Systems Administrators & Support: Ling Hsu
- Software Engineer: Shawn Neely
- Animation Fix Coordinator: Courtney Casper Kent
- Animation: Jae Hyung Kim
- Animation: Dan Nguyen
- Animation: Benjamin Su
- Finance: Kheron Jones-Kassing
- Finance: Mark Joseph
- Finance: Karen Perry
- Finance: Sue Williams
- Finance: Stephanie Pham
- Lighting Coordinator: Piper Freeman
- Lighting Artist: Andy Lin
- Master Lighting Artist: Jeremy Vickery
- Security: John Bennett
- Security: Marlon Castro
- Security: Paul Chideya
- Security: Richard Cogger
- Security: Joni Superticioso
- Set Dressing Artist: Yung Lian Frank Tai
- Fix Animator: Catherine Hang-Hicks
- Lighting Artist: Farhez Rayani
- Editorial Coordinator: Lisa Fotheringham
- Master Lighting Artist: Jonathan Pytko
- Scoring Mixer: Andrew Dudman
- Animation: Doug Frankel
- Animation: Ken Kim
- Animation: Michael Wu
- Animation: Stephen L. Wong
- Software Engineer: Jim Atkinson
- Software Engineer: Manuel Kramer
- Set Designer: Huy K. Nguyen
- Simulation & Effects Artist: Edwin Chang
- Simulation & Effects Artist: Meng Yu
- Thanks: Sandy Blaine
- Thanks: Ruth Palmer
- Thanks: Wayne Piersol
- Thanks: Deanna Savant
- Administration: Dennis ‘D.J.’ Jennings
- Administration: Bill Polson
- Administration: Marguerite Enright
- Administration: Mickayela Jade Beatty
- Animation Manager: Jaclyn Simon
- Animation: Curran W. Giddens
- Animation: Rich McKain
- Animation: Kristoff Vergne
- Legal Services: Serena Martinez
- Legal Services: Brynn Mohagen
- Legal Services: Rob Rieders
- Legal Services: C. Bart Sullivan
- Legal Services: Jody Weinberg Silverman
- Editorial Coordinator: Matt DeMartini
- Editorial Coordinator: Sarah Fernbacher
- Editorial Manager: Mari Aizawa
- Fix Animator: Michelle Ohana
- Fix Animator: Manuel Zenon Rodriguez
- Software Engineer: Joachim De Deken
- Software Engineer: Randal Lamore
- Software Engineer: Philip Rideout
- Music Programmer: Rupert Cross
- Musician: Willie Armstrong
- Musician: Kyle Stuart Howie
- Musician: Lorne MacDougall
- Musician: Kyle Warren
- Musician: Christopher Stout
- Musician: Bryn Lewis
- Musician: Neil Percy
- Musician: Matheu Watson
- Musician: Jarlath Henderson
- Post Production Assistant: Jose Rosa
- Production Office Assistant: Junn Lee
- Production Office Assistant: Samantha Jane Samuels
- Publicist: Steven Argula
- Security: Jennie Jensen
- Security: George McCloskey
- Security: Nghia Neal To
- Security: Price A. Troche Sr.
- Security: Jeffrey Worrall
- Security: Bryant Yu
- Second Film Editor: David Suther
- Set Dressing Artist: Kristen Needham
- Thanks: Iain Stewart
- Stereoscopic Coordinator: Christina F. Julian
- Systems Administrators & Support: Heidi Parmelee
- Security: Michael Phillis
- Art Department Coordinator: Corinne Cavallaro
- Set Supervisor: Derek Williams
Movie Reviews:
- Travis Bell: I enjoyed Brave but it wasn’t without a few flaws.
First of all, I never felt like there was much meat to the story. It was enjoyable sure, and had some good morals and family values but I never felt like I was invested in the main characters. Stuff just seemed to happen.
Secondly, and this isn’t as much the movies fault as perhaps the marketing that surrounded it, but it was actually a very different movie than I thought it was going to be. I discovered that it’s hard to break those pre-conceptions as I kept thinking the story was going somewhere else than it did.
Brave was at its best when it made me laugh which unfortunately, was just too seldom. For example, the entire scene where the 3 clans try to fight for Mérida’s hand was way too short!
The voice cast was very good though. Kelly Macdonald in particular, was perfect as Mérida.
All in all, Brave was good but not great. It just seems to lack the “magic” I expect from Pixar. Not their worst outing but close to it.
- Gimly: The following is a long-form review that I originally wrote in 2012.
The film in all was a relatively decent venture. Perhaps Pixar’s well deserved success is its pitfall here. Though highly enjoyable, Brave was simply not up to the standard brought forth by the likes of the Toy Story trilogy, Up or Monsters Inc. ?This movie falls more into the category of “Entertaining, acceptable, cute” instead of the higher echelons some of the studio’s past work has earned it.
Brave attempts to take the “Disney Princess” line away from its predecessors in which princesses are only good for getting themselves into trouble so that men can rescue them (ie. Snow White, Belle, etc.) or in the case of the Little Mermaid in which she is willing to almost literally walk on broken glass for a man simply because he’s pretty. And for this, we thank Brave. All that said and done however, there was one rather unfortunate side-effect of all this. I at first simply felt it was my warped interpretation, but every person whom I’ve spoken to drew the same conclusion, so perhaps not… Now, I’m sure it wasn’t intentional, but, I must say, the main character Merida… Seemed to… Have a thing for her mum. Just saying, honestly, that’s how the piece feels as it plays out.
On a less incestuous note though, stand up comic/actor Billy Connolly as Meridia’s father King Fergus is simply brilliant, and probably the highest point of the whole film. Though the animation didn’t exactly make leaps and bounds forward in comparison to anything else that’s come out in the past couple of years, it was still most certainly impressive.
Maybe if I had been part of Brave’s target audience I could have appreciated the movie more. It was most certainly good, but I wasn’t really ?blown away? by any aspect of the film whatsoever. It managed to scrape a slight “above average” but I really would have liked something more than I got, especially seeing as movies on the big screen tend to impress me more readily.
Brave’s biggest problem is that it is, in essence, forgettable. Though an entertaining 93 minutes to be sure, I can’t imagine myself hankering for a re-watch any time soon.62%
-Gimly
- r96sk: A wholehearted animated film from Disney.
‘Brave’ is very good. The Scottish vibes help a lot, but the meaningful message and superb animation are just a few of the film’s other big positives. The casting, characters and music are some too. The premise itself isn’t anything breathtakingly new, but is most certainly enjoyable to see unfold.
The cast are excellent, with my personal standouts being Kelly Macdonald (Merida) and Emma Thompson (Elinor). There are also good performances from Billy Connolly (Fergus), Robbie Coltrane (Dingwall) and Julie Walters (Witch).
It’s a fun and simple watch, one I thoroughly felt entertained by.