The 50th Walt Disney Animated feature since Snow White started it all in 1937, Tangled is a simply wonderful addition to the canon. It looks exquisite – the CGI animation is faultless, and the 3D breathtaking in some scenes. Rapunzel’s hair is so detailed, and the human characters more expressive than any other I’ve seen, including in motion-capture movies like Beowulf.
A princess tale that is also a buddy story between Rapunzel and Flynn Rider, it pleases on all fronts – memorable songs, hilarious sidekick characters (Maximus, the horse who moves like a dog, and Pascal, Rapunzel’s pet chameleon, of all things) who steal every scene, a genuinely heartfelt romance, snappy dialogue and a truly sinister villain.
I couldn’t pick a fault with the whole production, it was just superb. I hope that the next 50 are this good. And I don’t hold much truck with Disney apparently announcing there will be no more princess-centred movies, just because The Princess and the Frog didn’t do so well – they also said that Home on the Range would be the final 2D animation and look how that panned out. Tangled proves that there is life in the Disney princess yet!
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