Pixar’s first foray into storytelling with a female protagonist ended up being funny, enchanting, and wholly satisfying. If you didn’t catch Merida, the fiery redheaded heroine in Brave, when she made ...

“Our fate lives within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it,” Merida valiantly proclaims in Walt Disney’s 2012 Pixar-animated film Brave. But Merida’s bold notions on fate fell short this ...

Brave is a series of firsts for Pixar. The biggest first is that this is the studio's first film made with princess power. Her name is Merida, and she is a Scottish lass with a mind as bright as her ...

Merida, from the animated movie Brave, has just been inducted into the pantheon of Disney Princesses. As the daughter of a king and the star of a Disney/Pixar movie, she does seem like an obvious ...

Fans of the more scrappy, less skinny Merida were incensed: So far 168,881 people have signed a Change.org petition asking Disney CEO Robert Iger to ditch the new version. “By making her skinnier, ...

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