The Queen, her mother (Emma Thompson), tries to ... characters as archetypes of either good or evil, "Brave" offers something different. Merida may have problems with Mom, but the audience sees ...

The main problem is that Merida craves adventure but "Brave" limits her to mother-daughter psychodrama. She avoids marriage by trouncing various suitors at archery ("I'll be shooting for my own ...

Merida, with her wild red hair, chafes at the way her life is ... As I’ve gotten older, though, I understand more. More recently, the mother-daughter relationship in “Brave” has stuck out to me as the ...

Also, that entire first scene of Merida on her horse, with “Touch The Sky ... biased because I watched this movie with my own mother, but Brave is a great time with family.

That’s not the case with Brave and Moana ... people or those close to them. Merida finds out that a selfish spell she gets involved in has turned her mother into a bear. She needs to risk ...

Brave ended with Merida finding satisfaction in her family life, having earned her mother's respect. There is no easy way to continue a story that concludes with such finality. Pixar's upcoming ...