If the words “Walt Disney Pictures” were the only ones to flash on the screen at the beginning of “Brave,” I would feel a lot differently about it. But “Pixar Animation Studios” soon follows, completely changing the expectations for the film.

“Brave” doesn’t live up to them. It’s a relentlessly conventional fairy tale, of the type in which Disney specializes. It has nothing of the whimsy and wonder of most Pixar pictures — or the surprisingly stimulating ideas that have made the studio’s films favorites of both children and their sometimes-cynical parents.