Tangled

Disney's 50th Animated Motion Picture Feature is excellent film!  It is a mixture of the old school, Princess stories and the new action/comedy done in CGI.  I have to say the CGI is immaculate.  The colours are fantastic and the depth of the image and the detail is exquisite.  I suppose it had to be to be successful as a 3D film. Unfortunately I only got to see it last night on DVD, but it looked brilliant on my telly.
Tangled is the story of Rapunzel but updated to a more Disney Princess story.  It is the story of a girl trapped away from the outside world who wants to get out and is given the opportunity when a theif trying to escape the guards, accidentally stumbles on Rapunzel's Tower.  Of course nothing is simple as she was stolen away by Mother Gothel, who needs Rapunzel's magic hair to stay young.  The chase is on.
The story is reminiscent of any parent's nightmare of their young daughter being protected from the outside world, defying their wishes to follow a boy and then fighting with the parent and saying very hurtful things.  Of course, Mother Gothel is no model parent but this was very well portrayed.  Also, it was great the way they showed the young's over-confidence and almost immediate swing to insecurity and back again.
I loved the way the character's were drawn, especially Rapunzel's HUGE eyes.
The characters were voiced by Mandy Moore as Rapunzel; Zachary Levi as our hero, Flynn Rider; Donna Murphy does a spectacular job as Mother Gothel (her singing voice is magnificent!); Ron Perlman plays the dual role of Flynn's 'partners', the Stabbington Brothers; Jeffrey Tambor, Brad Garrett and Richard Kiel all supply voices of thugs!
For their 50th animated feature it was great to see them return to the classic sounds with Alan Menken doing the music and it shows.  There are some great numbers in here, 'When Will My Life Begin?'is reminiscent of Cinderella; Donna Murphy does a magnificent job with 'Mother Knows Best', rounded out with 'I've Got a Dream' (lots of fun in the pub!) and 'I See The Light'.  Whiel these songs and the music is very good, it is just not memorable.  There doesn't appear to be a theme that grabbed me.  In the old days, when you thought of a Disney movie, you could probably hum the tune for the theme.  I couldn't tell you what it was for this.  And it is for this reason alone, I can't give this film the 10/10 it so deserves.  For me, Tangled is brilliant Disney and is a very worthy 9/10.
On an end note, for the 50th animated feature, the DVD sucked.  The only extras were a couple of different versions of the beginning (the King stole the flower off Mother Gothel, no wonder she stole the baby!), a VERY quick retrospective of all 50 Disney animated films (and I do mean quick, perhaps a second or two per film!  Look it up on YouTube) and for some incomprehensible reason, a Czechoslovakian version of a song from the soundtrack?!?  WTF??!!  And that is it!?  Pathetic really.  I hope the Blu-Ray has more in it.