However, her mother Elinor has entirely different ideas. Preceding the film is a short film entitled La Luna, directed by Enrico Casarosa.Īll Princess Merida wants to do is ride off on Angus, her horse, shoot her bow and be as wild and free as her fiery red hair. The (controversially) film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film up against other Disney films such as Wreck-It Ralph and Frankenweenie. The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film. Brave premiered on June 10, 2012, at the Seattle International Film Festival, and was released in North America on June 22, 2012, to both positive reviews and box office success. After consulting a witch for help, Merida accidentally curses her mother and is forced to undo the spell herself before it is too late. In the film, set in the Scottish Highlands during the Medieval period, a skilled archer named Merida defies an age-old custom, causing chaos in her kingdom and angering her mother, Elinor. It is the first film to use the Dolby Atmos sound format.

To make the most complex visuals possible, Pixar completely rewrote their animation system for the first time in 25 years. The film's voice cast features Kelly Macdonald, Julie Walters, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson, and Robbie Coltrane. It was written by Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell, Brenda Chapman, and Irene Mecchi, and directed by Andrews and Chapman and co-directed by Purcell. English Brave is a 2012 American 3D CGI computer-animated adventure fantasy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

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