Brave News

TOURISM chiefs today urged the people of Scotland to get behind a campaign to have Dunnottar Castle in Aberdeenshire, which inspired Princess Merida's family home in Disney-Pixar's Brave, named as the "8th Wonder of the World."

"Brave," the Disney/Pixar film that won this year's Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, will kick off the summerlong Friday Flicks series at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, 1515 S.W. 10th.

The Marin Symphony on Sunday begins a new era in its 60-year history with its first-ever spring pops concert, an afternoon of clips and music from Pixar's 13 animated movies - from 1995's "Toy Story" to last year's Oscar-winning "Brave."

Princess Merida is a wilful girl who dreams of becoming a great archer. But when she discovers that her reckless behaviour has put both her family and her father's kingdom in peril, she is forced to put her ambitions to the test.

I am a big fan of animated films. I got my start with the movie “Bambi” and haven't looked back.

When Brave was released, parents were rightfully delighted that finally a Disney film had been made with a strong female role model who didn't need a Prince to whisk her off her feet.

Consumer watchdogs took aim at the Walt Disney Company again last week, objecting vociferously to the studio's redesign of Merida, the fiery heroine in the Oscar-winning "Brave." Parents to girls especially decried the character's sexualization, pointing out that her frizzy red hair has been tamed, her neckline dropped, her waist narrowed, her ... (more)