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[ctbuchanan]

Just about every Disney movie I saw as a child had scary parts - just think about the wicked Queen in Snow White or Bambi's mother dying - I think it is a Disney staple.

I liked the movie very much - the animation was incredible, my wife and I are still trying to figure out how they animated the heroine's hair, amazing. It's a fairy tale like all the rest and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I fully expect the highland games this season to be full of young red-headed girls with bows and arrows.

All in all, my review: 's maith sin!!!

[SlackerDrummer]

My only (fairly) major beef is that while the King and Queen speak in a Scottish accent (as do the supporting characters), but their daughter, the Princess, speaks with an Irish one.

Yeah, 'cause I'm sure Kelly Macdonald didn't want to do her own accent.

[creagdhubh]

Yeah, 'cause I'm sure Kelly Macdonald didn't want to do her own accent.

Kelly Macdonald...loved her in Trainspotting and Entropy...

[ctbuchanan]

My only (fairly) major beef is that while the King and Queen speak in a Scottish accent (as do the supporting characters), but their daughter, the Princess, speaks with an Irish one.

All the men wear kilts all the time.

Actually Kelly MacDonald responded to critics about her accent: "Kelly Macdonald: I'm Scottish and I've read things that have said I have a terrible Scottish accent. People don't know."

Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainm...160027405.html

[fcgeil]

Yeah, I saw that, too. I don't know where in Scotland she's from, but she sure sounds Irish to me (and apparently, many others, too).

[California Highlander]

She's from Glasgow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Macdonald). Just like any accent, there are regional variations and not all Scots sound alike, just as someone from Georgia sounds different than someone from Texas. She sounds Scottish to my American ear. But perhaps not like a "typical" Scottish accent.

[Riverkilt]

Yikes- I've seen Trainspotting hundreds of times - use it in groups as part of "heroin vs alcohol" training....never realize it was Kelly playing Diane the underage schoolgirl. Learn something every day...

[xman]

I was a pixar fan when Toy Story came out, but I'm not happy that they sold out to Disney.

I'm not sure this is entirely the case. Disney came at Pixar three times and were rebuffed. They eventually sold ownership of the name, but retained creative control. That's the reason why Pixar remans the go to name in todays animation and not Disney. That's why Merida can fight for herself and not have a John Smith to do it for her.

[Joe I]

I'm not sure this is entirely the case. Disney came at Pixar three times and were rebuffed. They eventually sold ownership of the name, but retained creative control. That's the reason why Pixar remans the go to name in todays animation and not Disney. That's why Merida can fight for herself and not have a John Smith to do it for her.

Like Riverkilt said learn something new every day.

[MacSpadger]

Yeah, I saw that, too. I don't know where in Scotland she's from, but she sure sounds Irish to me (and apparently, many others, too).

I have no idea why, she doesn't sound Irish to me in the slightest. She is well known over here as being from Glasgow. But, as I've said before, I am from the North East of Scotland and have been asked if I am Irish by Americans many times. Funnily enough when I have said no, sometimes the next question is, "Are you Australian, then?".

I have noticed a strange kind of generic accent in the USA, they have started calling it the "Cardiac Celt" accent over here. Groups such as the Dropkick Murphys use it, it sounds like a mix of Australian, Canadian, Irish and Scottish, while at the same time sounding like neither. I am wondering if it might be styled after bands such as The Pogues. I was in a band in the 80's that played with the Pogues, they were neighbours and we knew them well. They were English boys from Camden, London until they adopted a sort of Cockney/Irish singing accent before going to the USA and doing well for themselves as an "Irish" band, despite not sounding that Irish. Shane went to a very expensive school in London that produced the likes of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, I'm sure he didn't pick up any Irishness there. He is a very nice guy, by the way.

But, it's probably all a matter of perception, there are many people here who can't tell USA and Canadian accents apart, never mind the different states.

I have to say that I think Pixar had done well in using several genuine Scottish actors. Hollywood has inflicted many dire "Scotch" accents on the world. I'd rather that films were made like the 90's version of Rob Roy, where Liam Neeson just used his natural Irish accent, no attempt at a Scottish one, claiming no-one in Holywood would know the difference. After all, Sean Connery played the Arab brigand Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni in tones of pure Embra' Fountainbridge in The Wind & The Lion without much complaint from the Arab world.