It also resembles the robust Viking world of lovably grumpy clan chiefs and wimpy kids in another DreamWorks animation, How to Train Your Dragon. The fantasy Highland setting is effectively extrapolated from the Scottish accent Mike Myers put on back in 2001 playing the curmudgeonly Shrek in the DreamWorks animation, occupying very much the same sort of landscape. Brave has a certain inoffensive charm, sometimes, but it is often bafflingly uninteresting as a story. Even the short film that precedes the feature – traditionally a tiny delicious treat in any Pixar programme – is treacly and dull. It feels like a standard issue super-sophisticated Pixar movie with the super-sophistication removed. It is eerily bland, with none of the zingingly funny lines and smart self-awareness we've come to expect from Pixar yet it doesn't obviously appear to be pitched at very young kids, either, and doesn't quite have the necessary unforced simplicity. It looks as if their script has been reworked pretty often, though perhaps not quite often enough. Brave is written and directed by Mark Andrews, one-time story supervisor on Ratatouille and The Incredibles, and Brenda Chapman, director of The Prince of Egypt. Also figuring into Mérida’s quest - and serving as comic relief - are the kingdom’s three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin, the surly Lord Macintosh, and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall.T his animated family movie – set in the olden dayes of Scotland – gives us a worrying glimpse of the Disney/Pixar 'ideas' fuel gauge, whose needle is twitching further and further leftward towards the 'E'.

In an attempt to set things right, Mérida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman and is granted an ill-fated wish. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Mérida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor.

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