Brave (2012)
With the latest Pixar film opening this Friday, today kicks off a week of Pixar. And since yesterday's movie featured Disney's feisty redheaded princess, today's movie, Brave, features Pixar's feisty redheaded princess. The Movie: Brave is the 13th Pixar animated film, the first Pixar film with a female protagonist, and the first to have a female director. (That director was Brenda Chapman, who was somewhat controversially replaced during the making of the film, although she was still credited as a director as well as given the story credit.) For the most part the movie was well-received critically, though Pixar fans tend to rank it among the lesser of the Pixar films. Brave did receive the Oscar for Best Animated Film in what many believed to be an upset over Wreck-It Ralph. The protagonist of Brave is the Merida, a Scottish princess of the highland clan Dunbroch. Merida is very free-spirited and would rather be exploring and practicing archery th...