It's a princess tale that easily falls into the same category with the classics.
They finally let go of trying to find something new and different and settled with what was working for them almost 20 years ago. I kid you not when i say this."Tangled" is easily the best Disney Animated feature i have seen since "Aladdin".yes, it is that good. So needless to say, Disney finally had enough, and pulled out all the stops for this one.
The first time anyone from PIXAR has ever done so, let alone the freakin VP. But where is that old feeling we all use to share? Well i can tell you this much.i already knew that Disney had something special here, mainly because the VP of PIXAR jumped ship and decided to fund this project. You can make a great animated movie without resorting to actual hand drawn art. But isn't that a shame? What happened to the totally awesome Disney movies? If your excuse is because of technology, i assure you that your wrong. If your like me, I'm sure your answer falls somewhere in the mid 90's. I'm talking about just a regular ol' straight laced Disney flick. It all feeds into a film that is still recognisably Disney, just a little funnier.Honestly, when is the last time you saw a decent Disney Animated feature? No no, PIXAR does not count. Yes, this is a Disney musical, with Menken pitching the songs somewhere between the sincere melodies of his Little Mermaid and the comedy of his early work on the likes of Little Shop Of Horrors. The other stars are comic scene-stealer and police horse extraordinaire Maximus, who seems to think he’s a bloodhound, and Alan Menken, who composed the songs and score. She’s a monster of the first order, but the fact that she’s entirely bereft of superpowers and reliant on her considerable wits to keep her going makes her strangely admirable, too. Both get decent character development too, and base their growing love story on more than a single longing glance.ĭonna Murphy’s Mother Gothel, meanwhile, provides Disney with its first passive-aggressive villain. The pair face off against barbarians and guards and get a few dazzling action sequences. But the studio’s claim - that the new title reflects the fact that this is very much a two-hander, with Mandy Moore’s innocent but (inevitably) feisty Rapunzel and Zachary Levi’s street-wise yet clueless Flynn sharing the lead - is borne out. This is surprisingly action-packed, its tone surprisingly modern and its plot simply surprising – no mean feat for another Disney fairy tale.Īfter the unspectacular commercial success of The Princess And The Frog, this skews towards the action end of the spectrum, that title change from Rapunzel to the gender-neutral Tangled indicating an impulse away from girliness and tradition.
That, of course, was an almost abstract, medieval art-inspired affair this appears a dreamier, more Romantic effort, but don’t let that fool you. That’s important when you’ve got a character whose long, shiny golden hair is essential to the plot, but more important is the way the light touches every surface in the film, making this the best-looking Disney since Sleeping Beauty. It glimmers and glows, bouncing off surfaces and gleaming on curves. It seems like an odd thing to mention off the bat, but the light in Tangled is just gorgeous.