Saturday, February 25, 2017

Tangled

Disney's retelling of the story of Rapunzel is briskly paced, with Zach Levi voicing Flynn Ryder, and Mandy Moore voicing/singing for Rapunzel.  Rapunzel is this young lady who's been sheltered and lives in a tower high in the sky throughout her formative years.  Rapunzel's interesting characteristic is that she has super-long blonde hair with healing powers from a magical flower, which led to her being kidnapped as a baby by Mother Gothel.  Rapunzel's hair is so long that Mother has to use Rapunzel's hair to be pulled up to Rapunzel's pad for visits with Rapunzel from time to time. 

As it were, the scroundrel of a bandit, Flynn happens on Rapunzel's place after a chase from the palace guards after he snags a satchel with a royal crown in it.  Rapunzel smacks Flynn with a iron frying pan, and after taking stock of the situation, convinces Flynn to take her to the place where floating lights come from on the day of her birth.  From there, the pair have their adventures, though Mother Gothel is in pursuit of Rapunzel all the while.  The 3D version is a little too dark due to film's dark settings at times in the storyline, so 2D is more than adequate for this animated film.

Oh, loved the personality and expressions of the palace horse, Maximus, who has a funny buddy-buddy relationship with Flynn, even with the scrappy "horseplay" between the two of them.

I give it 3 stars, or a grade of B.

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