Finally Watching BRAVE and I HAD NO IDEA it was gonna make me CRY?! *Commentary/Reaction*

Fun fact: Pixar had to make a whole new code just to animate Merida's curly red locks for this movie and it's CHANGED the game of animating hair ever since. Sully's fur in Monsters Inc. was a similar story.

Fun fact- bows have what's called "draw weight" which is what determines how much force is needed to pull them back, and it can come in a really wide range. Beginner bows usually have a draw weight of 20-30lbs, while the English longbow, probably the most iconic heavy drawn bows, had a draw weight of 150-180lbs, the strain of which changed the archer's body to the point where archeologists can tell whether or not someone used it just by their bones.

Merida fighting her father, who is considered one of the strongest, to protect her mother, is my favorite part of this whole movie.

That one suitor is in fact speaking in English, it’s just an extreme Scottish dialect, actually watched a Scottish reactor once be able to translate what that guy was actually saying 😭😭

This movie is packed with Harry Potter Actors: Queen: played by the fantastic Emma Thompson (Trelawney) Merida: Kelly MacDonald (The Grey Lady) The Witch: Julie Walters (Mrs Weasley) Lord Dingwall: Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) Martin the Door Guard: Patrick Doyle (Composer for Goblet of Fire)

Most underrated Pixar movie ever, dosen't deserve all the hate and deserved Best Animated Feature over Wreck It Ralph. It's about time Pixar told a mother and daughter story and the second sunrise scene hits me in the feels every time😭🐻🌄!

For this film, Pixar designed 3 original tartan patterns for Clans DunBroch, Dingwall, and MacGuffin (they also got permission from Clan Mackintosh to use the real tartan of that clan for Clan Macintosh) and then had them registered in the Scottish National Tartan Registry, despite protest from at least one Scottish politician who said that this wasn't what the registry was for. Kevin McKidd voices both Lord MacGuffin and Young MacGuffin. McKidd grew up in Elgin and used a variation of the Doric dialect for Young MacGuffin. Doric is also known as Northeast Scots, Scots being the Scottish dialect of English.

The original title of this during production was "The Bear and the Bow," but the filmmakers felt no one would know what that meant and would not go to see it.

I love this film so much. It's often cited as one of Pixar and even Disney's worst. Honestly, I think its one of the best from either studio. And I could watch just Merida's hair for hours. Even now it's amazing.

And yes, we did "used to" have bears in Alba (scotland) here, along with wolves and lynx... There is currently a program of reintroduction, along with trying to "rewilde" parts of the country, as well as trying to stop the decline of the wildcat, red squrrels, and golden eagle populations. The otters and beavers have been doing a lot better though. Also, yes, we would literally fight over anything, war over anything, because what-esle is there? However, if there were anyone outside trying to take over we'd drop everything, to go fight the new people and once that's done we'd pick right up where we left off with each other.

Oh this is a classic and you can tell how much love and thought the animators put into her archery skill scenes. Also Touch the sky is a classic song

The Witch's warning "Mend the bond torn my pride", I felt had four parts to it, all of which Meirda had to deal with. The obvious ones were the tapestry, and the bond between her and her Mother. But there were two others as well. Her actions tore a rift between the four clans and almost started a war over it, because she shamed them and insulted them by refusing to pick a suiter after they were, invited there by the king for that very reason. And the last one was the rift between the four kingdoms by the prince that became Mor'du. It's possible that the four clans were, originally, the four kingdoms, and that Mor'du is an ancestor of hers, since their kingdom was so close. So Meirda was releasing Mor'du from his torment. Also, that tapestry would have been horrendously, expensive. They were hand made and embroidered. Based on the shine, there was gold and silver thread woven through it, and that would have taken most of a year to make. Tapestries like that were used in castles to cover the cold stone walls and keep rooms warmer, because stone walls just sucked up heat. That rend Meirda made with her sword wouldn't have been able to be, perfectly, repaired easily, if at all

"If I had a nickel for each time Disney did a mother-daughter movie where the mother turns into a bear like creature as a result of her rebellious daughter medalling in magic, I’d have two Nickles, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice."

Brave is such an underrated movie, I have loved it ever since I first saw it in theaters with my mom and older sister back in 2009 when I was 9.

Brave is one of my FAVORITE Pixar movies!!! I'm so happy that you are reacting to it 😁

Elenora was actually based off a real queen. I forget the name but there was a time the king was away so the enemy decided to invade. she never picked up a sword but she managed to win the war. one attempt of breaking in the castle was they catapulted a huge bolder thing into the castle. the queen basically said clean the mess it made and save it for later. When the enemy realized they had to take special measures they built this thing(I forget what it was called so we will call it a tower ladder on wheels) as they wheeled that thing up to the castle and began climbing up, the queen had them roll out the boulder the enemy catapulted earlier and just dropped it down onto their ladder thing smashing it and literally they gave up after that and ran home.

The witch in the cabin has a key role in the Pixar Theory, the belief that all Pixar movies are connected and on the same timeline. TLDR: She's a time traveling future version of Boo from Monsters Inc.

First we had Brave, then we had Turning Red. Both of them are top tier on my list as far as I’m concerned.

Fun fact: This movie has been rated by archery experts as one of the most accurate representations of archery. In order to shoot, you need to be able to move so Merida ripping the dress to move is definitely correct. The fact that Merida keeps all her shots consistent and she has less influence over the shot definitely serves accurate because Archery is about keeping everything nice and simple and repeat the shot time and time again. The final arrow shot where the arrow goes through another is called a Robinhood. Also on the close up of Merida shooting, you can see her hand relaxes and flows back without any force because that is how you are suppose to get a good shot. If you open your hand, that is not gonna get a good shot. The slow motion is very accurate as well because arrows travel like a wet noodle, not straight.

Your editor always does a very good job. I especially liked when he put your face on the will-o'-the-wisp. Nice touch!