Rapunzel, Rapunzel~

I've seen Disney's "Tangled" quite a few times, now.  I'm not a fan of how it caters to the lowest common denominator in some cases, but even I have to admit that it's a pretty fantastic movie, for one that was made for children.

The soundtrack is AMAZING.  If nothing else, I watch this movie, glued to the screen, just because I know if I stop to do anything else, I'll miss even part of the beautiful songs.  The characters are really well written, the humour's pretty on cue.  I'm not a huge fan of unnecessarily anthropomorphized animals in kids movies, and I pretty much hate Paskell (the chameleon), but Maximus does a pretty good job as a semi-sentient horse.  He is a little meta, at times, though.

I really appreciate how strong and independent Rapunzel 'tries' to be, despite having been brainwashed her entire life by a bitter old crone.  Having been in a similar situation (albeit less extreme by a long shot), I can hardly imagine where she found the strength to defy her captor the way she did.  She's so pure and strong and capable...you have no idea how much I envy that!!

Btw, pretty off-topic, but I had a similar hairstyle to hers (end movie) when I was 18!  It took all these years to grow it back...I'm no Rapunzel, but it's almost down to my bum again!  When I was little, it went down almost to my knees.  It hasn't been even this long in many many years.  I would love for it to be knee-length again! @_@