{"id":5565,"date":"2010-11-30T22:36:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T02:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2010-11-30T22:36:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T02:36:59","slug":"tangled-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/11\/30\/tangled-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangled–Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTangled<\/em><\/a> is Disney’s latest computer-animated film, this one based very loosely on the fairy tale “Rapunzel” by the Brothers Grimm. (It’s probably a good thing that it’s loose. A movie that closely followed the original story<\/a> would be rather weird and gross, and would probably upset the younger members of the audience.)<\/p>\n

The new version of the story is surprisingly entertaining. It is energetic and funny, and many of the changes make more sense than the original story (which frankly seems a bit random.)<\/p>\n

In this version Rapunzel is a kidnapped princess (Mandy Moore). The wicked witch (Donna Murphy) wants her because her hair has magic healing and youth-restoring powers. It would be sort of redundant for her rescuer to be a prince, so he is now a rascally but redeemable thief (Zachary Levi).<\/p>\n

In my opinion the best character is an officious horse (who doesn’t get a voice credit because he doesn’t actually talk.)<\/p>\n

Some people have been comparing this to the great Disney animated features of the past, but I don’t think it is really in that league. For one thing the music isn’t nearly as good. Alan Menken wrote the songs, but he seems to have phoned them in.<\/p>\n

Also the computer-generated animation, while good enough for this sort of story, still lacks the expressive power of the first-rate hand-drawn animation that Disney used to be capable of. Sure, using CG allows them to show it in 3-D and charge extra, but that’s a poor trade-off from an artistic standpoint. I particularly missed the hand-drawn animation in the “I Got a Dream” sequence, which is the closest this movie comes to a memorable musical number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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