recently, my kids were tied to their sits and sometimes never flick an eye. they were watching the newly download movie "TANGLED" from my younger sister. Tangled is an animated movie based and modfified version of the children's story Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm. The voices used for the main character from the movie who are Rapunzel & Flynn Rider are of Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi.the movie is funny and fun. even me is enjoying watching it. i love the part where the intelligent palace's horse named Maximus run after the handsome theif Flynn Rider who stole the lost princess's crown from the palace. it is funny because the horse is acting like a dog. it animates the dog's action like tracking his hated foe (Flynn Rider) using his nose and the way it wiggles his tail. Addition to his character is that it has an attitude. my kids are laughing out everytime Maximus appears in the screen.
the songs played in the movie, i love it all.
The Plot
Gothel, an elderly woman, witnesses a single drop of pure sunlight hit the ground. From the single drop it grows a magical flower with the ability to heal the sick and injured. She uses it to keep herself young by singing an incantation to it. Hundreds of years later, the queen of a nearby kingdom falls ill while pregnant. Her guards, searching for a cure, find the mysterious flower. They make a broth out of the flower, which heals the queen. The queen gives birth to a babygirl named Rapunzel and the baby inherit the power of the golden flower through her golden hair. Gothel learns that Rapunzel's golden hair retains the flower's healing abilities, but if it's cut, it turns brown and loses its magic power. Gothel kidnaps the child and isolates her in a tower in the middle of the forest, raising the girl as her own daughter. However, every year on Rapunzel's birthday, the kingdom sends thousands of sky lanterns into the sky longing for their lost princess to return.
Eighteen years later, Rapunzel lives in the tower with her pet chameleon, Pascal. While happy to be safe in her tower, she yearns to see the outside world, and more importantly, the floating lights. Rapunzel asks Gothel to let her see the floating lights on her birthday, but Gothel denies her request, saying the world is full of people who would covet her abilities for themselves. Meanwhile, thieves led by Flynn Rider steal the tiara of the missing princess from the castle. Flynn abandons his accomplices and stumbles upon Rapunzel's tower, choosing it as a hideout. During the chase, the lead guard's horse, Maximus, is separated from his rider and continues the search for Flynn on his own. Once inside the tower, Flynn is knocked unconscious by Rapunzel, who then imprisons him in her wardrobe and hides his satchel.
Rapunzel tried to tell Gothel that she was able to take care of herself and show her Flynn, but Gothel refuses to listen. Frustrated, Rapunzel says that she wants a special paint for her birthday instead of her earlier request. Gothel agrees, and after she leaves, Rapunzel makes a deal with Flynn — if he escorts her to the lights and back, she will return the tiara. While Rapunzel is excited to be free, she is soon conflicted between her freedom and her guilt of disobedience. While traveling, the two visit the Snuggly Duckling Tavern, which appears to be full of thugs like Gothel warned Rapunzel about, but they all each have their own dreams, just as Rapunzel does.
As the royal guards continue their search, Gothel learns of the pursuit, returns to the tower and finds Rapunzel gone. The tavern regulars help the pair escape from the guards, but they eventually corner Flynn at a man-made dam, which Maximus inadvertently causes to collapse. Trapped in a flooding cave, Flynn cuts his hand while trying to save them. Thinking they are going to die, Flynn tells Rapunzel that someone should know his real name is Eugene Fitzherbert, and Rapunzel tells Flynn she has magic hair that glows when she sings. She starts singing and her hair allows them to find a way to escape. Later around a campfire, Rapunzel heals Flynn's cut, telling him the reason she never tried to escape her tower and Flynn tells her his reason for becoming a thief. Flynn goes off to gather more firewood, but while he's gone, Gothel secretly meets with Rapunzel. Rapunzel tells Gothel she has feelings for Flynn, and thinks he may feel the same about her. Gothel tells Rapunzel that Flynn is only after the tiara, claiming that he will leave once he has it. Giving her the satchel, she tells Rapunzel to put him to the test before leaving.
The next morning, Maximus confronts Flynn again, but Rapunzel befriends the horse and convinces him not to turn in Flynn yet. The group travels together to the royal kingdom and spend the day celebrating the Lantern Festival wit the rest of the townsfolk. Here, Rapunzel learns about the lost princess for the first time. That night, Rapunzel and Flynn watch the lanterns rise from a boat on a lake. Flynn gives Rapunzel a lantern for her to release and in return she gives him his satchel back. Flynn pushes the satchel aside and attempts to kiss Rapunzel, but sees his former accomplices on the shore. Flynn gives them the tiara, but the pair are now working with Gothel. They knock out Flynn and make it appear that he is escaping with the tiara by tying him up in a boat and sailing him across the lake. They reveal Flynn's "betrayal" to Rapunzel before they try to kidnap her so they could sell her hair's power. Betraying the thieves, Gothel "rescues" the heartbroken Rapunzel and takes her back to the tower. Meanwhile, Flynn wakes up but is caught by the guards. Maximus sees Flynn's arrest and overhears him saying that Rapunzel is in danger. Flynn is sentenced to be hanged and learns of the treachery from the now-captured henchmen. Maximus, however, rounds up The Snuggly Duckling regulars and they rescue Flynn. Together they ride to the tower.
Meanwhile, Rapunzel realizes that she is the long-lost princess, and confronts Gothel with the revelation, saying she will never let her use her hair again. Flynn reaches the tower, but upon entering, he sees Rapunzel bound and gagged and is stabbed by Gothel. She attempts to take Rapunzel away to a new hiding place, but Rapunzel promises to keep fighting her unless she allows her to heal Flynn. Gothel agrees, but Flynn, saying that he would rather die than have her trapped forever, cuts her hair short with a piece of broken mirror. The healing power is gone and as a result, Gothel rapidly begins to age. While covering her face, she trips on the cut hair and falls from the tower. She disintegrates before reaching the ground. Flynn and Rapunzel reveal their love for each other, before he dies. Heartbroken, Rapunzel sobs the last word of the healing incantation over his body. A tear containing the last of Rapunzel's healing powers lands on his cheek and revives him. Overjoyed, they share their first kiss. The royal family has a tearful reunion, the king and queen pulling Flynn into their embrace. Flynn After a celebration of Rapunzel's return, Flynn (the narrator throughout the movie) reveals that some years later he and Rapunzel are married, the pub thugs fulfill their individual dreams, and Maximus becomes a respected official on the Royal Guard.
REFERENCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangled#Plot
