AUTHOR: Angela Cerda
“This is the story of how I died, but don’t worry this is actually a very fun story!”
Tangled begins with one of the best openings in Disney history.
In recent years Disney had made great steps in recovering its former glory as the leading production company for animated movies, after years of flops and a ‘minor’ falling out with Pixar, Disney has proven itself again.
Tangled, is a novel retelling of another of the Grimm’s brothers fairy tales. In this movie, Rapunzel, while still locked up an isolated tower is an assertive and imaginative girl. She spends her days pursuing creative endeavors and when the opportunity presents itself to explore life outside the tower, she bravely takes it much to the dismay of her unwilling guide—Flynn Rider, a thief who’s quest for riches is always leading him into trouble.
Flynn meets Rapunzel while attempting to outrun and outsmart Max, a Knightly white steed who has a feisty personality of his own and is determined to catch Flynn and bring him to justice. Rapunzel is able to coerce Max and Flynn to put aside their grudge for one day so that she may accomplish her goal of visiting the floating lights that appear every year on her birthday, her main reason for wanting to leave the tower.
The lines in this movie are fantastic, both in diction and in delivery—the cast notably Mandy Moore (Rapunzel), Zachary Levi (Flynn), and Donna Murphy (Mother Gothel) bring the characters to life as believable, whimsical characters. While the characters are players in a movie that pursue comical antics their journey is plausible, enjoyable—Rapunzel is able to deter the intruder in her tower by wielding a cast iron skillet; this act itself is comical and believable for a girl who is stranded in a domestic setting…would you expect Rapunzel, a girl who has never left her home, to attack Flynn with a sword? I think not.
The animation in Tangled is wonderful, while still ‘cartoon-like’ the characters are more life-like than Disney’s previous films (Incredibles, or Meet the Robinsons) this is because the animators wanted to hearken back to the days of hand animation and thus developed a technique in which elements of hand drawing were able to be woven into the new computer graphics—the result? The backgrounds are reminiscent of oil pastel paintings and Disney has put in details into fabrics, and individual facial features—Rapunzel has freckles and her hair has a life like texture… and Flynn’s goatee is pretty cool
too.
The story flows in a light fashion, with heart-warming moments—including meeting a band of ruffians who all have unique and slightly domestic dreams to an impromptu village dance and a heartwarming love scene between the two protagonists while they watch the floating lanterns. The climax of the story is heart wrenching and shocking and truly reminiscent of Disney’s darker days before the antics; where bad guys got the ending they deserve and the good guys don’t always win.
I personally give this movie a 9/10 because the movie takes a classic story and spins it in a new fashion, not a modern fashion but leaves room for creation and growth: Flynn as a strong male character has his flaws and Rapunzel has hers too. The music is catchy and the comic scenes are downright side stitching, make some time to get tangled up with this fantastic film!
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