Brave

Princess Merida, the daughter of a Scottish king, is a tomboy at heart, even though she is raised as a princess. When she's a teenager, she's presented with a host of suitors to marry her, but she insists on walking her own path in life. Meanwhile, a terrible curse befalls her mother, and Merida must undo the spell with her skills in archery.

Following a tradition that Pixar set with A Bug's Life, Brave 3D is preceded by a short animation film, La Luna. In this, a young boy accompanies his father and grandfather on a boat to the middle of a lake, waits for the moon to rise, and then cleans it (the moon) of all the stars that have crashed into it. As far as Pixar shorts go, this one is by far the most poetic, surreal, and fascinating.

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of Brave, which, at 93 minutes, seems much longer than it actually is. Merida (Kelly MacDonald) is a Scottish princess, with a perfect life and an ....