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Tangled is a 2010 American computer-animated fantasy comedy musical film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures and released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The fiftieth feature in the Disney Animated Canon, it is based on the 1812 fairy tale Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm. The film was directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard from a screenplay by Dan Fogelman and features the voices of Zachary Levi, Mandy Moore, and Donna Murphy.

The story centers on Rapunzel, a young princess with magical golden hair who as a child was abducted and locked in a secluded tower by the selfish old woman Mother Gothel. Yearning for adventure, Rapunzel accepts the aid of wanted thief Flynn Rider and escapes the tower to explore the world beyond its walls and solve a mysterious phenomenon that may reveal the truth about her past.

Before the film's release, its title was changed from Rapunzel to Tangled, reportedly to market the film as gender-neutral. Tangled spent six years in production at a cost that has been estimated at 260ドル million which, if accurate, would make it the most expensive animated film ever made at that time. Composer Alan Menken, who had worked on prior Disney animated features, returned to score Tangled.

Tangled premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on November 14, 2010, and went into general release on November 24. The film earned 591ドル million in worldwide box office revenue, 200ドル million of which was earned in the United States and Canada; it was well-received by critics and audiences alike. Tangled was nominated for a number of awards, including Best Original Song at the 83rd Academy Awards. It would go on to become the most successful Disney animated feature film since The Lion King in 1994, both critically and commercially, beginning a new style of marketing and aesthetics for the following computer-animated films from the studio, similarly to how The Little Mermaid impacted the Disney Renaissance.

An animated short sequel was released in 2012. A television spin-off series was broadcast from 2017 to 2020. A live-action remake was announced in 2024, before being suspended the following year and later resumed production.

Plot[ ]

As told through the narrative and perspective of Flynn Rider, hundreds of years ago, a drop of sunlight fell to Earth and blossomed into a magic golden flower, which was found by an old woman named Mother Gothel. Having discovered the healing properties of the flower, she uses it to preserve her youth for centuries, while hiding the flower from the rest of the world. Eventually, a kingdom grows nearby, ruled by a beloved king and queen, who are expecting a child. Near the end of her pregnancy, the queen falls gravely ill, and the king sends his people in search of the magic flower. Gothel fails to hide the flower this time, and it is brought to the royal castle to heal the queen, who soon gives birth to a daughter named Rapunzel. To celebrate her birth, the king and queen launch a floating lantern into the sky. That same night, Gothel sneaks into the castle and discovers that Rapunzel's hair has inherited the healing power of the flower, but loses it as soon as it is cut off. Gothel kidnaps Rapunzel and locks her in a hidden tower deep in the forest, where she raises the princess as her own daughter, while using the power of her hair to stay young. To keep her hidden, Gothel forbids Rapunzel from leaving the tower and lies to her that the outside world is a dangerous place full of selfish people who can steal her hair and use it for their own good. Since then, every year on Rapunzel's birthday, the kingdom releases thousands of floating lanterns in the hope that one day she will return home.

Nearly eighteen years later, Rapunzel grows into a free-spirited young woman with seventy-foot-long hair. Although she finds a friend in a chameleon named Pascal and tries to occupy herself with various activities (such as art and wall painting), Rapunzel gets bored of living in the tower and wants to see the world outside. On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Rapunzel asks Gothel (whom she believes to be her mother) to take her to the "floating lights" that she sees in the sky every year on her birthday, but Gothel refuses and reminds Rapunzel of the "dangers" of the outside world before leaving the tower for a while. Meanwhile, wanted thief Flynn Rider and his accomplices, the Stabbington Brothers, break into the castle and steal the crown of the lost princess, but while they escape from the royal guards through the forest, Flynn abandons the brothers and takes the satchel with the crown with him. Pursued by the horse of the captain of the guards, Maximus, Flynn accidentally discovers the tower and tries to take refuge in it, but Rapunzel knocks him out with a frying pan and hides him in a closet. Rapunzel also tries on the crown that fits her perfectly, much to her surprise, but then hides it and the satchel away.

Rapunzel making a deal with Flynn Rider to take her to the lanterns for the crown.

When her "mother" returns, Rapunzel tries to show her Flynn as proof that she can defend herself, but Gothel declares that Rapunzel will never leave the tower. Rapunzel comes up with a plan to send her "mother" away for three days, asking for new paint as a birthday gift instead. After Gothel leaves, Rapunzel takes the unconscious Flynn out of the closet and ties him to a chair with her hair. When he wakes up, Rapunzel makes a deal with Flynn, promising to return the satchel with the crown to him if he escorts her to see the floating lights (which Flynn reveals are lanterns) and returns her home immediately afterwards. Flynn reluctantly agrees and leaves the tower with Rapunzel and Pascal. While Rapunzel is torn between feelings of liberation and guilt for betraying "mother", Flynn tries to encourage her guilt, hoping to make her renege on their deal. Meanwhile, Gothel encounters a riderless Maximus and, recognizing him as a horse from the castle, hurries back to the tower, where she discovers that Rapunzel has disappeared. Upon finding the crown and a wanted poster of Flynn, Gothel realizes that he has something to do with it, and sets off after him and Rapunzel.

Flynn takes Rapunzel to the Snuggly Duckling, a pub full of thugs, to scare her into returning to the tower, but the thugs try to capture him to get a reward. Rapunzel convinces the thugs to let Flynn go and charms them into revealing their softer sides, much to the surprise of Gothel, who observes from the window. When the guards arrive at the pub, the thugs help Flynn and Rapunzel escape through a secret tunnel, but Maximus discovers it and leads the guards after them, while Gothel learns from one of the thugs about where the tunnel leads. Escaping from the guards, Rapunzel and Flynn find themselves at the dam, where they also confronted by the Stabbingtons. In the ensuing commotion, Maximus accidentally causes the dam to burst, resulting in a huge flood of water falling on everyone, with Rapunzel and Flynn trapped in a rapidly flooding cave. Believing they will drown, Flynn reveals to Rapunzel that his real name is Eugene Fitzherbert, but she uses her hair to light up the cave, allowing them to find a hidden exit underwater and escape.

While waiting for Rapunzel and Eugene at the exit of the tunnel, Gothel encounters the Stabbingtons, who want to take revenge on Eugene for his betrayal, and makes a deal with them to find Rapunzel. Later that night, after building a campfire in the woods, Rapunzel heals Eugene's hand (which he cut when they were trapped in the cave) with her hair, revealing this as the reason why she was not allowed to leave the tower. As they get closer, Eugene shares with Rapunzel his background as an orphan who became a thief and changed his name to Flynn Rider after the hero of a book he read as a child. After Eugene goes to get firewood, Gothel confronts Rapunzel and tries to take her back to the tower, but she refuses, wanting to stay with Eugene. Gothel gives Rapunzel the satchel with the crown and tells her to give it to him to test his loyalty, leaving just before Eugene returns. Beginning to doubt herself, Rapunzel hides the satchel from him. The next morning, Maximus tracks down Eugene and tries to capture him, but Rapunzel manages to befriend the horse and convince him to leave Eugene alone for one more day.

Rapunzel and Eugene confessing their feelings to each other during a boat ride. Rapunzel and Eugene confessing their feelings to each other during a boat ride.

Accompanied by Pascal and Maximus, Rapunzel and Eugene arrive at the kingdom and attend a festival in honor of the lost princess. In the village, Rapunzel sees a mural depicting the princess, but is distracted before she can notice the resemblance between herself and the princess. In the evening, Eugene takes Rapunzel for a rowboat ride around the bay to watch the lanterns being released. When he presents her with a pair of their own lanterns, Rapunzel gives Eugene the satchel with the crown, and they confess their mutual feelings to each other. After noticing the Stabbingtons on the shore, Eugene goes to them to give the crown and apologize, but the brothers show more interest in Rapunzel and her hair, having learned about its power from Gothel. The Stabbingtons knock Eugene unconscious and tie him to a boat, tricking Rapunzel into thinking that he abandoned her. When the brothers try to capture Rapunzel, Gothel stages a rescue and knocks them out. Heartbroken by Eugene's apparent betrayal, Rapunzel follows her "mother" back to the tower, while the boat with Eugene reaches the village pier, where he is arrested by the guards.

The next day, Rapunzel notices that she has subconsciously incorporated the kingdom's emblem, a golden sun, into her artwork throughout her life. After piecing together the other clues (including the mural in the village and the crown fitting her), Rapunzel realizes that she is the lost princess and confronts Gothel, declaring that she will never allow her to use her hair again. Meanwhile, the guards prepare to have Eugene hanged for his crimes, but Maximus and the pub thugs help him escape from prison. Eugene rushes to the tower, where he finds Rapunzel chained up and gagged, but before he can do anything, Gothel fatally stabs him. She then tries to drag the resisting princess away, but Rapunzel promises to willingly go with Gothel and never try to escape again if she allows her to heal Eugene. Gothel reluctantly agrees, but Eugene refuses to let Rapunzel spend the rest of her life in slavery and cuts off her hair before she can save him. With the healing properties of the hair gone, Gothel ages rapidly before falling out of the tower window and crumbling to dust.

Rapunzel tearfully mourns the dying Eugene, and her tear, which still contains some of the healing power of the flower, is able to revive him. Afterwards, Eugene takes Rapunzel to the castle, where she happily reunites with her real parents. With the return of the lost princess, a grand celebration begins throughout the kingdom, while Rapunzel and Eugene (who was pardoned for his crimes) eventually marry and live happily ever after.

Cast[ ]

• Mandy Moore as Rapunzel
  • Delaney Rose Stein as Young Rapunzel
• Zachary Levi as Flynn Rider
• Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel
• Ron Perlman as Sideburns
• M. C. Gainey as Captain of the Guard
• Jeffrey Tambor as Big Nose Thug
• Brad Garrett as Hook Hand Thug
• Paul F. Tompkins as Short Thug
• Richard Kiel as Vlad

Uncredited[ ]

• John DiMaggio as Patchy

Production[ ]

Early development[ ]

Main article: Rapunzel Unbraided

Walt Disney considered developing an animated adaptation of the Brothers Grimm's 1812 fairy tale "Rapunzel" as early as late 1930s; Joe Grant recalled it as one of dozens of stories that were scrutinized and rejected during the feature concept development in 1937 and 1938 (after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ).^[1] The story of Tangled began in 1996, under the guidance of Glen Keane who was, at the time, in the process of developing Tarzan . He continued developing the film until 2008, when suffered from a heart attack. On October 9, 2008, it was reported Glen Keane and Dean Wellins would be stepping down as directors, and were replaced by a new team of Byron Howard and Nathan Greno, director and storyboard director of 2008's Bolt . Keane would stay on as the Executive Producer, and Wellins moved on to developing other short films and feature films.^[2] On April 12, 2007, it was revealed Annie-nominated animator and story artist Dean Wellins will be co-directing the film alongside Glen Keane.

Disney's previous animated feature The Princess and the Frog in 2009, while being highly critically acclaimed and taking in nearly 270ドル million worldwide, was not as successful as Disney had hoped. Disney expressed the belief that the film's emphasis on princesses may have deterred young boys from seeing the film. In order to market the film to both boys and girls, Disney changed the film's name from Rapunzel to Tangled, while also emphasizing Flynn Rider, the film's prominent male character. Disney was criticized for altering the classic title and story as a marketing strategy. Floyd Norman, a former Disney and Pixar animator, said, "The idea of changing the title of a classic like Rapunzel to Tangled is beyond stupid. I'm convinced they'll gain nothing from this except the public seeing Disney as desperately trying to find an audience."

Technical details[ ]

A concept rendering of Rapunzel, demonstrating the "luscious golden hair" Glen Keane wanted. A concept rendering of Rapunzel, demonstrating the "luscious golden hair" Glen Keane wanted.

The movie's visual style is based on the painting "The Swing" by the French Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

Because Glen Keane wanted this to be an animated movie that looked and felt like a traditional hand-drawn Disney Classic in 3D, he first had a seminar called "The Best of Both Worlds", where he, with fifty Disney animators (both CGI and traditional artists), focused on the pluses and minuses of each style. Because of advancements in computer technology, many basic principles of animation used in traditional animated movies, but which have been absent in CGI films due to technical limitations became possible in this field of animation, where they will be used together with the potential offered by CGI. Keane has stated numerous times that he is trying to make the computer "bend its knee to the artist" instead of having the computer dictate the artistic style and look of the film. By making the computer become as "pliable as the pencil," Keane's vision of a "three-dimensional drawing" seems within reach, with the artist controlling the technology. Because many of the techniques and tools required to give the film the quality Keane demanded didn't exist when the project was started, WDFA had to make them on their own.

To create the impression of a drawing, non-photorealistic rendering was used, making the surface look like it is painted, but still containing depth and dimensions.

Glen Keane's daughter, visual development artist Claire Keane, sought to capture Rapunzel's world view: "Rapunzel's walls are really a reflection of what she could see from her window as well as what she was thinking about. There was a definite plan with specific choices made in choosing the colors of Rapunzel's walls. It was important to create how Rapunzel would create, not how I would create, so I had to try a variety of different things that would express her world."^[3]

Music[ ]

Main article: Tangled (soundtrack)

Original music was composed for the movie by Alan Menken with original songs (Music by Menken and lyrics by Glenn Slater). Menken said he attempted to blend medieval music with 1960s folk rock to create the new songs.

Reception[ ]

Critical response[ ]

Tangled received critical acclaim. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 89% of critics have given Tangled a positive review based on 216 reviews, with an average score of 7.5/10. Among Rotten Tomatoes Top Critics, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 90%, based on a sample of 31 reviews. The site's consensus is: "While far from Disney's greatest film, Tangled is a visually stunning, thoroughly entertaining addition to the studio's classic animated canon." Another review aggregator Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score from 0 to 100 out of reviews from mainstream film critics, calculated a score of 71 based on 33 reviews. CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend revealed the average grade cinemagoers gave Tangled was A+ on an A+ to F scale. On IMDb, the film has a 7.8/10 rating with 81,561 ratings.

Release[ ]

Home media[ ]

Main article: Tangled (video)

Tangled was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment as a four-disc combo pack on March 29, 2011. The combo pack includes a Blu-ray 3D, standard Blu-ray, DVD, and digital copy. A two-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack and single DVD are also available. Bonus features for the Blu-ray include deleted scenes, two alternate opening sequences, two extended songs, and an inside look at how the film was made. The DVD includes only the two Original Storybook Openings and the 50th Animated Feature Countdown.

Sales of Tangled in the US and Canada exceeded 95ドル million in DVD and Blu-ray sales, the highest grossing DVD of the year to date; its home video sales exceeded the film's earnings in its first week in theaters. The film sold a record 2,970,052 units (the equivalent of 44,521,079ドル) in its first week in North America, the largest opening for a 2011 DVD. It dominated for two weeks on the DVD sales chart and sold 6,657,331 units (102,154,692ドル) as of July 18, 2012. It has also sold 2,518,522 Blu-ray units (59,220,275ドル) by May 29, 2011.

Gallery[ ]

Trivia[ ]

• Tangled is the eighth Disney Animated Canon film to receive a PG rating, right after The Black Cauldron , Dinosaur , Atlantis: The Lost Empire , Lilo & Stitch , Treasure Planet , Home on the Range , and Bolt .
• This is the first Disney Princess film to be computer-animated.
• This is the first Disney Princess film to receive a PG rating.
• Mother Gothel stabbing Eugene behind his back when he was trying to save Rapunzel is similar to Gaston stabbing the Beast behind his back when Belle was trying to save him in Beauty and the Beast . Both these characters were revived after their deaths if counting the Beast being transformed back into his human self. Coincidentally, their respective murderers also suffer the same fate of falling to their deaths.
• This is the first Disney animated film for Brazil to feature the voices of Rede Globo actor, in this case with Luciano Huck.
• This is the first Disney Princess film to show the lead female wearing diapers as a baby in the prologue.
• This is the sixth Disney Princess film to briefly show blood after Sleeping Beauty , Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas , Mulan , and The Princess and the Frog .
• Rapunzel is 18 years old in the movie, while Eugene turns 26 years old in animated series season three, that takes place 2 years after the movie events. Due to this, they have a 6-year age gap, the largest of any Disney animated couple if not counting Milo J. Thatch and Kida Nedakh in 2001's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (8,768 years).^[4]
• During the song "I See the Light", over 45,000 lanterns were used to light up the night sky.
• The lantern that has the Corona sign that Rapunzel lifts during "I See The Light" is the lantern that the King and Queen of Corona had lifted.
• This is the first film from that studio to be composed by a recurring composer since 2005's Chicken Little (which was composed by John Debney). However, Menken would eventually return to compose a song for Ralph Breaks the Internet (which even features Rapunzel as one of the characters).
• Tangled is the first Disney film based on a fairy tale to not be named after the original title.
• Pinocchio and a statue of The Lion King 's character Pumbaa can be seen during the song "I've Got a Dream".
• When Rapunzel and Flynn are in the library in the kingdom, books with the cover of The Little Mermaid , Mulan, and Beauty and the Beast can be seen in the room.
  • An open book of Sleeping Beauty can be seen as well.
• Events of the movie are often referenced in the spin-off series.
• King Frederic and Queen Arianna have no speaking lines in the film. This makes Tangled the first animated movie to have neither parent of the main character not to have any lines.
  • However, they do speak in the spinoff series.
• This is the first GCI-animated Disney Animated Canon film where its title is abstract instead of being concrete. Interestingly, it was originally going to be titled as Rapunzel during production before settling in for Tangled due to marketing reasons.
  • Ironically, its spinoff series, Tangled: The Series, got renamed as Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure for the remainder of its original run.
• When Rapunzel was introduced, the inside of the tower was bright and full of color. After she returns from seeing the lanterns, it is dull and darkly colored, as a sign she no longer sees it as amazing.
• Whenever Gothel expresses her "love" for Rapunzel, it is to her hair and not directly to her:
  • She often calls Rapunzel "Flower" instead of her real name.
  • She's always stroking and touching her hair when speaking to her, and pats her on the head frequently. After Rapunzel learns her true heritage, she grabs Gothel's wrist to prevent her from touching her, as a sign she doesn't love her anymore.
  • She claims "it never happened" when undoing the flowers in her braid, showing she's back under her control. The braid allowed Rapunzel to move more freely, and such long hair might have hindered her movement.
• The film is referenced in the TV show Brooklynn Nine-Nine. Jake Pareltta calls Rosa Diaz Rapunzel when she has long black hair. He also mentions Mother Gothel and the lanterns that Flynn Rider takes Rapunzel to see on her birthday.
• The storyline of Rapunzel is exactly similar plot in Hercules , both were kidnapped, both found out who they really are, both reunite with their parents, both give up their unique powers (Hercules, god powers, Rapunzel, endless, long grow and glowing hair) to save their partner.
• At the end of the film, Eugene mentioned that it took years for Rapunzel to accept his proposal. The follow up series revealed Eugene asked Rapunzel to marry him on several occasions and she finally said yes after about three years, the length of the show.
• The title is quite ironic considering Rapunzel's hair never gets tangled in any way.
• The scene where Flynn breaks into the Corona Castle by being lowered on a rope is a reference to the Mission Impossible films.
• This is the first Disney Princess film since The Little Mermaid to have a female main antagonist; in this case, it's Mother Gothel, the film's main antagonist.
• This film was released 10 years after Dinosaur , another Disney Animated Canon film which utilizes CGI. Coincidentally, both films have the protagonists being separated from their biological parents and were adopted by those who are different from their root kind.
• This is the first CGI Disney Animated Canon film to not have any science fiction elements (not counting Dinosaur , as it is more of a CGI/live action hybrid film); although Bolt is technically not a sci-fi film itself, it does use sci-fi elements for its own in-universe television series of the same name.
• Interestingly, this film exactly has the same original domestic release date as the 2010 American film Burlesque, which also stars another pop singer; Christina Aguilera, in that other film's case.
• This is the second Disney Princess film where the lead female gets a haircut after Mulan.

Goofs[ ]

• Mother Gothel did not create an alias or false birthday for Rapunzel when realistically, she would have, though an explanation for the latter could be that the lantern display only started to happen annually years afterwards as a memorial so she never took it into account.
• Rapunzel was able to swim, yet she never had access to a body of water and therefore would not have known how.
  • The most likely explanation is that she might have been allowed to learn to do so in the valley around the tower.
• Rapunzel looked a lot older for being a newborn and was able to remember when she was whereas a real human would not, though this is probably because of the magic.
• Rapunzel had no proof that she was the lost princess, yet she was instantly accepted.
• When Gothel stabbed Flynn in the back with a knife, no blood was seen on it.

References[ ]

External links[ ]

• Wikipediafavicon Tangled (2010 film) on Wikipedia
• Disney.com Tangled on Disney.com
• YouTube icon 2D screen test clip for the film Tangled on YouTube
• Tangled favicon Tangled on Tangled Wiki

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