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Tangled

TANGLED (Disney, 2010) D: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard, w/ the voices of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi. Rating: NN DVD package: NN Rating: NN


Up against the current best of children’s animation – Up, How To Train Your Dragon, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs – Tangled makes a weak showing. It’s competent and blandly pretty, but only mildly and sporadically funny or thrilling, lacking in memorable songs and not at all heart-tugging.

Rapunzel, 18, lives in a hidden tower with evil Mother Gothel, who stole her in infancy. When Gothel goes out, a thief on the run comes in, and Rapunzel blackmails him into taking her to town.

Mandy Moore gives Rapunzel lots of girlish enthusiasm, and Donna Murphy’s Tallulah Bankhead take on Mother Gothel is creepy fun. But Zachary Levi’s thief comes across as a narcissistic loser from a second-rate rom-com. It kills the love story at the movie’s centre.

Two alternate openings illustrate very little of the creative process.

EXTRAS Alternate openings. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.

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