If you were a Scottish princess, wouldn’t using a spell to turn your mother the queen into a bear be considered an act of insurrection? It’s hard to imagine that in real life Merida—the red-headstrong princess in Disney Pixar’s Brave—would avoid the tower for very long. In fact, consorting with a witch would be pretty risky, burning at the stake and all. Not to mention Scottish royalty has a particularly discouraging tradition of lea-

If you can imagine that without crawling into a mental fetal position, then you can imagine “Cars 2.” In this animated sequel from Disney’s Pixar studio, Owen Wilson’s neurotic race car Lightning McQueen turns over the keys to the two-ton four-wheeled village idiot Mater, the buck-toothed tow truck. Jar Jar, it’s your big chance!