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.

Happily N'Ever After

As the title may suggest, this is a movie where the "Happily Ever After" stories get turned upside down!I don't think this is "Cheesy", but this movie was most likely intended for a younger audience.

My little sister was the one who wanted this move, I just stuck around so I could have new blogging material. This movie had it's laugh out loud moments, especially when Robin saw the "Handsome Prince" and asked "Is that a man?" I'm not kidding! After assuring her that he is a guy she replied "Wow, I guess the Prince is a drag queen!" By the way, he wasn't dressed in girl clothes. It was just the hair. Another LOL moment came when Cinderella's stepsisters are arguing over who gets to use the perfume first,(each sister saying that she smells bad and thus needs perfume) then Robin came in the room right when one of the sisters shouted "I smell like a dead pig!" Though I had some laughs, I could never forget to poke some fun at a movie! The trolls looked like Smurfs on steroids wearing little rabbit ears! And of course there was (this being a fairy-tale movie and fairy-tale movies are automatically required to have romance) a cheesy romantic song in which the same line over and over again.....ugh! In case you are wondering, the line was "Do I get what I want, do I want what I get?" This line referring to the Cinderella's choice between the "Handsome" Prince who does the Prince thing (literally) by the book, and the dish washing boy who actually likes her. Blech! Big, big Ewwww! I really really hate romance mushy stuff, who doesn't?