- Also known as:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2010
- Country/ies of Origin:
- USA
- Predominant Genre:
- Romance
- Best Performance(s):
- Unknown
- Plot:
- Rapunzel, a tower-bound teen with long magical, golden hair, is locked away in a tower for years; before being rescued and setting-off on an action-packed escapade.
- Theme(s):
- Personal change
- Self-expression
- Compassion
- Similar To (in Plot, Theme & Style):
- Princess Bride
- Review Format:
- DVD
Not even as good as The Princess Bride, the special effects are fun but never terribly realistic. Inanimate objects move more realistically than living beings because CGI is no good at depicting subtlety.
Self-referential humor proves that US screenwriters have run out of European fairy tales of abusive stepmothers to plunder. This is exacerbated by the kind of bland, tuneless songs that explain why musicals are an essentially dead form in modern (2014) cinema.
Above all else, this movie fundamentally lacks a decent story and characters; hoping that amusing humor will save the day. Dei ex machina are employed to save the central characters; rendering them ineffective of personal agency and, thus, of audience empathy.
Walt Disney would turn in his grave if he ever saw this dreck.
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