A bad all-you-can-eat animation buffet

Rating: 3/10 (14 January 2012)

Boring, cliché, cheesy, unoriginal are some of the terms that come to mind when I think of this movie. I know it's for kids and not meant to be taken seriously but it's such a bad joke. Despicable Me, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Kung-fu Panda are for kids too but adults can enjoy them because there's an acceptable coherence to the premise of the movie, the role of the characters in the plot, why the characters do what they do, and so on. Of course I always go easy and try not to nitpick on the logical factors in animations but come on it's way too flawed that you can't relate to the characters' motives.
The lost princess is kidnapped and hidden away in an Empire-State-sized tower in a NEARBY forest. And everyone has been searching for her high and low for 18 years? How the hell can one miss such a wonderful architecture? Rapunzel is so healthy, fit, sane and oh so smart despite being solitary confined and brainwashed. Her only interactions are the wicked 'mother' and the chameleon. OK I accept the premise that she's special due to the magical properties of the sun drop flower or whatever. The 'mother' is just weird to the bone. She wants to be forever-young but why and for what? Dude get this, she lives like a recluse and doesn't even have a boyfriend to begin with. OK I accept the premise that she's batsh*t insane and psychotic. She wants to be forever young and forever alone to take walking excursions in the woods like Thoreau during the day then comes back and makes hazelnut soup for the night. Repeat. Flynn, the sly thief can't over-power Rapunzel.I take it he instantaneously infatuates upon seeing Rapunzel. Ah don't even get me started with the singing.
I wonder how are they supposed to search for the lost princess? Age-progression artist? If that's the case, they'd need to execute the artist because no one recognizes her in broad day light. I mean Rapunzel literally looks just like her mother, the Queen. The royal guards stumbled upon her but they were apparently unimpressed with the uncanny resemblance of Rapunzel to their Queen. Rapunzel was surrounded by the town folks dancing and singing on the princess's birthday sky lantern annual ceremony. Yet it crosses no one's mind she's the lost princess. How are they gonna ever find her since they can't even tell when she's right in-front of them? the Queen saw her and knows right away she's her long lost little daughter. Oh I guess mother does know best.
I feel bad for them kids because these kind of movies instill the wrong idea about love. Disney animations will be responsible for the future of the clueless generation of males when it comes to girls.
Some positive points: I did like the animation especially Rapunzel's hair; it's so smooth and fluid. She's very pretty and cute too. It got me laugh out loud in some funny scenes. But it's still a bad animation. It's like Disney dumped some of their previous works together, mix them with the main ingredient of Cinderella from 1950, add some other spices and voila there comes Tangled. I guess kids would love it. But adults don't even bother.