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In truth the film is far more influenced by Disney, which owns Pixar, and Merida has much in common with recent Disney heroines, being a feisty young woman who refuses to be married off to one of an unimpressive trio of suitors for the sake of a political alliance.
Not only is Merida smarter than any of her prospective husbands, the Titian-tressed dynamo is a better horsewoman and far more lethal with a bow, traits which endear Merida to her father, Fergus (Billy Connolly), but enrage her mother, Elinor (Emma Thompson).
