Disney's new Tangled starts off a little slow, and finishes a overly predictably, and has pretty much exactly the plot you would expect. But it is told so very, very well. This movie has mastered the running gag. There are several and they are all very funny. But this is only the beginning of Tangled's brilliance.
All of its brilliance is in the humor. It is filled with dry wit and physical humor to satisfy anyone but the grouchy lady who sat in front of me and demanded that I shut up my laughter. She was funny too. If the movie had stuck there, it would have been straight through brilliant. But, it doesn't. It falters once or twice when it tries to be sincerely romantic. It fails worse than a pick-up line on a park bench.
Tangled is a movie designed to resurrect the Disney princess in the age of computer animation and pre-teen puberty. It takes a little from Shrek, a little from How to Train Your Dragon, and doesn't quite measure up to either. Though it is a little funnier than Mike Myers' movie, it wont have the replay value. It's linage, while supplying some very choice jokes, is the greatest detraction from an otherwise wonderful film. It holds it back. Rapunzel will join Belle and Cinderella among Disney's best, but will likewise be remembered as just a princess with scarily large eyes.
But it is very, very Funny. "Hilarious". If that is what you are here for, you will not be disappointed.
Short Analysis:
In the very end, they had a good joke. It wasn't a great joke. It is a somewhat old joke. But I was disappointed that they killed it. It ends with the same narration that begins the movie, that of the hero-man Eugene. And he says that, after asking and asking him to marry her, he finally says yes to Rapunzel. Ha ha. But immediately re-establishes the expected norm by saying, no, he did actually ask her.
What a pisser.
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