Tangled

I did not want to watch this movie. But my mom told me "This movie is different!" I belived it and watched it with her and Sadie. It started with the line "This is the story of how I died." When I heard that I thought "Wow....could this be an actual good Disney movie(I don't count the stuff they did with Pixar because I suspect that Pixar did most of the work). This movie was not good....not good at all. The songs are cheesy and honestly a computer animated musical just looks and comes off as really weird, in a bad way.

In the original Rapunzel story Rapunzel's name made more sense because her mother craved an herb named Rapunzel(thus the child's name was Rapunzel).Also the person who kept Rapunzel in the tower actually did so to keep her safe from the world (don't all moms do that to a point?), that just seems more noble to me.

There is a super distracting inconsistency with the length of Rapunzel's hair. First its almost a mile long, then suddenly it's only a couple feet long! It was distracting and such a simple mistake that little kids are probably noticing and bugging their parents about it("Why is her hair different mommy?") The hair issue is not the thing that bugs me the most though.

Disney movies tend to have a big impact on children. I grew up watching "The Little Mermaid", "Bambi" and "Alice in Wonderland". To this day I love the Ocean and think of it as a beautiful mysterious paradise,(until I remember BP) I think of the forest and the wilderness in general as a wonderful place that will one day replace cities once people stop abusing nature. As for "Alice in Wonderland"...... I space out often and I think up some realy wierd stuff:

Any way, my point is that kids watching this movie will be affected by it for a long time. What I picked up from this: Eighteen year old girls can have perfect romantic relationships with twenty-something year old guys who they barley know, If you shout at big scary people in a shady bar they will start to sing and Death is not real because blond hair magic can bring dead things back to life no matter what.....need I say anymore? Disney hasn't had a "real" protagonist death since Bambi. I know it was sad when Bambi's mother died, but it might help children learn about death and except it. In every other Disney movie I have seen only the bad guys die and that sends the wrong message. I guess that's just me though....Disney probably wanted people to buy the DVD, and Tangled wasn't good enough to get away with a protagonist death(again, something Bambi managed to do).

Another reason Bambi is way better is the final ending image, In the final scene of Bambi we see grown up Bambi silhouetted against the sunrise looking proudly down upon his offspring. In Tangled's final scene we see a drunk old man dressed as a cupid tied to some floating lanterns. I am not making this up! Watch the movie if you don't believe me!

That's all I have to say.

Hercules(saw it only because we put it on for my little sister)

I was going to do a review on "The Last Airbender" but this movie was so annoyingly stupid that I needed to say what was bugging me about it before I started ranting. The first problem that comes to mind is well, how can I put this? THE ENTIRE DANG PLOT!!! The plot is that Hades wants to overthrow Zeus(sound familiar?). When his chance to do so will arrive in eighteen years(the time when the location of the evil Titans is revealed)Hercules is destined to defeat him in battle. So Hades sends his minions Pain and Panic to turn baby Hercules mortal and then kill him. But then they fail to make Hercules drink the entire bottle of anti-immortality potion. Thus Hercules is mortal, has Godlike-strength and cannot return to Mount Olympus until he proves himself as a Hero. Does it sound like a good enough plot? Let me point out the big flaw. This flaw, to me simply jumps out of the movie and screams in my face "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE MOVIE!!!"

Here are the two biggest problems:

1.The Gods want Hercules to come back, but he can't come to Olympus if he's mortal. The Gods are GODS! They can do whatever the heck they want! They could have made the world out of Jello and made Cabbage Moths the dominant species! Why can't the Gods turn one Mortal into an Immortal?

2.If Hades has some anti-immortality potion lying around, why doesn't he just slip it into Zeus's wine while he's not looking? It's simple logic. Like this: I have a sandwich. I am hungry. I will place a piece of sandwich in my mouth, chew and swallow. To make the hunger go away, I repeat step three until the sandwich is gone.

One last thing is bugging me, Hercules's girlfriend sounds like she has something up her nose. To listen to her voice is like hearing a screeching car in the distance only it doesn't ever fade away.

The little mermaid

My God! I forgot how annoying Ariel's voice sounded! Oh, right......Movie review, not song review. My memory is a little fuzzy when it comes to the plot and stuff. So I will type the review as the movie plays(I put it on for my little sister Sadie). On the Storm scene......very dramatic...I like this part, the suspense! The ship is on fire and falling apart!!! I have to hand it to Disney, when they're not sexist they are pretty good! But Arel's voice continues to be super annoying! Oh God she's so girlie! Oooooh! Under the Sea! Awesome! The only song worth listening to in this movie! You know...I think this movie is the reason I think the Ocean is so awesome! The music is over, bummer. Sebastian is about to blow it(by witch I mean blab about Ariel in love with a human). He blew it. Her Dad just found her collection of people junk. Aw gees! Why does Disney have to paint parents as the bad guys? The part where the Eels tempt Ariel to come to the Ursala is pretty cool. Who ever did their voices s very talented! Maybe this movie isn't as bad as I thought. Come to think of it, I think the only thing wrong with it is the annoying voice of Ariel! The rest of the movie is great! Especially Ursala's musical number! Oh yeah, and the story is is based on an old story that was around for hundreds of years before movies! all in all this is OK. I'm not going to stoop down to making a negative review just because it's a Disney movie that's not The Lion King. By the way, sorry about the comic. I messed up with the uploading images and got that thing by mistake.