Since Harry Potter’s new movie came out last week, the internet is buzzing with reviews about the new movie, but I’m not going to write about that. Here’s a review of another movie, not as popular but surprisingly made Harry Potter a run for its money.
Tangled a Rapunzel Story, is by it’s name a Rapunzel story. You know who is Rapunzel right? No need for history lesson here. However, this fairy tale has a twist. Not a typical prince meet tower with a long hair girl in it.
In this movie, Rapunzel was born a princess and a magical one too. She was born with a magical hair, which has the gift to heal anything, even life, how this come to be? Well it has to do with a magical flower. In order for the hair to work, you'll need to sing a very special song. A wicked old lady, first found out about the magical power of the princess, decide to stole her, to use her power for her own personal greed, to stay young forever.
For years she had kept it a secret from Rapunzel, but Rapunzel is a wild and imaginative girl, that has been dreaming of stepping outside the tower to view the world, especially the “flying light” on the sky, no not the star, it’s actually lanterns made by Rapunzel’s parents, the king and queen, hoping that Rapunzel sees it and come home.
Then fate intertwine when a young man (not a hero in this story) called Flynn Rider, running from the law came to the tower, and discovered Rapunzel. Sensing this is fate’s way telling her to go outside the tower; she finally steps out on a journey to fulfilling her dream. I would not like to spoil it for everybody, you have to watch it to follow the adventures, and see what happen in the end.
The story is a classic tale with a twist from Disney. It was a surprise when the opening week in US gross about USD49 millions, just short of Harry Potter’s weekend opening (USD51 millions). Rapunzel is voice by Mandy Moore, so you can expect the singing is real, while Flynn Rider is voice by Zachary Levi.
But, knowing best from all previous Disney classic tales, you know how the story goes. First you met the hero/heroine, some adventures, sad twist, and then a happy ending. However, the best part of all Disney’s classic tale is the adventures. In this movie it will be filled with many laugh and crazy things that you wouldn’t imagine. The best part of the movie is a genius use of animal as the catalyst for laughter, yes animal!
There will be adventure, where you hold your breath, singing and dancing to the song, humming even after the movie ended, romance where the kid fell icky and close their eyes, hehehe. All and all this is very great movie to get your kid to watch other than Harry Potter. You won’t regret having another view of fairy tale; told from modern point of view.
This is a solid 4/5 stars.
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