Movie Review: Tangled

“So, you’re being strangely cryptic as you wrap your magic hair around my injured hand.”
-Eugene

Not exactly the typical Disney fare I’d been expecting from the previews. Which I guess was good, because I really wasn’t expecting to like this movie. Don’t get me wrong, it still had a lot of weird ‘this is an animated kids movie, so we can get away with putting a drunk old man in a diaper and playing it for laughs’ moments. But in general, I was pleasantly surprised.

Stuff I Liked

1. Maximus the horse. I laughed every time he was on screen.

2. Pascal the chameleon. Sure, you could make a whole thesis out of how Disney personifies animals and dehumanizes people, but it’s a Friday. They get a day pass.

3. Eugene/Flynn — he was like Aladdin, except eight thousand times less whiny. And literate!

4. Rapunzel, much to my surprise. She was like Anastasia, but with eight thousand times less angst. (Granted, the songs weren’t as good.)

5. Least. Frightening. Disney. Villain. EVER. (Though she did shank Eugene, which shocked me so much I had to watch twice.)

6. It was pretty. And it included flower essences. (And faith healing, or whatever you want to call the magical healing tear. I thought they sort of handwaved that bit.)

“I didn’t see that coming, her hair *actually* glows.”
-Eugene

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.