It’s her birthday, and the gift that delights Merida is not a doll or a toy, but a bow. Merida’s independent spirit is obvious from the moment we meet her as a tiny girl living centuries ago in the Scottish Highlands. “There’s not someone else who’s going to rescue her and fix it all for her.” “She’s much more relatable,” said producer Katherine Sarafian, who talked by phone to KidsPost about the movie, which opens Friday. (Pixar is the studio that created other movies including “ Toy Story,” “ Cars” and “ The Incredibles.”) She’s Pixar’s first heroine (a female hero), and the movie’s creators wanted her to be different. The star of the new animated movie “ Brave” isn’t a Disney princess.
Movie princesses usually wear puffy dresses, have perfect hair and wait around for Prince Charming to save them from an evil witch.