Fun fact: They 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.
@@lol-ot4pn Moana and Encanto were basically part 3 and 4 of them developing the hair programming. Started way back with Tangled and then this movie was when the main breakthrough happened. It’s been a. Continuous process tho
same here I love the movie, maybe it's hated because it's one of the first of its kind that's not the usual trope of "damsel in distress" as disney princesses weren't usually the *independent-woman-who-doesnt-need-a-man* type
@@Abyrae because of the bear aspect when the mom changes to a bear and then the movie just turns into brother bear 🐻 and that’s why people hate it but for me personally I just think it’s a okay Pixar film could have been better
@@hassansulaiman3848 But Brother Bear and Brave only share two things in common, storywise: 1) the main character learning to take responsibility for their mistake, and 2) someone turning into a bear. Other than those two points, the story of each movie is different. It'd be like saying Harry Potter and Doctor Strange are the same story because they are both wizards that need to go to a magic school to learn to control their power, and they both have a magic cape. 🤦♀️
Fun Fact for ya, Maudie is a wet nurse meaning when the queen has a baby it was seen as beneath her to breastfeed (or if she simply couldn't/ didn't want to, different cultures) and she was busy with running a household (especially a castle) and didn't have time for the daily care of a baby so a wet nurse was the one who would take care of the daily child rearing
I'm so glad someone brought this up. People have forgotten that back in the day, "nurses" were called that because they actually nursed the children during infancy. The nurse in Romeo and Juliet is a prime example. She is often cast as an old woman, but in reality, she had to have been younger, because she breastfed Juliet, who is only 13 in the play.
It would have been especially necessary here, with three infants. It's entirely possible that the queen couldn't produce enough milk to feed all of them simultaneously.
Breastfeeding also delayed fertility. As a queen your main job was to produce preferably sons as frequently as possible as child mortality was so high. A wetnurse freed up the queen for pregnancy.
9:2418:2527:55 He’s speaking Doric. The actor was so happy to put some authentic native dialect there when the directors wanted him to speak gibberish. It was his hometown language and his grandfather spoke it.
It's funny cus the way they play it off makes it sound like gibberish, but when you know what he's actually saying you can hear it through that accent thicker than that bois mother proly was
My little Irish grandmother used to tell me the Celtic fable "The Bear and the Bow" when I was little. When this movie came out, I was in tears before the intro even started! They did an amazing job on this one.
Merida and Mulan are my favourite disney princesses. Brave is genuinely such an underrated movie, it's nice to see it hit someone else just as hard as it hits me.
a few years ago, I watched a girl who is Scottish do a reaction video of Brave, and she actually knew what the one boy was saying when no one else did! he was speaking "English" but it was with Scottish slang with his heavy accent.
Definitely agree about turning red and periods. Periods need to be normalized more instead of being seen as a ‘dirty little secret’. Some places in the world women and girls are seen as ‘dirty’ when she’s having her period which is just very backwards. And there are some guys who would balk at the suggestion of getting pads or tampons for their partner or daughter. But thankfully there are other men who just view it as a medical necessity and don’t think women “can just hold it in”.
My man, never be ashamed of emotion. The fact that a story can make you well up, can make you tear open that wellspring of empathy means that you have a heart. That you can relate to your fellow man. It means that you are Human! Never be ashamed to be human...those that don't feel another's pain, that can't express sympathy, regret, or love...those people should feel shame. They sold the greatest gift we were given, gave it away as if it were so much trash...they sold their own Humanity. So you keep on singing, keep on dancing, keep on screaming, and let the tears flow like the waves of the ocean!
The beginning always gets me. Her Husband jumps in front of that bear and Elanora grabs up her kid and jumps on that horse so fast , and she has to take off on the horse having to leave her Husband behind to save their child. You know that's a terrible choice to make, but she makes it decisively. That's how you know Elanora may be a lady, but she is a strong woman. And her husband is a beast too. I love this couple. Relationship goals.
I lost my mom not too long before this movie first came out. I had a lump in my throat throughout most of it, but at the end when Merida is crying "I want you back" OMG I just started bawling in the movie theater!
I have a really close relationship with my mom and we went to the movie theater together to see this movie . We were bawling hugging each other. I may not remember most of the movies that I went with her as a kid but I will forever remember this one. I’m sure she was there with you in that moment when you saw this close to your heart. You’re brave ❤
Finally someone who also cried at the ending part when we thought her mother was gone. That part always has me bawling. Especially because of the music.
It's the fact Merida's mom doesn't break out of her restraints until her daughter is about to be hurt. Not even when she herself was about to DIE. That momma bear instinct came out the moment her baby was in trouble
9:26 Young MacGuffin is speaking Doric - it's an actual dialect from Scotland. The voice actor Kevin McKidd (who also voices Lord MacGuffin) has relatives in the area who have that accent. It turns out he said: "If he were a wee bit closer I could lob ma caber at him, ya ken?" Caber tossing is a game in the Highland Games - lifting a long heavy log (caber) and seeing how far you can throw it. "Ma" meaning "my", "ya ken?" meaning "you know". Later he says "It's just nae fair making us fight for the hand o'a quain who doesnae want a bit of it, ken?" meaning "it's just hot fair making us fight for the hand of a girl who doesn't want a bit of it, you know?"
Angus is 10/10 the best horse friend and the goodest boy... sticks with her even though he's terrified. Also HIS ANIMATION IS STELLAR. I love this movie, thanks for your honest and thoughtful reaction!
33:19 😢awww❤ I got teary-eyed when merida's mom basically just snapped when she realized another bear was going to hurt her. It made me think about mama
This movie wasn't liked by critics because it didn't feel like a Pixar movie. Then on top of that the trailers at the time didn't really express what the movie was really about. Which in all honestly it doesn't feel like a PIxar movie which i think is great. It feels like a good mix of Disney and Pixar. It also broke the Pixar formula which felt nice. The story is fun and well rounded, The visuals are beautiful, the music has perfect scores for a non musical movie, the jokes and the scares hit at the right time. You just can't make "Critics" happy. This will always be a great movie.
I love that you immediately made the connection between HTTYD and Brave! I was a big Tumblr girlie back in the day, and there was this pretty big crossover fandom between Tangled, Brave, Rise of the Guardians and How to Train Your Dragon called Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons (please don't judge us, we were teens having fun). One of the big ships coming out of that fandom was actually Hiccup and Merida, which I enjoyed myself, so it made my inner 16 year old giggle when you immediately mentioned HTTYD
@@lenibeni7421 they were, but I was already a bit disconnected from the fandom at that point and I never liked that addition anyway since it made an already bloated cast feel overwhelming and I felt that Anna and Elsa had a different energy than the rest, so it’s not something I think about
"I would think that the sons would turn into something different." If you remember, the witch's house, everything she carved was bears. She's got a bit of a fixation. Lol.
This is one of my favourite films, period. The lullaby that Elinor sings to Merida in that flashback scene when they're out in the rain the night they first flee the castle, that song is sung in Scottish Gaelic and was the first (and might still be only) case of a Disney Princess singing in her native language; a few others feature native languages in the film, such as Moana, though the princesses themselves don't sing in the language themselves. I haven't seen some of the newer ones so it may have changed, so please feel free to correct me, anyone, but it's still the first case of a Disney princess singing in her native language! In English, the song is called Noble Maiden Fair and was written just for this film.
Most of us when we’ve been locked in for a long time and told what to do and who to be , sometimes as ppl growing , it’s not that we wanna break that bond or intentionally do , it’s that most of us have been held back even by those we love most , we are appreciative of everything they do , but sometimes we as humans just wanna navigate and see if we can manage on our own without the need of having to be at our parents side for everything or in most cases ppl have been treated indifferently by there own families and sometimes just breaking away helps us heal and most of all grow ❤️
I absolutely love this movie. it was my older daughter's favorite when she was younger and she got to meet her at Disney World just walking around the park and we saw her and my daughter was so star struck and happy. The cutest pictures when she was itty bitty.
Im from scotland and in scotland right now 🏴😊 This was amazing! The scenery is very good and accurate and they did quite a good job historically speaking plus the music is great. Most of the voice actors are beloved scottish actors and the dad is the legend comedian billy connelly 😊 i dont know why so many people didnt like it maybe because there was quite a lot of scottish humour they didnt get but i love it one of my fav animated movies and my kids love it too. The lad that nobody can understand was voiced by kevin mckidd and he played the blonde dad and son. I always took it to be kind of an Aberdeen strong accent or at least somewhere up the top of scotland but i can understand most of what he is saying not everything though its still strong even for me 😂 really glad you enjoyed it and it gets me everytime at the end too still so emotional! 🥹❤️
The child who we can't understand is actually speaking Doric a real language dielect of Scotland. hes second line is litterally: "It's just not fair making us fight for the hand of the girl that doesn't want any part of it. You know?"
This story is so beautiful...my mom and I had a very complicated relationship (she passed away a few years ago), but my daughter and I are incredibly close. She has me saved as, "Mama Bear" in her phone, because she knows I'm super chill about pretty much everything, but no one, and I mean no one, steps up to my kid. She's saved as "Baby bear" in my phone ❤
I just happened to take a guided trip through Scotland a couple of years after Brave was released. A mother/daughter duo were on the trip, and it turns out their son/brother works for Pixar and helped write the code for Merida’s hair. (They had proof.) it was so cool to talk to them about the making of this movie while in Scotland. 🏴
I have Scottish ancestry on my mother's side of the family. My mom and I are really close so this movie with the Scottish culture and the mother daughter relationship is a favorite of ours to watch together.
Merida's hair actually took so mucj work. It changed the entire way pixar and others animated hair as a whole. They rigged and animated each and every strand of hair individually.
This is one of my TOP favorite “princess” movies. I say that in quotations because Merida is not your stereotypical princess. Tangled is tied with Brave for me as best princess movies. However, I definitely cannot say I like Brave more than HTTYD. Maybe equally, but not more. Excited to watch this reaction! Thank you sharing it with us!🫶🏻
@@JustCallmeMJ It's fine but it's not a great movie mostly due to the whole bear thing. That's where it loses a lot of people and potential that it had to be great. If you want to know why a lot of people dislike it (including me) i'd recommend watching *Brave was a Disappointment* by eliquorice. Bit of a long video but it's honestly really good
Haggis is sheep's stomach stuffed with a mix of its heart, liver, and lungs. Seasoned with salt, minced onions, oatmeal, suet, and mixed with stock. LoL
"I want to go to this festival". In most places in the US and Canada you can find Highland Games at some point throughout the year. There's usually live music, pipe bands, Highland dance competitions, sheepdog trials, and sport competitions like the caber toss, hammer throw. Centuries ago clans used the sport competitions to determine who would be the chieftan's bodyguards.
It's so oddly refreshing to see a man, specifically a black man, be able to express and show emotion so openly. I hate how emotions are so vilified amongst male society. Everyone has them. It doesn't matter what's between your legs.
i agree, they are seen as weak. Having older brothers and being in a hispanic household and they are meant to be all strong and not show an inch of weakness its so sad, ill be damned if my potential future kids be seen as weak just because they are showing their emotions.
The first time I saw this movie it made me love Scotland my favorite contry I like how they showed the culture.. and all the scenes and backgrounds of the movie are fantastic, I will never understand why it received so much hate.😂
My love of this movie is that it feels more like feminism done right. A realistic issue between a mother that is old school and a daughter that believes otherwise. Clever writing like her father never believing in magic and is willing to believe his daughter went crazy than the ounce of belief that she was right. Overall it is a very well done movie and the feelings that Mell had is well justified. Especially when all hope is lost to her and she says how she feels.
And it didn't fall into the trap of making Merida's character infallible. She was forced to grow, acknowledge that while she was right to be mad, her actions still had consequences, had to humble herself and couldn't solve everything on her own.
Watching from Scotland 🏴 and I LOVED this reaction to Brave🫶🏻The voiceover to dad is the Scottish national treasure that is Sir Billy Connolly♥️Merida is voiced by Kelly McDonald, another national treasure here in Scotland. Brave is an amazing animation and when I first seen this it reminded me of my childhood in Edinburgh. Walking Arthur’s Seat and searching for Wisps with my mother🫶🏻♥️Great reaction 🫶🏻♥️🏴
Brave doesn't follow the traditional Pixar formula and that ended up giving the execs cold feet. The original director of the fildm, Brenda Chapman, was removed and replaced with Mark Andrews who changed the ending of the film.
fun fact , in the middle ages a princess was expected to learn how to lead an army so that as queen she could defend the kingdom from invasion while her husband was off doing king shit
This movie is one of my favorite Pixar films of all time because of the Celtic music and how they understand Fate, and that it highlights the relationship between a Girl and her mother and how the burden our parents sometimes put on us to be just like, if not Better version of them instead of being the best version of ourselves. Merida at first sees it as Her mom Wants her to be just like her (well I'm not going to be like you) when her mom is trying to teach her how to handle the Pressures of being a "princess" because she's the Heir to her family 's "Throne" but her mom thinks there's only one way to be a Princess/Queen.
This, Moana, and Coco make me cry every time. These, imo, are some of the best Disney movies ever. Better than any of the ones before or after. Again, imo.
Moana makes me cry. Brave makes me cry. Coco makes me bawl my eyes out. My mother passed 2/22/22 from dementia, so the scene where Mama Coco starts singing, just instantly KILLS me, every single time, no matter what.
Damn got me crying and shi damnnn Mello we both cried at the same damn time... Every time when Disney plays this movie on Disney Channel, It really makes me cry. 😁😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I saw this movie in theaters with my mom when it came out. For the entire movie she glanced and smiled at me . She saw Merida in me, but my mom and have an amazing relationship so she never tried to change that part of me that's independent , wild and spontaneous. Im so appreciative of that because of lot of people tried to change me as a little girl and its scared me a little. But the older I get the more I don't care. SO that's why I love this movie because she reminds me to be myself always.
Brave makes me so frustrated because when you hear about the original plans for the movie, it was going to be much more dialed in on the Mother/Daughter relationship and how both of them are strong in their own way, how neither is particularly wrong for her world view and instead they learn to respect one another. But then the original director got canned and the dude who replaced her decided it needed to be the bear movie.
24:43 my mom's been taking care of my grandma since she had her stroke in February and it's been very difficult to watch her decline .... She's still the strongest woman I know ❤
10:19 I wouldnt say this was the movie that started all the "woke" stuff cause I remember watching this movie when I was younger and I loved the whole daughter/mother relationship rather than thinking about "men strong women weak" type shi
there have been strong female characters since the 90s, people are just whiny and have too much free time. I remember my grandparents used to collect articles back then about BS like how mulan and timon from the lion king were trying to indoctrinate kids into being gay lmao
You're right, Merida was a 16 year old girl who didn't want to be married. Not because she believed she didn't need a man but because she was a child and didn't want to be married at such a young age.
@@chloejoyhenry3137 it's not a thing, so it never started. if you mean when did production companies stop putting effort into their movies cuz they wanted to make bigger profits? in the mid to late 10s.
Mel I see you ❤ I cry that much too watching Disney and Pixar movies , they are so heartwarming my heart just can’t take it , it spills out my eyes every time ‼️
I adored this movie growing up!! The setting, the archery, Merida's hair!! I found out recently that I have Scottish heritage!! Passed down from my grandfather! 🥰💚
I love this movie, my family has deep Scottish/Irish roots. I am directly related to a few well known Scottish people. The cravings on the stones in the beginning are Pictish (I also come from deep rooted pictish ancestry) not much is known about them. All that's left are some carvings that archeologists still haven't been able to really figure out. We know that they were very tough. So tough that even the Romans who were feared by many wouldn't mess with them. They were known to be covered head to toe in blue paint or tattoos and were naked with the exception of a few chains around their necks, waist and limbs. We dont know where they went but I think they were breed/cultured out and a lot of them just let go of who they were and it was forgotten. Scottish is beautiful and I hope to go there one day and visit the house of my namesake Sorbie tower.
8:08 I think she's roughly 16. But back then girls could get married off when they were as young as 12 - so long as they'd "bled" meaning had their period, because that meant that they were able to have children. Henry the 8th, his grandmother Margaret Beaufort was married off to Edmund Tudor when she was 12, and at age 13 was a heavily pregnant widow. Edmund was 25 when she married him.
This is me and my mothers favorite Pixar movie. We really bonded and related to this movie in our own relationship. It shows the mother and daughter dynamic and how we can end up hurting each other but we have to mend our bond because we can be misunderstood.
One of the most underrated Disney movies of all time . I love everything about this movie,it is so amazing. I don't understand why most don't like this movie. Meridia is one of the best characters in Disney history
I love this movie so much ♥️♥️♥️. Out of all the Disney princesses, it’s nice to see one center around familial relationships. I relate to Merida a lot especially her dynamic with her mom. The “listen” speech spoke to me in so many levels. Top notch movie.
I've always loved this movie because Merida looks exactly like my mom, they both have the curly, untamable, fiery red hair and seeing a main character that looks like my mom and represents Scottish culture so well meant the world to me. (my mom's side of the family is Scottish). Now that I'm older I still love this movie and can see that my mom sees me as her own Merida. I cannot properly put into words just how much this movie meant to me then and still does now, but it will always have a special place in my heart.
I love this movie for the ironic things before seeing it in theatres as a kid. I saw it with my mother, I'm Scottish and I had a multitude of teddy bears.
First time watching with you, and a great movie. As Swartszenegger said, "I'll be back." I lived in Scotland, and that un-understandable speech is an actual Scottish dialect.
I was fortunate to save up and visit scotland on a solo trip last month and it is amazing. The scenery, especially the highlands were captured well in this movie. Each time i see this i get the urge to give my mum a hug.
All started with a vacation. Pixarbl people got to see just how incredibly beautiful Scotland was, and had to make a movie for it, and get paid to come back no less. Great film, universal message, too. Love it
35:00 Somehow I always got the feeling that when she was young Elinor was the best horsewoman in the four clans. And that she still is - as she's about to prove to Merida.
This is one of my favorite kid's movies across the board. It's got great animation, visuals, and meaning, plus dope accents. My daughter loves it, too, though nothing will ever compete with Tangled for her. Loved your reaction, man!
I love how merida was the first princess to not be married or stay single. Plus when i would watch this when i was younger my mom told me that she would tell me to watch brave because to show that women can do anything and thats just so amazing.
I have zero idea why this movie doesn't get more respect or the play that it deserves. I personally think between the story, the final fight between the bears, the animation, the Scottish accents, and the music, this is one of the better Pixar movies that they've produced.
It’s def my fav Disney Princess movie ever. She’s definitely the most confident, listens to the beat of her own drums rather than anyone else’s and brave. (Other than Mulan, she’s definitely all of those as well) And she makes me so proud to have Scottish heritage in me every time I watch it. 😂🩷
Omg!! So happy you did this movie. Since I was a child Merida has literally been my favorite Disney princess!! She’s literally is the only princess that never had help from a man. Like she literally fought against her dad! She has big bushy curls! She, instead of losing her parents in some tragic way or anything bad like that, mended the bond (placed that 100% on purpose 😂) with her mother. This is the BEST movie for little girls and for them to feel like they can be badass without the help of a man. Bonus! She didn’t end up in a relationship at the end of the movie!
Fun fact that accent is real by the way the person that you couldn’t understand it’s like some sort of Gaelic accent deeepp deep Irish that’s English but just so mixed up because of the accent
Yes yes yes, we love Scottish music and accent. I love the song of them catching fishes in the river. And yes, watching it again n again still cry rivers at the end scene when the sun rise and mom still in bear form.
As a Scottish person I fucking love this movie The slag, accents, myths, tradition and history in it makes me really happy to see it on screen. The festival they were at is actually still a thing to this day
Well can you blame them? We see the bear launching to bite and it cuts away to the title of the movie. Pretty classic way to show a parent dying without seeing it on screen.
So Brave changed the game for future Disney and Pixar movies. Aside from the hair (which they had to create a whole new system for), Merida was the first Disney princess to have a realistic body. Where her waist wasn't super skinny and she actually looked like she got some muscle on her body. She's also the first Disney Princess to not have a love interest and the first to have a voice actress that was ethnically correct. Since Merida is Scottish, she should have a Scottish accent. But Disney always went for only American actors and they just tried to imitate accents; sometimes pretty badly. But Merida's voice actress is actually from Scotland so she's the first to be voiced by someone she's supposed to represent.
This is probably one of my favorite Pixar movies - if not my favorite by at least a little bit! Nothing against Turning Red, but the mother/daughter relationship in this hit so much harder with my relationship with my mom. Probably because she wasn't really around enough for us to have the relationship the mother/daughter had in that movie. I never understood why people dislike it as much as they do - it's such a beautiful movie.
My 4 little cousins were all you get and around the same age. Man when I tell you for about 3 months after this movie came out ALL we ever heard was "feast your eyes" in a bad Scottish accent, while getting mooned because they kept doing that. They thought it was the epitome of comedy 😂
So glad you reacted to this one!! It's so beautiful and heartwarming. And I love how there is a love story, but not a romantic one. Please check out Storks! Not Pixar, but so good and underrated.
Fun fact: They 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.
I believe it was 2 different code sets/engines, not just one. It’s wild
Im not sure but didnt a similar thing happen to moana also?
@@lol-ot4pn Moana and Encanto were basically part 3 and 4 of them developing the hair programming. Started way back with Tangled and then this movie was when the main breakthrough happened. It’s been a. Continuous process tho
Fun fact: I’m your 100th like! Also i did NOT know that till now, thanks! :)
The fact that I said this exact thing to myself when he mentioned it
Fun fact, this movie is actually considered one of the most hated Pixar movies by TH-cam critics, I personally like it lol
I really don't get the hate this movie gets. It's also one of my favourite Pixar movies.
Right? I love this movie ^_^
same here I love the movie, maybe it's hated because it's one of the first of its kind that's not the usual trope of "damsel in distress" as disney princesses weren't usually the *independent-woman-who-doesnt-need-a-man* type
@@Abyrae because of the bear aspect when the mom changes to a bear and then the movie just turns into brother bear 🐻 and that’s why people hate it but for me personally I just think it’s a okay Pixar film could have been better
@@hassansulaiman3848 But Brother Bear and Brave only share two things in common, storywise: 1) the main character learning to take responsibility for their mistake, and 2) someone turning into a bear. Other than those two points, the story of each movie is different. It'd be like saying Harry Potter and Doctor Strange are the same story because they are both wizards that need to go to a magic school to learn to control their power, and they both have a magic cape. 🤦♀️
Fun Fact for ya, Maudie is a wet nurse meaning when the queen has a baby it was seen as beneath her to breastfeed (or if she simply couldn't/ didn't want to, different cultures) and she was busy with running a household (especially a castle) and didn't have time for the daily care of a baby so a wet nurse was the one who would take care of the daily child rearing
I'm so glad someone brought this up. People have forgotten that back in the day, "nurses" were called that because they actually nursed the children during infancy. The nurse in Romeo and Juliet is a prime example. She is often cast as an old woman, but in reality, she had to have been younger, because she breastfed Juliet, who is only 13 in the play.
It would have been especially necessary here, with three infants. It's entirely possible that the queen couldn't produce enough milk to feed all of them simultaneously.
This makes so much sense!!
Breastfeeding also delayed fertility. As a queen your main job was to produce preferably sons as frequently as possible as child mortality was so high. A wetnurse freed up the queen for pregnancy.
And nursing someone else’s triplets had to suck!
9:24 18:25 27:55 He’s speaking Doric. The actor was so happy to put some authentic native dialect there when the directors wanted him to speak gibberish. It was his hometown language and his grandfather spoke it.
It's funny cus the way they play it off makes it sound like gibberish, but when you know what he's actually saying you can hear it through that accent thicker than that bois mother proly was
My little Irish grandmother used to tell me the Celtic fable "The Bear and the Bow" when I was little. When this movie came out, I was in tears before the intro even started! They did an amazing job on this one.
so the movie is based/inspired by a story?
@@z2ynyes it’s heavily inspired by Celtic folklore !
Merida and Mulan are my favourite disney princesses. Brave is genuinely such an underrated movie, it's nice to see it hit someone else just as hard as it hits me.
They are my favorite as well.
Just wanted to say the animated Mulan movie. The live action was just embarrassing and a total movie against the original. So sad 😔
@@MickeyMo600 well the original was closer to the traditional story thus being more respectful to Chinese history/culture.
@@silverstar1178 Yeah
Same I love strong women. 😊
that scene where merida goes sword to sword with her dad to protect her mom is my favorite and makes me tear up every time
a few years ago, I watched a girl who is Scottish do a reaction video of Brave, and she actually knew what the one boy was saying when no one else did! he was speaking "English" but it was with Scottish slang with his heavy accent.
yes! it's a real dialect. once someone pointed out what he's saying I could hear it but before that it just sounded like gibberish lol
He's speaking Doric, it's a Scottish dialect. It's not English with slang as whilst there are words in common, Doric has different words too.
@@mortisrat thanks for the clarification on that.
I wonder if it was the same woman who translated Merida's lines in Wreck It Ralph 2?
@@okumabear I think I watched that video too, from Wee Scottish Lass?
Definitely agree about turning red and periods. Periods need to be normalized more instead of being seen as a ‘dirty little secret’. Some places in the world women and girls are seen as ‘dirty’ when she’s having her period which is just very backwards. And there are some guys who would balk at the suggestion of getting pads or tampons for their partner or daughter. But thankfully there are other men who just view it as a medical necessity and don’t think women “can just hold it in”.
Right? Periods are our natural cleaning process that our wombs go through :) it's a messy, painful process but a necessary one.
@@RedRoseSeptember22I couldn’t have said it better myself:)
It’s so insane that women go through that every single month… every single month and there’s still such a stigma around it…
@gabe6495 well the unused egg has to come out sometime 😂
Can you atleast mark the time of what you're replying to? Now people have to look for 39 minutes
My man, never be ashamed of emotion. The fact that a story can make you well up, can make you tear open that wellspring of empathy means that you have a heart. That you can relate to your fellow man. It means that you are Human! Never be ashamed to be human...those that don't feel another's pain, that can't express sympathy, regret, or love...those people should feel shame. They sold the greatest gift we were given, gave it away as if it were so much trash...they sold their own Humanity. So you keep on singing, keep on dancing, keep on screaming, and let the tears flow like the waves of the ocean!
The beginning always gets me. Her Husband jumps in front of that bear and Elanora grabs up her kid and jumps on that horse so fast , and she has to take off on the horse having to leave her Husband behind to save their child.
You know that's a terrible choice to make, but she makes it decisively. That's how you know Elanora may be a lady, but she is a strong woman. And her husband is a beast too. I love this couple. Relationship goals.
"Eleanor", not elanora.
I lost my mom not too long before this movie first came out. I had a lump in my throat throughout most of it, but at the end when Merida is crying "I want you back" OMG I just started bawling in the movie theater!
I have a really close relationship with my mom and we went to the movie theater together to see this movie . We were bawling hugging each other. I may not remember most of the movies that I went with her as a kid but I will forever remember this one. I’m sure she was there with you in that moment when you saw this close to your heart. You’re brave ❤
Finally someone who also cried at the ending part when we thought her mother was gone. That part always has me bawling. Especially because of the music.
It's the fact Merida's mom doesn't break out of her restraints until her daughter is about to be hurt. Not even when she herself was about to DIE. That momma bear instinct came out the moment her baby was in trouble
9:26 Young MacGuffin is speaking Doric - it's an actual dialect from Scotland. The voice actor Kevin McKidd (who also voices Lord MacGuffin) has relatives in the area who have that accent.
It turns out he said: "If he were a wee bit closer I could lob ma caber at him, ya ken?" Caber tossing is a game in the Highland Games - lifting a long heavy log (caber) and seeing how far you can throw it. "Ma" meaning "my", "ya ken?" meaning "you know".
Later he says "It's just nae fair making us fight for the hand o'a quain who doesnae want a bit of it, ken?" meaning "it's just hot fair making us fight for the hand of a girl who doesn't want a bit of it, you know?"
I always cry at the speech she gives at the end. That "You've always been there for me" gets me EVERY TIME 😢
Angus is 10/10 the best horse friend and the goodest boy... sticks with her even though he's terrified. Also HIS ANIMATION IS STELLAR. I love this movie, thanks for your honest and thoughtful reaction!
Better than Twilight?
33:19 😢awww❤ I got teary-eyed when merida's mom basically just snapped when she realized another bear was going to hurt her. It made me think about mama
This movie wasn't liked by critics because it didn't feel like a Pixar movie. Then on top of that the trailers at the time didn't really express what the movie was really about. Which in all honestly it doesn't feel like a PIxar movie which i think is great. It feels like a good mix of Disney and Pixar. It also broke the Pixar formula which felt nice. The story is fun and well rounded, The visuals are beautiful, the music has perfect scores for a non musical movie, the jokes and the scares hit at the right time. You just can't make "Critics" happy. This will always be a great movie.
I love that you immediately made the connection between HTTYD and Brave! I was a big Tumblr girlie back in the day, and there was this pretty big crossover fandom between Tangled, Brave, Rise of the Guardians and How to Train Your Dragon called Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons (please don't judge us, we were teens having fun). One of the big ships coming out of that fandom was actually Hiccup and Merida, which I enjoyed myself, so it made my inner 16 year old giggle when you immediately mentioned HTTYD
Wasn’t frozen thrown into that mix later on as well?
@@lenibeni7421 they were, but I was already a bit disconnected from the fandom at that point and I never liked that addition anyway since it made an already bloated cast feel overwhelming and I felt that Anna and Elsa had a different energy than the rest, so it’s not something I think about
"I would think that the sons would turn into something different."
If you remember, the witch's house, everything she carved was bears. She's got a bit of a fixation. Lol.
This is one of my favourite films, period. The lullaby that Elinor sings to Merida in that flashback scene when they're out in the rain the night they first flee the castle, that song is sung in Scottish Gaelic and was the first (and might still be only) case of a Disney Princess singing in her native language; a few others feature native languages in the film, such as Moana, though the princesses themselves don't sing in the language themselves. I haven't seen some of the newer ones so it may have changed, so please feel free to correct me, anyone, but it's still the first case of a Disney princess singing in her native language! In English, the song is called Noble Maiden Fair and was written just for this film.
Most of us when we’ve been locked in for a long time and told what to do and who to be , sometimes as ppl growing , it’s not that we wanna break that bond or intentionally do , it’s that most of us have been held back even by those we love most , we are appreciative of everything they do , but sometimes we as humans just wanna navigate and see if we can manage on our own without the need of having to be at our parents side for everything or in most cases ppl have been treated indifferently by there own families and sometimes just breaking away helps us heal and most of all grow ❤️
I absolutely love this movie. it was my older daughter's favorite when she was younger and she got to meet her at Disney World just walking around the park and we saw her and my daughter was so star struck and happy. The cutest pictures when she was itty bitty.
Bro, when Merida said, “I need you, mommy,”
I cried my eyes out.
Im from scotland and in scotland right now 🏴😊 This was amazing! The scenery is very good and accurate and they did quite a good job historically speaking plus the music is great. Most of the voice actors are beloved scottish actors and the dad is the legend comedian billy connelly 😊 i dont know why so many people didnt like it maybe because there was quite a lot of scottish humour they didnt get but i love it one of my fav animated movies and my kids love it too. The lad that nobody can understand was voiced by kevin mckidd and he played the blonde dad and son. I always took it to be kind of an Aberdeen strong accent or at least somewhere up the top of scotland but i can understand most of what he is saying not everything though its still strong even for me 😂 really glad you enjoyed it and it gets me everytime at the end too still so emotional! 🥹❤️
bro i absolutely love this movie and it’s scottish humor 100/10
I've got Scottish and Irish heritage, and I would LOVE to visit the land someday.
@@okumabeari feel like everyone has at least a bit of Irish ancestry. Those mfs somehow shagged their way into everyone's family trees
Pixar will sometimes just come up with a new idea for a physics engine and write a movie around it. Hair, octopus tentacles, fire & water effects
" Aw! My leg!" Lol 1:40
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The child who we can't understand is actually speaking Doric a real language dielect of Scotland. hes second line is litterally: "It's just not fair making us fight for the hand of the girl that doesn't want any part of it. You know?"
This story is so beautiful...my mom and I had a very complicated relationship (she passed away a few years ago), but my daughter and I are incredibly close.
She has me saved as, "Mama Bear" in her phone, because she knows I'm super chill about pretty much everything, but no one, and I mean no one, steps up to my kid.
She's saved as "Baby bear" in my phone ❤
I just happened to take a guided trip through Scotland a couple of years after Brave was released. A mother/daughter duo were on the trip, and it turns out their son/brother works for Pixar and helped write the code for Merida’s hair. (They had proof.) it was so cool to talk to them about the making of this movie while in Scotland. 🏴
I have Scottish ancestry on my mother's side of the family. My mom and I are really close so this movie with the Scottish culture and the mother daughter relationship is a favorite of ours to watch together.
Merida's hair actually took so mucj work. It changed the entire way pixar and others animated hair as a whole. They rigged and animated each and every strand of hair individually.
This is one of my TOP favorite “princess” movies. I say that in quotations because Merida is not your stereotypical princess. Tangled is tied with Brave for me as best princess movies. However, I definitely cannot say I like Brave more than HTTYD. Maybe equally, but not more. Excited to watch this reaction! Thank you sharing it with us!🫶🏻
Idk why so many ppl hate on Brave, even though I don’t think about it much among the other Disney princess movies, it is still a great movie
@@JustCallmeMJ It's fine but it's not a great movie mostly due to the whole bear thing. That's where it loses a lot of people and potential that it had to be great. If you want to know why a lot of people dislike it (including me) i'd recommend watching *Brave was a Disappointment* by eliquorice. Bit of a long video but it's honestly really good
I’m obsessed with this guys reactions
Haggis is sheep's stomach stuffed with a mix of its heart, liver, and lungs. Seasoned with salt, minced onions, oatmeal, suet, and mixed with stock. LoL
"I want to go to this festival". In most places in the US and Canada you can find Highland Games at some point throughout the year. There's usually live music, pipe bands, Highland dance competitions, sheepdog trials, and sport competitions like the caber toss, hammer throw. Centuries ago clans used the sport competitions to determine who would be the chieftan's bodyguards.
It's so oddly refreshing to see a man, specifically a black man, be able to express and show emotion so openly.
I hate how emotions are so vilified amongst male society. Everyone has them. It doesn't matter what's between your legs.
As a black woman, I agree ❤
Blame men like Andrew Tate for that
i agree, they are seen as weak. Having older brothers and being in a hispanic household and they are meant to be all strong and not show an inch of weakness its so sad, ill be damned if my potential future kids be seen as weak just because they are showing their emotions.
Absolutely!
The first time I saw this movie it made me love Scotland my favorite contry I like how they showed the culture.. and all the scenes and backgrounds of the movie are fantastic, I will never understand why it received so much hate.😂
My love of this movie is that it feels more like feminism done right. A realistic issue between a mother that is old school and a daughter that believes otherwise. Clever writing like her father never believing in magic and is willing to believe his daughter went crazy than the ounce of belief that she was right. Overall it is a very well done movie and the feelings that Mell had is well justified. Especially when all hope is lost to her and she says how she feels.
And it didn't fall into the trap of making Merida's character infallible. She was forced to grow, acknowledge that while she was right to be mad, her actions still had consequences, had to humble herself and couldn't solve everything on her own.
"Mama, go upstairs," kills me 😅😅😂
Watching from Scotland 🏴 and I LOVED this reaction to Brave🫶🏻The voiceover to dad is the Scottish national treasure that is Sir Billy Connolly♥️Merida is voiced by Kelly McDonald, another national treasure here in Scotland. Brave is an amazing animation and when I first seen this it reminded me of my childhood in Edinburgh. Walking Arthur’s Seat and searching for Wisps with my mother🫶🏻♥️Great reaction 🫶🏻♥️🏴
Brave doesn't follow the traditional Pixar formula and that ended up giving the execs cold feet. The original director of the fildm, Brenda Chapman, was removed and replaced with Mark Andrews who changed the ending of the film.
That's BULLSHIT bro...
What was the original ending supposed to be like?
fun fact , in the middle ages a princess was expected to learn how to lead an army so that as queen she could defend the kingdom from invasion while her husband was off doing king shit
I’ve always loved this movie, and I cry this much every time, it’s just sooo good! Loved also how much you appreciated the animation, it’s beautiful!
This movie is one of my favorite Pixar films of all time because of the Celtic music and how they understand Fate, and that it highlights the relationship between a Girl and her mother and how the burden our parents sometimes put on us to be just like, if not Better version of them instead of being the best version of ourselves. Merida at first sees it as Her mom Wants her to be just like her (well I'm not going to be like you) when her mom is trying to teach her how to handle the Pressures of being a "princess" because she's the Heir to her family 's "Throne" but her mom thinks there's only one way to be a Princess/Queen.
This, Moana, and Coco make me cry every time. These, imo, are some of the best Disney movies ever. Better than any of the ones before or after. Again, imo.
Moana makes me cry. Brave makes me cry. Coco makes me bawl my eyes out. My mother passed 2/22/22 from dementia, so the scene where Mama Coco starts singing, just instantly KILLS me, every single time, no matter what.
Damn got me crying and shi damnnn Mello we both cried at the same damn time... Every time when Disney plays this movie on Disney Channel, It really makes me cry. 😁😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I saw this movie in theaters with my mom when it came out. For the entire movie she glanced and smiled at me . She saw Merida in me, but my mom and have an amazing relationship so she never tried to change that part of me that's independent , wild and spontaneous. Im so appreciative of that because of lot of people tried to change me as a little girl and its scared me a little. But the older I get the more I don't care. SO that's why I love this movie because she reminds me to be myself always.
I cried right alongside you even though I’ve already seen this movie. I genuinely adore it and your reaction as well!
Brave makes me so frustrated because when you hear about the original plans for the movie, it was going to be much more dialed in on the Mother/Daughter relationship and how both of them are strong in their own way, how neither is particularly wrong for her world view and instead they learn to respect one another.
But then the original director got canned and the dude who replaced her decided it needed to be the bear movie.
I dont care what anyone says, Merida is one of my favourite princesses BECAUSE she got the Pixar treatment
24:43 my mom's been taking care of my grandma since she had her stroke in February and it's been very difficult to watch her decline ....
She's still the strongest woman I know ❤
10:19 I wouldnt say this was the movie that started all the "woke" stuff cause I remember watching this movie when I was younger and I loved the whole daughter/mother relationship rather than thinking about "men strong women weak" type shi
there have been strong female characters since the 90s, people are just whiny and have too much free time. I remember my grandparents used to collect articles back then about BS like how mulan and timon from the lion king were trying to indoctrinate kids into being gay lmao
You're right, Merida was a 16 year old girl who didn't want to be married. Not because she believed she didn't need a man but because she was a child and didn't want to be married at such a young age.
When did the whole “woke” stuff happen anyway?
@chloejoyhenry3137 It Really Got Big Around The New Star Wars Movies.
@@chloejoyhenry3137 it's not a thing, so it never started. if you mean when did production companies stop putting effort into their movies cuz they wanted to make bigger profits? in the mid to late 10s.
Mel I see you ❤ I cry that much too watching Disney and Pixar movies , they are so heartwarming my heart just can’t take it , it spills out my eyes every time ‼️
Fun fact, whenever the mom as a bear eats food, that’s when she turns like a real bear
I adored this movie growing up!! The setting, the archery, Merida's hair!! I found out recently that I have Scottish heritage!! Passed down from my grandfather! 🥰💚
I love this movie, my family has deep Scottish/Irish roots. I am directly related to a few well known Scottish people. The cravings on the stones in the beginning are Pictish (I also come from deep rooted pictish ancestry) not much is known about them. All that's left are some carvings that archeologists still haven't been able to really figure out. We know that they were very tough. So tough that even the Romans who were feared by many wouldn't mess with them. They were known to be covered head to toe in blue paint or tattoos and were naked with the exception of a few chains around their necks, waist and limbs. We dont know where they went but I think they were breed/cultured out and a lot of them just let go of who they were and it was forgotten. Scottish is beautiful and I hope to go there one day and visit the house of my namesake Sorbie tower.
8:08 I think she's roughly 16.
But back then girls could get married off when they were as young as 12 - so long as they'd "bled" meaning had their period, because that meant that they were able to have children.
Henry the 8th, his grandmother Margaret Beaufort was married off to Edmund Tudor when she was 12, and at age 13 was a heavily pregnant widow. Edmund was 25 when she married him.
33:57 no because Disney/pixar hates their viewers. I’ve seen this way over 15 times, and I’m still sobbing with you and Merida
Same ive watched this a thousand times this movie carried my childhood with my mom
This is me and my mothers favorite Pixar movie. We really bonded and related to this movie in our own relationship. It shows the mother and daughter dynamic and how we can end up hurting each other but we have to mend our bond because we can be misunderstood.
One of the most underrated Disney movies of all time . I love everything about this movie,it is so amazing. I don't understand why most don't like this movie. Meridia is one of the best characters in Disney history
14:21 When I tell u I screamed at the rhyming & seriousness 😂
33:11 Mello's emotions are so intact. I love it
He missed the opportunity to say "Bear Naked"
I love how emotionally invested u are and understand the messages. Thats what movies are all about
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who imitates the lamp during Pixar intros.😂😂
THIS IS A CLASSIC.
I love this movie so much ♥️♥️♥️. Out of all the Disney princesses, it’s nice to see one center around familial relationships. I relate to Merida a lot especially her dynamic with her mom. The “listen” speech spoke to me in so many levels. Top notch movie.
Love watching Pixar make you cry. 😂
They also made me cry at Up and Brave the funniest part is when the lord pull his son out behind the strongest person 😂
then the buff guy ends up with maudi at the end XD
I've always loved this movie because Merida looks exactly like my mom, they both have the curly, untamable, fiery red hair and seeing a main character that looks like my mom and represents Scottish culture so well meant the world to me. (my mom's side of the family is Scottish). Now that I'm older I still love this movie and can see that my mom sees me as her own Merida.
I cannot properly put into words just how much this movie meant to me then and still does now, but it will always have a special place in my heart.
I love this movie for the ironic things before seeing it in theatres as a kid. I saw it with my mother, I'm Scottish and I had a multitude of teddy bears.
that bear spooked me the FREAK out when i was little i remember crying over the bear at the end and the beginning
First time watching with you, and a great movie. As Swartszenegger said, "I'll be back." I lived in Scotland, and that un-understandable speech is an actual Scottish dialect.
I was fortunate to save up and visit scotland on a solo trip last month and it is amazing. The scenery, especially the highlands were captured well in this movie. Each time i see this i get the urge to give my mum a hug.
All started with a vacation. Pixarbl people got to see just how incredibly beautiful Scotland was, and had to make a movie for it, and get paid to come back no less. Great film, universal message, too. Love it
35:00 Somehow I always got the feeling that when she was young Elinor was the best horsewoman in the four clans.
And that she still is - as she's about to prove to Merida.
Love seeing you cry over a sensitive scene. Love it! Haven’t seen you cry much. Wholesome
This is one of my favorite kid's movies across the board. It's got great animation, visuals, and meaning, plus dope accents. My daughter loves it, too, though nothing will ever compete with Tangled for her. Loved your reaction, man!
I love how merida was the first princess to not be married or stay single. Plus when i would watch this when i was younger my mom told me that she would tell me to watch brave because to show that women can do anything and thats just so amazing.
I have zero idea why this movie doesn't get more respect or the play that it deserves. I personally think between the story, the final fight between the bears, the animation, the Scottish accents, and the music, this is one of the better Pixar movies that they've produced.
I love how in touch Mellow is with his emotions 🫶🏾
It’s def my fav Disney Princess movie ever. She’s definitely the most confident, listens to the beat of her own drums rather than anyone else’s and brave. (Other than Mulan, she’s definitely all of those as well) And she makes me so proud to have Scottish heritage in me every time I watch it. 😂🩷
Omg!! So happy you did this movie. Since I was a child Merida has literally been my favorite Disney princess!!
She’s literally is the only princess that never had help from a man. Like she literally fought against her dad! She has big bushy curls! She, instead of losing her parents in some tragic way or anything bad like that, mended the bond (placed that 100% on purpose 😂) with her mother. This is the BEST movie for little girls and for them to feel like they can be badass without the help of a man. Bonus! She didn’t end up in a relationship at the end of the movie!
I love Scotland, Ireland, redheads, Celtic music and legends... So beautiful...
Fun fact that accent is real by the way the person that you couldn’t understand it’s like some sort of Gaelic accent deeepp deep Irish that’s English but just so mixed up because of the accent
Yes yes yes, we love Scottish music and accent. I love the song of them catching fishes in the river. And yes, watching it again n again still cry rivers at the end scene when the sun rise and mom still in bear form.
As a Scottish person
I fucking love this movie
The slag, accents, myths, tradition and history in it makes me really happy to see it on screen.
The festival they were at is actually still a thing to this day
Yeah you are totally on point... those people are too weak
Brave has the most accurate depiction of the flight of an arrow I’ve ever seen in a film, and as an archer, I’m wicked critical of movie archery
Everyone thinking her dad died in the beginning has me wheezing
Well can you blame them? We see the bear launching to bite and it cuts away to the title of the movie. Pretty classic way to show a parent dying without seeing it on screen.
So Brave changed the game for future Disney and Pixar movies. Aside from the hair (which they had to create a whole new system for), Merida was the first Disney princess to have a realistic body. Where her waist wasn't super skinny and she actually looked like she got some muscle on her body. She's also the first Disney Princess to not have a love interest and the first to have a voice actress that was ethnically correct. Since Merida is Scottish, she should have a Scottish accent. But Disney always went for only American actors and they just tried to imitate accents; sometimes pretty badly. But Merida's voice actress is actually from Scotland so she's the first to be voiced by someone she's supposed to represent.
This is probably one of my favorite Pixar movies - if not my favorite by at least a little bit! Nothing against Turning Red, but the mother/daughter relationship in this hit so much harder with my relationship with my mom. Probably because she wasn't really around enough for us to have the relationship the mother/daughter had in that movie. I never understood why people dislike it as much as they do - it's such a beautiful movie.
My 4 little cousins were all you get and around the same age. Man when I tell you for about 3 months after this movie came out ALL we ever heard was "feast your eyes" in a bad Scottish accent, while getting mooned because they kept doing that. They thought it was the epitome of comedy 😂
26:50 "Be proud of me upstairs" is way funnier than it was originally intended to be LOL
I love Celtic music, the music in brave is absolutely perfect. Also Merida is Scottish.
My cousin worked on her hair! I’m not sure which scenes, he also worked on the horse and the smoke from the cauldron! I’m so proud! 😁
So glad you reacted to this one!! It's so beautiful and heartwarming. And I love how there is a love story, but not a romantic one. Please check out Storks! Not Pixar, but so good and underrated.
You are the only person I will ever react to movies because u feel them and that is so much more important then actually seeing them ❤️🫡
this is why i watch this channel, i love watching grown men cry for the right reasons