When Disney and movie are in the same sentence it’s an automatic assumption that a princess should follow after. Not to mention the evil step-mother and prince charming. Yet, instead of the usual damsel in distress, viewers get a spunky, independent princess in the movie Tangled. I was immediately wrapped into the story the minute it started.
The story is very simple, we have a greedy woman who finds the flower of life, we have a sick queen who is in mid-delivery of a baby which then prompts a search to find said special flower. The greedy woman tries to hide the flower, however it’s still found. The people bring the flower back to the queen, she drinks it becoming healthy again and her daughter is born. Cue greedy woman, apparently in some mysterious way she had discovered that the daughter’s hair still contains the magical properties. However, when she tries to cut loose one of the strands of hair it turns brown and the magic disappears. So the only logical solution is to steal the princess and that’s just what she does.
The movie then starts eighteen years later with egotistical thief, a greedy, false woman, and a girl with dreams. Strider, an infamous thief, had just stolen the kidnapped princess’s tiara and is being pursued by a guard horse, finds a secret passage that leads to a high tower. Thinking that he found the ideal hiding spot, he climbs in and is promptly hit by a frying pan. Cue Rapunzel, she has dreams of seeing the lights that appear on her birthday, and by hiding the tiara Strider stole, Rapunzel makes Strider take her to the kingdom to see it.
The underlying theme I got from this was to never give up your dreams and pursue them. And when you finally complete it, realize that it isn’t the end but the start of another journey and another dream to follow. The movie was a little more realistic, to the extent a Disney cartoon movie could go. It shows a little blood and dances around selfish morals, not to mention a main character death, yet true to its nature, Disney still prevails with producing happy endings. So for the screenplay I would give it a four out of five, it’s funny and entertaining with great morals and themes, however it was too simple for my taste and inevitably predictable.
The animations are awesome, to put it frankly. I give the animation a five out of five, the visual that I saw throughout the movie – the tower, castle, and the confrontation – and how they worked the lighting and color scheme with each scene, perfectly defined each moment while making the mood more dramatic. My rate for this movie is 4.5 out of 5 for the animation, plot, and how interesting it was. I wouldn’t waste money spending on a movie ticket, there are no special sound effects, if you want to just watch it, wait till the DVD comes out.