Tangled

For me, Disney is like Tom Cruise. I would dearly love to hate their films because I dislike the person/company in real life, but they just keep making films that are so darn good I can't help but like them. So never mind the Disney wants to own the world and sue it at the same time, never mind that totally. Enjoy a film like "Tangled" for what it is, sheer pure enjoyment.

Innocence.

Here they took the story of Rapunzel and gave that old saw new life. So much life it practically bursts off the table and goes jogging down the road. The first really smart thing it does is that Rapunzel isn't cursed by the witch cause of what her parents did. Instead she has been blessed with the power to instill life and the witch (here more of an old woman but definitely qualifies as something that RHYMES with "witch) steals her away. Since that power is in Rapunzel's hair, Gothel has her grow her hair out to incredible lengths.

The second smart thing they do is in the relationship between Gothel and Rapunzel. Being kept in her tower the only person she knows is Gothel and they form a sort of a mother daughter bond. Gothel uses that love to keep her in the tower. See she COULD leave, but she is both afraid of a world she doesn't know and hurting the only person who she believes love her.

Still she longs to be out of the tower, which leads to smart thing number three. Our heroine is not just a hair freak, but a vivacious young woman who is full of life and creativity.  She's naive and maybe a little clumsy (hey you  try to manage 50 feet of hair) but she's a goer, a trier.  She's just waiting for her chance for her star to shine.  If you can't get behind this girl you have no heart, no soul.

So now after doing so much right in like five minutes of screen time, the film piles on a great plot of a daring thief, his prize and the deal struck between him and the girl in the tower to see the outside world.  Add to this GREAT songs (no one does show tunes like Disney), a horse that practically acts like a hound dog, and a tavern full of scurvy knaves and you have an incredible film. 

Seriously, the music is great.  I'd put some on here but Disney tends to frown on that.  But go over to you tube and check it out.  Then watch the movie.  Then watch it AGAIN.  Really you do yourself a favor.