Tangled {Movie Review}

I just wanted to take a moment to say that I really enjoyed watching Tangled, the latest Disney movie about Rapunzel. Mildred and I watched it last week during one work night, and we couldn’t stop laughing all throughout the film, especially at the scenes with Maximus the horse. I cried at certain portions, too, but it’s probably just me… I’m such a crybaby like that. I loved the cinematography. Rapunzel’s hair looked so real, and so did those beautiful floating lanterns. Apparently they used CGI in making this film. Cool, huh? We loved the soundtrack, too, so much so that we keep on singing the healing incantation which goes:

Flower, gleam and glow
Let your power shine
Make the clock reverse
Bring back what once was mine
Heal what has been hurt
Change the Fates’ design
Save what has been lost
Bring back what once was mine
What once was mine

On a side note, I wonder if Rapunzel’s hair could also heal broken hearts? Okay if you’re actually familiar with the actual Rapunzel fairytale, you must be scratching your head and going, “Huh? What healing hair?” See, Disney took liberties with the story and did away with the rampions and put a healing flower in its place, giving Rapunzel’s hair healing powers then turning her into a lost princess and her leading man into a badass thief, making it more interesting and exciting. So if you haven’t watched it yet, definitely go and do so, it’s one heck of an entertaining couple of hours or so.

The movie made me reflect on the subject of dreams, especially when Rapunzel said, “I’ve been looking out of a window for eighteen years, dreaming about what I might feel like when those lights rise in the sky. What if it’s not everything I dreamed it would be?” It is a scary thought, that. I think about it all the time. It also made me reflect on the subject of love when this song came on:

I See the Light
All those days watching from the windows

All those years outside looking in
All that time never even knowing
Just how blind I’ve been

Now I’m here, blinking in the starlight
Now I’m here, suddenly I see
Standing here, it’s all so clear
I’m where I’m meant to be

Chorus:
And at last I see the light
And it’s like the fog has lifted
And at last I see the light
And it’s like the sky is new
And it’s warm and real and bright
And the world has somehow shifted
All at once everything looks different
Now that I see you

All those days chasing down a daydream
All those years living in a blur
All that time never truly seeing
Things, the way they were

Now she’s here shining in the starlight
Now she’s here, suddenly I know
If she’s here it’s crystal clear
I’m where I’m meant to go

(Chorus)

One of my biggest dreams is to see the light. But I’m scared because… what if it’s not everything I dreamed it would be? But is that better than never getting the chance to see it at all?

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