Tangled Disney Wiki FANDOM powered by Wikia. Tangled. Gross revenue5. Tangled is a 2. 01. American computer animated, musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, based on the story Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm, starring Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi. It is the 5. 0th animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon and the second film in, what is considered to be, the Disney Revival era, and was released on November 2. North America. The film tells the story of the long lost princess Rapunzel, who yearns to leave her secluded tower for an adventure. Against her stepmothers wishes, she accepts the aid of a handsome intruder, Flynn Rider, to take her out into the world which she has never seen. Before the films release, its title was changed from Rapunzel to Tangled, reportedly to market the film as gender neutral. Tangled spent six years in production at a cost that has been estimated at 2. Composer Alan Menken, who had worked on prior Disney animated features, returned to score Tangled. Tangled premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on November 1. November 2. 4. The film earned 5. United States and Canada it was well received by critics and audiences alike. Tangled was nominated for a number of awards, including Best Original Song at the 8. Academy Awards. Tangled would go on to become the most successful Disney animated feature film since The Lion King in 1. The Little Mermaid impacted the Disney Renaissance. An animated short sequel Tangled Ever After, was released in 2. In 2. 01. 7, a made for television sequel film Tangled Before Ever After premiered as a pilot for an animated spin off series centering Rapunzel and Eugenes adventures after the film. Plot. The movie begins with Flynn Rider narrating, explaining how hundreds of years ago, a single drop of sunlight fell to Earth and bloomed into a magical golden flower. The flower is found by an old woman named Mother Gothel, who sings the song Healing Incantation to it, causing it to restore her youth and beauty. In this way, she lives for hundreds of years, keeping the flower hidden and never sharing it with anyone. Flynn goes on to tell how the king and queen of the land were expecting a child, but the queen became very sick, and the king sent out his people to search for the legendary golden flower, which was rumored to possess powerful powers that had the ability to heal. Gothel soon realizes what they are looking for, and hides the flower under a false shrubbery, as she is unwilling to share it with anyone. However, Gothel knocks the shrub away by accident when fleeing, causing the flowers glow to be visible in the darkness. The kings guards uproot the flower and bring it back to the palace, where it is fed to the queen, who survives and gives birth to a daughter, princess Rapunzel. The little princess is born with beautiful golden hair that glows with the magic of the flower. In honor of her birth, the king and queen release a floating lantern into the sky. That night, an already aging Gothel sneaks into the palace and cuts a piece of Rapunzels hair to use instead of the flower. Though when she cuts it, the lock of hair turns dark brown. Gothel realizes that cutting Rapunzels hair causes it to lose its power, and so she kidnaps the princess, escaping out the window with her. Flynns narration explains that she locked her away in a hidden tower and raised her as her own child, having Rapunzel sing the healing song to restore Gothels youth. Comprehensive guide to movies and TV on DVD and Bluray, with daily news, detailed DVD and Bluray reviews, uptodate release schedules and lists, announcements. Every year afterward, on the princess birthday, the kingdom would release hundreds of flying lanterns as a symbol of hope that the lost princess would return to them. Rapunzel is hidden in a tower far from the castle for 1. Eighteen years later, we cut to an older Rapunzel, who still lives in the tower with her only friend, a chameleon named Pascal. Rapunzel is cheerful but clearly bored with her dull life, which she describes in the song, When Will My Life Begin Her hair has grown to be seventy feet long and extremely strong, and she loops it through a system of pulleys and hooks to hoist herself up and get around the tower. One of the things she does to occupy her time is painting, and her entire tower room is covered in pictures that shes drawn. One of the pictures she paints is of herself looking up at hundreds of glowing lights, which are the lights she sees in the sky every year on her birthday. She tells Pascal that today is the day and shes finally going to do it. Outside, Gothel has arrived at the base of the tower, and she calls up to Rapunzel to let down her hair. She has Rapunzel loop her hair to make a sling to pull her up and in, and proceeds to emotionally abuse Rapunzel putting her down and making fun of her and then laughing it off. Rapunzel believes that Gothel is her real mother and that she loves her, but it is clear that Gothel only cares about her magical hair. Rapunzel mentions that her birthday is the next day, and what she really wants is to go see the lights in the sky because she believes that theyre connected to her somehow. Gothel tells her theyre just stars and gets angry at her for wanting to go out, and sings, Mother Knows Best, a song about how the world is a horrible and dangerous place and how she only wants to protect Rapunzel, who is too gullible and helpless to defend herself. She ends the song by harshly telling her to never ask to leave the tower again, to which Rapunzel agrees, her earlier courage having faded. Gothel then leaves the tower. Meanwhile, Flynn is sneaking across the palace roof with two other thieves, the twin Stabbington Brothers Ron Perlman. They lower Flynn in through the roof and he steals the crown of the lost princess, although he is seen and they end up being chased out of the palace and through a forest. They find a tree covered in wanted posters of the three of them, and Flynn takes one and acts upset, but it turns out to have been only because his nose was drawn incorrectly. Still being chased, they reach a steep wall that appears to be a dead end, and Flynn tells the twins to give him a boost over the wall. They suspect hes just going to run off with the crown and leave them to be caught, but he convinces them to trust him and then does exactly that. Flynn then runs through the forest being chased by both the guards and the twins, as well as the leader of the guards horse, Maximus. Maximus has an elevated sense of smell and can track Flynn by scent, and catches up to him even when he outruns the others. In the resulting struggle, the satchel with the princess crown inside of it nearly falls over a cliff, catching at the last minute on a branch sticking out of the side of the cliff. In trying to retrieve it, Flynn and Maximus both fall off the cliff. Download Film Legend Of Frosty The Snowman. Neither are hurt, but Flynn still has to escape Maximus. Dvd Movie Tangled Ever After ' title='Dvd Movie Tangled Ever After ' />He finds what appears to be a rock wall, but turns out to just be a very thick curtain of vines covering the mouth of a small cave. He uses the cave to hide while Maximus searches outside, and then escapes through the tunnel, ending up in a small clearing. Rapunzels tower standing in the center. Deciding that it looks like a perfect place to hide, he scales the side using arrows and ends up right in Rapunzels bedroom. He opens his satchel to look at the crown he just got away with. Rapunzel hits him in the back of the head with her frying pan, knocking him out. Rapunzel has never seen anyone other than Gothel before, and at first, shes convinced hes one of the monsters her mother said lived outside the tower. Once she realizes that hes just another person, she hides him inside of her wardrobe, with some difficulty. After she finally gets him stuffed inside, she finds his satchel with the lost princess crown, although she has never seen a crown before and doesnt know what it is. She tries to wear it in a few different ways before setting it on her head, just as she hears Gothel calling to her from outside. She hides the crown and satchel and brings Gothel up the tower. Read reviews, watch trailers and clips, find showtimes, view celebrity photos and more on MSN Movies.