FROM Brigadoon to Local Hero, cinema has long had a soft spot for Scotland.
But it takes the sprinkling of a certain sort of animation magic, Pixar magic to be precise, to make the place look like heaven on earth, as it does in Brave.
From the lava-like locks of its young heroine (who initially bears an alarming resemblance to Rebekah Brooks: don't worry, it passes), to the majestic hues of the heather, Brave features every colour in the Scottish rainbow and makes up some new ones just because it can.
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