Rapunzel Goes Disney

Rating: 9/10 (3 April 2013)

What can I say about "Tangled" that has not been said before about every other Disney movie before it. Like every fairy tale before it, liberties were taken with the original tale to expand it into a movie, the animation is breath taking, the actors and characters are excellent and it has its own morality tale behind it as usual. The songs are memorable but not as infectious as anything from say "Aladdin" or "The Little Mermaid" and much like Ariel and Jasmine, Rapunzel has a certain buried sexuality about her when she's not bouncing around like a Disney Channel pop star on soda and candy bars. The characterizations and mannerisms are fun to watch of course; at times, you forget these are animated characters. You can really see the efforts the animators made to have these characters move, react and respond like living people. The best parts mostly surround the character of Rider with the horse Maximilian and how Rapunzel reacts with her color-changing chameleon. I watched the movie because I like to see how far the animation is coming, and Rapunzel's ridiculous long tresses look perfect, but the story itself is just as much fun to watch.