My Rambings About Tangled

While I'm still working on writing up my review for here and my blog, I'll be the first to say that the film was okay. I loved Maximus and Mother Grothel especially her songs but there were portions of the film that were forgettable. Not even the little chameleon made me crack a smile but then again, we had the well-animated horse so there was no way he could compete. I wish that there was more to Mother Grothel other than needing the flower to keep her youth. There wasn't any mention about if she was a witch or not. She was more human but given a curse it seemed. Also, since when babies come out of the womb with the hair length of a girl who's about four years old? It's one of the things I don't understand about films even though there was probably a passage of time from the time Rapunzel was born to the time she was cooing in her crib.

The Vikings were interesting although I already forgot their names. I know about their wishes but the whole song-and-dance number, while interesting, was also as forgettable as some of the songs from the film. Then again, if I take a listen to the soundtrack over and over again, the songs will be crammed in my head. Then again, after seeing The Princess and the Frog last year, I didn't have to wait until I received the soundtrack to have any of the songs to get stuck in my head.

While this film is the last of the fairy tales for now, I think that it pales in comparison to last year's Princess Classic however it was colorful and attractive calling back, once again, Maximus to the main lead even with her long hair in a braid. I'll admit that I grew to like Rapunzel and she's an interesting woman. Using her hair to swing around a tree to rescuing Flynn from being captured by his former cohorts and the Royal Army is, to me, the first superpower given to any young woman of Disney's history in the times of knights, handsome thieves, and no damsel in distress except near the end.

I think what held this film from being interesting to me was the plot. So what that Rapunzel wanted to see the many paper lanterns in the sky. I said to myself, 'The other princesses had better goals especially Princess Tiana who had to work, work, work in order to get what she wanted.' I know that it was another way of telling us that Rapunzel wanted to get out and see what she has been missing throughout her 18 years of being held in the tallest tower in the hidden sector of the forest but I wished that her goal in life was something better and stronger even when the film was in writing.

This isn't a film I'll pick up on DVD/Blu-Ray next year but I would show people Tangled to take a look at examples to assist them with transitioning the dynamics of 2D animation to be used effectively in a CGI film. This gains two out of my personal rating of four stars. With the animated projects we're getting next year from Disney, maybe they, or even one, might come off as being better than what I saw yesterday afternoon. Also, the marketing for the film didn't work since there were more little girls with their families than guys. Better luck next time with trying to reach your true demographic Disney. Then again, with their fairy tales, I don't need to be shown action in the trailers. I don't need to have commercials made exclusively for males my age and younger to pull them into this film. I'm not going to be negative on this film but I can see Disney complaining about not making a lot of money with this film. It could be The Princess and the Frog all over again but, in my opinion, it'll still collect enough money to be used for other future projects so I wouldn't complain.

For the trailers preceding the movie, none of them interested me. I already know that I'll check out Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader but everything else I'm skipping from Justin Bieber in Never Say Never 3D to Yogi Bear 3D although I might check out Cars II. Once you see the trailers for a lot of films online, you get tired of them once you have to deal with them before any film you watch in theaters.