But regardless of how true Merida’s feelings of rebellion are, I’m not sure I can make the case that it’s good for my young children to witness them. I know I certainly gave my own mother a good deal of trouble. I don’t have teenage daughters yet, so honestly I don’t know how that stage goes. My concerns were with the visceral and hurtful arguments between Merida and her mother Elinor, and the bold and spiteful (and public) disobedience Merida shows. None of those things are an issue for me.
Like any good Disney movie, it’ll make your kids cry and cry and cry (Bambi, The Fox and the Hound, Up, I’m looking at you). It helps them to understand that feeling and cope with it in a low stakes situation, rather than confronting fear for the first time in a real life situation. But I think it’s good for kids to be scared by movies. We watched it with the whole family and the kids (1.5-10) were pretty terrified during the bear fights.
As in The Princess and the Frog, appropriate consequences are shown for using magic (against your mother). It has magic: Yes, but fairy tales do, and that’s not an issue for me.
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