Tangled

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After the Princess and the Frog, it was clear that returning fully to the old Renaissance formula wasn’t going to bring Disney Animation back. They needed a shake up – and boy did Tangled provide one. This film was the perfect balance of old and new, adding a more modern and often comedic style to it’s music and animation whilst still retaining what made those 90s movies great.

The step up in animation between this and Disney’s last attempts at CGI are incredible. This is a beautiful film, with the lantern sequence being a particular highlight. The way in which the original (and to be honest slightly nonsensical) story of Rapunzel is updated and added to is brilliant and adds a new sense of originality.

The characters are also all wonderful. Rapunzel’s curiosity and endless optimism make her one of the best Princesses in the canon and the villainous Mother Gothel manages to be incredibly entertaining and pure evil at the same time. Flynn Ryder is also charming and his character development is one of the film’s greatest assets.

All of the songs are really fun individually, although the soundtrack as a whole suffers slightly from not really having much of a uniform style.

Overall, Tangled is up there with Disney’s best films.

Ratings

Good guys:  Rapunzel and Flynn are two of the most dynamic protagonists in the canon, so the characters get 9/10

Bad guys: Mother Gothel is one of the all-time great Disney villains, so she gets 10/10

Animation: Incredibly beautiful, the animation gets 10/10

Music: Although it could have benefited from a more uniform sound, the music is really great, so it gets 8/10

Plot: A clever twist on a classic fairy-tale, the plot gets 10/10

Overall score: 47/50

Next review: Winnie the Pooh