365 Days. 365 Films.

Based on the fairy tale classic of Rapunzel comes Tangled, a sassy and hilarious spin about a lost princess with magical hair. Captured as a baby by an evil witch, Rapunzel is being used for her healing powers, giving eternal youth to who she believes to be her mother. One day, a handsome (and very aware of it!) thief stumbles across Rapunzel’s tower to hide out from a horse who is on his tracks, and after an over-exaggerated frying pan joke, they make a deal – Flynn Rider will take Rapunzel out of her tower for the first time and into the village where she will see the ‘floating lights’, a mass of lanterns that are sent into the sky every year on Rapunzel’s birthday in an attempt to find her. For her part of the bargain, Rapunzel will return Flynn’s satchel containing a tiara he had stolen not long before they met.

I knew the story before I even watched this film, and I knew from the trailers that it wasn’t going to be a Disney Classic in the same way that Beauty & The Beast is or The Little Mermaid – it just seemed like the wrong style of comedy for it. Instead, after about 20 minutes of watching this my anxiety waned and I realised that they had combined two of Disney’s best features – the spunky comedy of Pixar with the classic, romantic touch of Disney Classics. I initially thought it would be embarrassing to watch Disney try to recapture their best days producing the classically animated Disney Princess stories, since they had done so well with Pixar and audiences would be expecting something similar these days.

I was wrong, and Disney have done it again – it’s sassy, modern, hilarious and hip – just what you want for a kid’s film!