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Am I one of the few that think this was Better than Tangled?

posted 12 years ago by SamRobbeAdams2589
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Hi All,

I find it perplexing how many people go on about Tangled being a near perfect film whilst hitting out at how much of a 'flop' the stunning The Princess and the Frog was...

Now - I cannot fathom why that is.

TPATF is such a beautiful film - well directed, great songs, fantastic plot and it was essentially a film that mirrored the 90s Disney feel. Whereas I found Tangled to be juvenile and not half as engaging - whilst feeling not at all like Disney. The animation fell short in my opinion also.

Overall - I still personally think 2D animation is what Disney should be sticking to in regards to their classic canon films. Whilst their 3D/ Computer generated animation output should be under the Pixar brand. To elaborate - Chicken Little through to Tangled, I feel are more so Pixar in their aesthetics.

Now with films on the horizon such as Frozen - I fear that 2D animation is being disregarded when really the market calls for it - how many other studios are using 2D? Hole in the market anyone!

I am also concerned that these titles are boring. Why not just call them - The Snow Queen or Rapunzel? It feels so stagnant at the moment with these so called genderless titles... A huge WTF is needed there. Genderless? Do not make me laugh.

Does anyone share my thoughts or am I ranting to the wrong crowd?

[–] Stratego (30770) 6 years ago

Good lord, Tangled is SO much better! I can't believe the snowflakes in here with incredibly bad taste and an inability to detect quality.

And FYI, the fairy tale isn't called "The Princess and the Frog" either...

[–] LuckyLucius (342) 5 years ago

In my eyes the reason why The Princess And The Frog is considered to be one of Disney's most underrated films is simply because Disney did not give the film the promotion it deserved and because it had a lot of competition at the box-office with another Disney film the new at the time sequel to Tron and more people saw the Tron sequel than The Princess And The Frog. And although Tiana is a nice and very pretty Disney princess Tiana should've been given more screentime in the movie as a human because it would've been cool to see Tiana cook different foods. Tangled on the other hand was considered the better Disney film because it had great characters and a better musical selection but the main reason why Tangled did so well was because it was actually a film that families could watch together. But the other problem with Tangled was that while it was actually based on Rapunzel Disney couldn't use the name Rapunzel because Mattel Toys owned the rights to Rapunzel when they made the film Barbie As Rapunzel and Disney just changed the title to Tangled. But if you look at it Tangled is so popular that Disney Channel has made a cartoon series based on it called Tangled The Series. But while Tiana is officially part of the Disney Princess brand it is rare to find few toys with her but hopefully due to her appearence in Ralph Breaks The Internet Disney will think very hard about a sequel to The Princess And The Frog someday