I’ll admit it right now, I’m a sucker for a good fairy tale. Half of MY books are variations on fairy tales, the other half are daring heroic tales. So when I was asked about reviewing the upcoming Disney’s Brave DVD
Disney Brave’s DVD FEATURES
5 discs-Blue Ray, 2nd Blue Ray disc with more Bonus features, 3D Blue Ray, DVD, digital copy
over 10 short films: La Luna (from the theatrical release), Legend of Mordu, Dirty Hairy People, and many more
WHAT WE LOVED about Disney’s Brave
the triplets, if you haven’t seen the movie yet, you’ll laugh at Merida’s younger brothers who are little rascals
her father, Jeff and I loved how he was a strong father figure even if he was fallible
okay, I’ll just say her whole family. I laughed at loud at the parents discussing Merida’s stubbornness, I foresee many conversations like that someday in my house
Merida, she’s a fun character
the crazy witch, I mean woodcarver
THINGS TO BE AWARE OF in Disney’s Brave
there are two scenes where you see naked backsides, there is nothing sexual about it, it’s played for laughs, but it is there
the bear in this movie can be scary, if your little one is prone to nightmares keep that in mind
one of the scenes with the witch is a little scary at times, but overall she’s funny.
OUR OVERALL RATING of Disney’s Brave
10 enthusiastic thumbs up, the kids got a little scared at some of the scenes but right after watching the movie the boys eagerly headed out to shoot bows and arrows, and Princess happily pretended to be Merida. In my book any movie that leads to pretend play and my kids doing things together is a good movie.
Our plans for the upcoming Brave movie playdate
Make a bow and arrow out of popsicle sticks for the kids
Print and play with Brave print outs
What food do you suggest? Leave a comment for your first entry to win the Brave DVD
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DISCLAIMER: I did not receive any compensation for this review, all opinions and views expressed are my own. I did receive a free copy in exchange for my honest opinion. Like with most things I review it was on my to buy list anyways.
My girls SO want to see this movie! They keep asking me if it’s available on Netflix yet. I’m glad to read your family’s opinion of it 🙂 A Brave movie play date sounds like tons of fun!
I haven’t seen it yet…but I think it’d be fun to have food related to the movie…as well some food you need to be brave to try!
The naked backsides disturbs me…why oh why do they add such things!!!??
Food? Since you’re talking about Brave, and Brave takes place in Scotland (that’s all I know about it, haven’t seen it yet), I’d have to say Haggis.
Hmmmm….. I don’t think that’d go over well with little kids 🙂
I agree about fairy tales! My kids are older now and I believe they learned so many life lessons from the millions (okay, hundreds?) of fairy tales we read together!
Hmm..food for a Brave party, maybe those pastries called Bear Claws. 🙂
What a fun giveaway!
My kids are very picky eaters so as far as a food for the movie it would be popcorn all the way!
Shortbread and Scones would be good food to fit in with the theme!
Oh that would be delicious!
Our favorite snack is air popped popcorn, drizzled with olive oil and maple syrup, and just a pinch or two of salt. We call it Sticky Popcorn 🙂 It’s a must on movie nights!
As long as the food involves some form of chocolate, you can’t go wrong. 🙂
we love popcorn with movies of all kinds! Dont think that is what you are looking for,lol.
I’m always a fan of popcorn with movies, so I’d DEFINITELY include popcorn!
My three kids are wanting to see this movie, but I don’t want to buy it! It would be great if we won it! 🙂
And we would have to make something yummy and sweet like brownies or something to have at our party!
it was the first movie i took my daughter to in the theater. will always hold a special place in my heart!
if i had a brave party i would serve little pies like in the movie!
Ooohhhh, that’d be yummy.
I would make a Guinness chocolate cake and an Irish soda bread. I have the best recipes for both of those and I just need an excuse to make them again!
Oooohhhhh, I want that recipe!
Here’s the cake https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Chocolate-Guinness-Cake
I can’t find the irish soda bread recipe right now…
You should throw a medieval feast!
i would make muddy buddies and popcorn
We would have chocolate oatmeal cookies for sure! The kids all time favorite treat!
I like the bear claws idea. Maybe chicken wings and they could pretend they are eating huge chicken legs.
Some kinda shrepards pie?
Perhaps some bannocks/oatcakes to go along with our popcorn.
I really love fairy tales too 🙂
Shortbread!!
Popcorn definitely….and cookies, we’re big on cookies with movies.
I have not seen the movie yet – but my kiddos are very interested – so I don’t know what food would match the movie, but my son always asks for homemade kettle corn for movies and it is SO easy! 🙂
maybe sausages? or something on the sweeter end like scones?
One of my fave movie snacks is popcorn and M&M’s! Eat them together for that salty/sweet combo!
We haven’t seen the movie yet but I’d serve food of time period of the movie or something similar.
popcorn and apples
popcorn of course!
I can’t remember what type of pastries those 3 little brothers/bears kept going after – but I would say small pastries, plus honey 🙂 would be fun foods.
Maybe root beer in frosty mugs & rueben sandwiches? We’ve not seen this movie yet but sounds so fun!
A favorite movie night treat in our house is smores! No matter the movie, we can never go wrong with smores. 🙂
I have an idea. My Scottish shortbread made with Real Butter, Vanilla Extract, and a dash of Almond Extract (it adds a nice flavor to them). The kids like them. Sausages or cocktail weenies or both cooked in a Crockpot with a homemade bar-b-que sauce served with toothpicks that look like swords! Potato rolls would be good with that. You could call it “Haggis”, but they would be ok with it, because they’d recognize the flavors as something not too far out there. Maybe salt potatoes for on the side. We could also munch on this trail mix I call Mountain Man Mix. I could try to look for my Tartan online (because I am part Scottish-Barr on my mom’s side :D) and show them, then we could take towels, and pretend we’re all wearing kilts! That guy from the previews looks like a riot! Maybe we could use scarves to look like those purse things that hold everything down for the gents…Then I could show my youngest who’s 8 how to do stage combat swordfight properly so they don’t hurt each other, Go outside and swordfight for a while after eating- maybe midway through like a real intermission like real theatre does it. Then refresh ourselves with (Eggnog) “Grog” milkshakes after. We could set it all up to be eaten on our picnic blanket in the living room, and eat while we watch the movie. Whatcha think?
I would have gluten free crackers and Humus!
we would make mini pies (like the ones the triplets swiped in the movie!) 🙂
popcorn, candy, nachos, sprite, and maybe some soft pretzels… we’d go for a movie theater feel. 😉
Fun giveaway — we haven’t seen it yet.
Every movie watching experience at our house requires popcorn!!
I haven’t seen the movie so I don’t really know what kinds of foods would go along with it. Maybe you could make little bows and arrows out of pretzels and candy corn or something?
I would have popcorn and skittles! Yum! Thanks for the chance to win!
I don’t know much about scottish food, but I’m sure we could come up with something fun! I like the idea of bear claws. We haven’t seen the movie in the theater because my oldest daughter said it would be too scary for my 5 year old twins on such a big screen. I like the ability to fast forward at home if I need too.
I love this movie! 🙂 I would make a snack mix with popcorn, teddy grahams and/or gummy bears (to represent the bears), goldfish crackers (to represent the fish eating scene), mini wafers (to represent the small pastries) and chocolate. Also apples for a healthy addition.
I would go medieval- eat with your hands food! Chicken legs, meat pies,
bread and don’t forget the popcorn!
Oh that would be fun!
I cheated and read the previous comments. I like the bear claw pastry idea, and maybe the ‘fake’ haggis.
would a Blu Ray play in a regular DVD player? (just curious if I’d have to give it away if I won it) 🙁 That would be sad. I’d LOVE to see it.
It also includes a regular DVD as one of the 5 discs, so no worries there.
Root bear and caramel popcorn!
You can never go wrong with either of those to my mind!
I would have small pastries for our food!
I would have Bear Claws at a Brave party 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway!
Kettle Potato Chips..they’re my new addiction.
Cookies cut out like bears!
Brownies
Haggis? Oh, wait, something KIDS would want to eat. Dirt cake maybe?
My family always enjoys popcorn when we watch a movie.
Pizza!