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It is set in medieval Scotland, where Merida has just come of age and her mother Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson) is preparing to marry her off to any of three candidates from the other clans. The animation is beautiful, but the story is staid.

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She’s talking about the nature of the character, but it is also true that the movie itself, while nowhere near the low point of last summer’s Cars 2, doesn’t dazzle. I’m grateful, but she’d be the go-to person on the topic of princesses regardless.) (Full disclosure: Orenstein and I were once in a writing group together, and she also blurbed a book I wrote. “It’s a failure of imagination,” says writer Peggy Orenstein, author of the best-selling Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture. I’m glad it finally got there, but I would have preferred that the studio’s groundbreaking moment had involved something actually groundbreaking. It has been 17 years since the studio released its first movie, Toy Story, an awfully long time to get around to a female lead.

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Pixar is full of brilliant, flexible minds, the kind that made credible heroes out of a stuffed Wild West sheriff, an assortment of worker-bee types, including an ant and a robot, and a rat that dreamed of creating haute cuisine. ( MORE: Brave Old Worlds: Does Pixar Have a Problem with Stereotypes?) She’s a rebellious tomboy, but her concerns are still limited to those of a princess, the biggest of which remains, as ever, marriage. But depressingly, she’s a princess, the most traditional role for female characters in children’s fictions. Merida is strong, capable and courageous. Brenda Chapman (The Prince of Egypt) was the director of Brave, until she was replaced in the last 18 months of production by Mark Andrews, and the halfway-there aspect of that triumph serves as an apt metaphor for Pixar’s halfway embrace of female empowerment within the text of Brave. But Pixar has never made a girl the lead until now, just as it’s never had a woman direct one of its films until now. E and ant princess Atta in A Bug’s Life.The animation giant has featured female characters in its movies, including adorable Boo in Monsters, Inc., daffy Dory in Finding Nemo, feisty chef Colette in Ratatouille, the clever robot Eve in WALL She’d rather ride her horse, drink from waterfalls and wield her bow and arrow, like a medieval Katniss. It’s about a flame-haired princess named Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) who doesn’t want to get married.

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