Tangled

[osprey_archer]

New life goal! I want to grow my hair out so long that I can use it as a grappling hook. If it also gains magical glowing healing powers that would be ace, but I won't insist.

As you might have guessed, I just watched Disney's Tangled and was most favorably impressed. And not just by Rapunzel's hair, though its manifold superpowers (let me repeat

Comments

[mizzmarvel]

Yeah, the ending kind of took away from an otherwise awesome movie. I wish she could have saved herself at the very end.

[osprey_archer]

Yes. I mean, it was clever - you could see that chopping off the magic hair would solve everything, and that it would never, never occur to Rapunzel to cut it off (it certainly hadn't occurred to me that this was a possible solution) - but still, I wish they had come up with another way to end it.

[bogwitch64]

I forgave the handwavery in the ending because I loved the rest of the movie so much. I loved that they left Rapunzel with her "traditional" ditziness. I'm not sure if she was a ditz from inception or she simply evolved that way, but her naivete was, I believe, symbolic. But in this version, despite her ditziness, she never stopped trying. Even when she was scared or doubting, she tried. And, once again, Disney had the princess save herself (for the most part) in the end. I like this trend. :)

[osprey_archer]

I like this trend too!

One thing I like about Disney - and I wish they got more credit for it - is that they are so committed to telling stories for girls and about girls, especially in the last fifteen years. Sometimes they slip up with individual characters, but the overall effect of characters like Rapunzel, Belle, Tiana, Mulan, etc., is that many different kinds of girls (both demographically and in terms of character traits) can be strong and awesome.

[so_december]

I've hardly seen any Disney movies but I'd hardly call their princesses 'Damsels in distress' :)

[osprey_archer]

Yes! I mean, you can see where the criticism is coming from in some of the older movies - Snow White and Cinderella. But still, when Cinderella got the dress she didn't just sit around her scullery and wait to be rescued; she went out there and danced the night away with the prince!