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This article is about the 2010 animated film. For the 2001 film, see Tangled (2001 film). For the album by Jane Wiedlin, see Tangled (album).
Tangled
File:Tangled poster.png
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNathan Greno
Byron Howard
Screenplay byDan Fogelman
Produced byRoy Conli
John Lasseter
Glen Keane
StarringMandy Moore
Zachary Levi
Donna Murphy
Narrated byZachary Levi
Edited byTim Mertens
Music bySongs:
Alan Menken
Glenn Slater (Lyrics)
Score:
Alan Menken
Production
company
Distributed byWalt Disney Pictures
Release date
  • November 24, 2010 (2010-11-24)
Running time
100 minutes[1]
CountryTemplate:Film US
LanguageEnglish
Budget$260 million[2][3]
Box office$590,721,936[3]

Tangled is a 2010 American computer animated fantasy musical/comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It is the 50th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The film features the voices of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi and Donna Murphy and is loosely based on the German fairy tale "Rapunzel" by the Brothers Grimm.[4]

The film was originally titled and marketed as Rapunzel until it was changed to Tangled shortly before its release. It premiered in theatres and in 3D cinemas on November 24, 2010,[5] after six years of production and a cost that has been estimated at $260 million[2] which, if accurate, would make it the most expensive animated film ever made, as well as the second most expensive film ever made, behind Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

Plot

A drop of sunlight falls to the ground and grows into a magical flower with the power to heal the sick and injured. An old woman named Gothel finds it and uses it to keep herself young for years by singing an incantation. Centuries pass and a kingdom grows. The Queen becomes ill during childbirth, and so the flower is found. She is healed and gives birth to a daughter they name Rapunzel, whose golden hair is now the source of the magical power. Later that night, Gothel kidnaps Rapunzel and hides her in a tall tower, raising her as her own child. Gothel knows that if Rapunzel's hair is cut, it will turn brown and lose its magic, so Rapunzel's hair is left to grow. Every year on Rapunzel's birthday, her kingdom sends thousands of lanterns into the sky in hopes that the lost princess will return. On her eighteenth birthday, Rapunzel asks Gothel to let her see the floating lights, but Gothel refuses, telling her that the world is full of dangers.

Meanwhile, a group of thieves led by charismatic Flynn Rider steal the tiara of the missing princess from the castle. During the ensuing chase, a horse named Maximus is separated from his rider, the Captain of the Guards, and continues the search for Flynn on his own. Flynn outwits his accomplices by taking the tiara; he abandons them and stumbles upon Rapunzel's tower. Once inside the tower, Flynn is knocked unconscious by Rapunzel with a frying pan. She hides Flynn inside her closet and confiscates the tiara.

When Gothel returns, Rapunzel requests a special paint made from some shells on a beach, three days away, as a birthday present. Gothel leaves for a three-day journey to bring the gift. Rapunzel makes a deal with Flynn: a journey to the "lights" in exchange for the tiara. Flynn attempts to make Rapunzel end their journey by taking her to the Snuggly Duckling Parlor, which is full of Viking thugs, but the thugs are charmed by Rapunzel, who encourages them to follow their dreams.

Gothel sees Maximus riderless and worries someone will find Rapunzel. She returns to the tower to find Rapunzel gone. Meanwhile, the guards invade the tavern, but the thugs help the pair escape. The pursuit ends at a dam, which Maximus causes to collapse. Flynn and Rapunzel are trapped in a flooding cave. Believing he's about to die, Flynn admits his true name: Eugene Fitzherbert. Rapunzel admits she has magic hair that glows when she sings. When it glows, they find a way out. Later around a campfire, Rapunzel heals Eugene's injury with her magic hair. When Eugene goes to gather firewood, Gothel secretly meets Rapunzel. Gothel tells Rapunzel that Eugene doesn't care for her and merely wants the tiara; giving her the tiara, Gothel insists that Rapunzel test Eugene by giving it to him.

The next morning, Maximus confronts Eugene, but to Eugene's dismay Rapunzel befriends the horse. The three arrive at the kingdom and that night Eugene takes Rapunzel to see the lanterns. There, Rapunzel gives Eugene back his tiara. Eugene spies his former accomplices and leaves Rapunzel waiting as he gives them the tiara back. However, the pair knock him out, tie him on a boat and sail him across the lake. They reveal Eugene's "betrayal" to Rapunzel as they attempt to kidnap her for her hair's power, but Gothel rescues her and they return to the tower. Later, Eugene is arrested and sentenced to death. Maximus brings the Snuggly Duckling Parlor thugs to rescue Eugene, and horse and rider race back to the tower.

From various clues she finds during her adventure, Rapunzel realizes she is the long-lost princess and attempts to flee the tower. Gothel binds her, and when Eugene arrives, Gothel stabs him. Rapunzel swears to keep fighting Gothel unless she is allowed to heal Eugene's wound. Gothel agrees, but before Rapunzel heals him, Eugene cuts her hair short with a piece of broken mirror. Rapunzel's hair turns brown and loses its magic. Gothel rapidly begins to age. While delirious, she trips and falls from the tower, turning into dust before she hits the ground.

Eugene slowly dies in Rapunzel's arms. Heartbroken, she cries, and a teardrop filled with her magic lands on his cheek and revives him when she sings the incantation in sorrow. The two embrace and kiss. Back at the kingdom, the royal family has a tearful reunion and the king and queen pull Eugene into their embrace. Years later, Eugene and Rapunzel are married. Along the way, the Viking thugs fulfill their individual dreams, and Maximus becomes a respected official on the Royal Guard. The film ends with Eugene and Rapunzel sharing their second screen kiss.

Cast

Additional Voices by Michael Bell, Bob Bergen, Susan Blakeslee, June Christopher, Roy Conli, David Cowgill, Terri Douglas, Chad Einbinder, Pat Fraley, Eddie Frierson, Jackie Gonneau, Nicholas Guest, Bridget Hoffman, Daniel Kaz, Anne Lockhart, Scott Menville, Mona Marshall, Laraine Newman, Paul Pape, Lynwood Robinson, Fred Tatasciore, Kari Wahlgren and Hynden Walch.

Non-speaking animal characters include Pascal, Rapunzel's chameleon friend, and Maximus, the horse of the head of the palace guard. Also featured in non-speaking roles are Rapunzel's parents, the King and Queen, and Ulf, the Mime Thug. Additionally, only one of the two Stabbington Brothers speaks throughout the film.

Following a revision in the script, the thief's original name, "Bastion," was changed to "Flynn," paying homage to early Hollywood actor Errol Flynn, with whom the character shares similar characteristic traits.[citation needed]

Moore, Levi and Murphy replaced the originally announced voice actors Kristin Chenoweth, Dan Fogler and Grey DeLisle.

Production

According to the Los Angeles Times, Tangled was in development for six years and cost more than $260 million to produce.[2]

Schedule

It had originally been announced in April 2007 that Annie-nominated animator and story artist Dean Wellins would be co-directing the film alongside Glen Keane.[6]

On October 9, 2008, it was reported that Keane and Wellins had stepped down as directors, and were replaced by the team of Byron Howard and Nathan Greno, director and storyboard director, respectively, of Disney's 2008 animated feature Bolt. Keane stayed on as an executive producer and animation supervisor, while Wellins moved on to developing other short and feature films.[7]

Title change

Official logo of Rapunzel, before it was changed to Tangled.

When first put into production, the film was promoted as having the title Rapunzel Unbraided, which was later changed to Rapunzel.[8]

Disney's previous animated feature The Princess and the Frog in 2009, while being well-received by various critics[9] and taking in nearly $270 million worldwide, was not as successful as Disney had hoped.[10] Disney expressed the belief that the film's emphasis on princesses may have deterred young boys from seeing the film.[10]

In order to market the film to both boys and girls, Disney changed the film's name from Rapunzel to Tangled (though some countries did not make the change), [citation needed] while also emphasizing Flynn Rider, the film's prominent male character.[10] Disney was criticized for altering the classic title as a marketing strategy. Floyd Norman, a former Disney and Pixar animator and story artist, said, "The idea of changing the title of a classic like Rapunzel to Tangled is beyond stupid. I'm convinced they'll gain nothing from this except the public seeing Disney as desperately trying to find an audience."[11] Justin Chang of Variety compared it to changing the title of The Little Mermaid to Beached.[12]

On November 24, 2010, the day of the film's release, directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard disputed reports that the title change was a marketing decision. They said they changed the title from Rapunzel to Tangled because Rapunzel is not the only main character in the film. They went on to say that you can't call Toy Story "Buzz Lightyear," and they really needed a title that represented what the film is, and that it’s a duo, and it stars Rapunzel and Flynn Rider.[13]

Animation

A concept rendering of Rapunzel, demonstrating the "luscious hair" Keane wanted.

The film was made using computer-generated imagery (CGI), although Tangled was modeled on the traditional look of oil paintings on canvas. The Rococo paintings of French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard, particularly The Swing, were used as references for the film's artistic style, a style described by Keane as "romantic and lush."[14] To create the impression of a painting, non-photorealistic rendering has been used.

Glen Keane wanted the film to look and feel like a traditional hand-drawn Disney film in 3D, and held a seminar called "The Best of Both Worlds", where he, with 50 Disney CGI artists and traditional artists, focused on the pros and cons of each style.[15] Due to limitations in computer technology, many basic principles of animation used in traditionally animated movies had been absent from earlier CGI films; but technological advancements have made it easier to blend the two, combining the strengths of each style. Keane stated repeatedly he was trying to make the computer "bend its knee to the artist" instead of having the computer dictate the artistic style and look of the film. By making the computer become as "pliable as the pencil," Keane's vision of a "three dimensional drawing" seemed within reach, with the artist controlling the technology. Many of the techniques and tools that were required to give the film the quality Keane demanded did not exist when the project was started, and Disney Animation Studios had to create them on their own.[14] Keane said, "There’s no photoreal hair. I want luscious hair, and we are inventing new ways of doing that. I want to bring the warmth and intuitive feel of hand-drawn to CGI."[16]

One of the main goals of the animators was to create movement that mimicked the soft fluidity of the hand-drawn art found in older Disney animated films. Keane credited Disney 3D animator Kyle Strawitz with helping to combine CGI with the traditional hand-drawn style. "He took the house from Snow White and built it and painted it so that it looked like a flat painting that suddenly started to move, and it had dimension and kept all of the soft, round curves of the brushstrokes of watercolor. Kyle helped us get that Fragonard look of that girl on the swing… We are using subsurface scattering and global illumination and all of the latest techniques to pull off convincing human characters and rich environments."[14]

Existing CGI technology continued to present difficulties: in particular, animating hair turned out to be a challenge. Senior software engineer Kelly Ward spent six years writing programs to make it move the way they wanted.[17] As late as January 2010, the directors were still not sure if the Rapunzel character's length of hair was going to work. These problems were finally solved in March:[18] An improved version of a hair simulation program named Dynamic Wires, originally developed for Bolt, was eventually used. To make hair float believably in water, and to surmount other similar challenges, discrete differential geometry was used to produce the desired effects, freeing the animators from executing these specific tasks directly, which would have taken days instead of minutes.[19]

3D

Rather than focusing on realism, the 3D team used an aesthetic approach. Robert Neuman, the film’s stereoscopic supervisor said that "We’re using depth more artistically than ever before, and we’re not as concerned with the literal transcription of depth between camera and projector as we are the interpretation of it." To do this, they used a new technique called multi-rigging, which is made up by multiple pairs of virtual cameras. Each pair is used individually on each separate element that adds depth to a scene, like background, foreground and characters, without adjusting for the relation with the other pairs. When sandwiched together later in production, the result was something that would be visually impossible in the real world, but which created an appealing look to the movie.[20]

Soundtrack

Untitled

Original music was composed for the movie by 8-time Academy Award winner Composer Alan Menken with lyrics written by Glenn Slater.[21] Menken said he attempted to blend medieval music with 1960s folk rock to create the new songs.[22]

No.TitlePerformer(s)Length
1."When Will My Life Begin"Mandy Moore2:32
2."When Will My Life Begin (Reprise 1)"Moore1:03
3."Mother Knows Best"Donna Murphy3:10
4."When Will My Life Begin (Reprise 2)"Moore2:06
5."I've Got a Dream"Brad Garrett, Jeffrey Tambor, Moore, Zachary Levi, Company3:11
6."Mother Knows Best (Reprise)"Murphy1:38
7."I See the Light"Moore, Levi3:44
8."Healing Incantation"Moore0:54
9."Flynn Wanted"Alan Menken2:51
10."Prologue"Murphy, Delaney Stein2:02
11."Horse with No Rider"Menken1:57
12."Escape Route"Menken1:57
13."Campfire"Menken3:21
14."Kingdom Dance"Menken2:20
15."Waiting For the Lights"Menken2:47
16."Return to Mother"Menken2:06
17."Realization and Escape"Menken5:50
18."The Tear Heals"Menken, Moore7:37
19."Kingdom Celebration"Menken1:50
20."Something That I Want"Grace Potter2:43

Several songs were written but eventually cut from the final film; "When Will My Life Begin?" replaced an earlier version called "What More Could I Ever Need?". Menken reported that that opening number went through five or six different versions.[23]

Elsewhere, Menken reported that there was originally a love song called "You Are My Forever" that Mother Gothel sang to Rapunzel in a motherly way but was reprised later in the film by Flynn in a romantic way. This idea was apparently replaced with the two songs "Mother Knows Best" and "I See the Light".[24]

The song "Something That I Want" performed by Grace Potter from Grace Potter and the Nocturnals is featured in the closing credits. This version features some of the lyrics that were re-written and sung by Potter herself. The Spanish version of the song, titled "Algo Quiero Querer", was recorded by Colombian pop-singer, Fanny Lú.[25]

The album has peaked at No. 44 on the Billboard 200, No. 7 on the Soundtrack chart, and No. 3 on the Top Kids Albums chart.[26][27][28]

Release

Critical response

Tangled received mainly positive responses from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 89% of critics have given Tangled a positive review based on 170 reviews, with an average score of 7.5/10.[29] Among Rotten Tomatoes Top Critics, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 93%, based on a sample of 29 reviews.[30] The site's consensus is: "While far from Disney's greatest film, Tangled is a visually stunning, thoroughly entertaining addition to the studio's classic animated canon."[29] Another review aggregator Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score from 0–100 out of reviews from mainstream film critics, calculated a score of 71 based on 33 reviews.[31] CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend revealed the average grade cinemagoers gave Tangled was A+ on an A+ to F scale.[32]

A. O. Scott of The New York Times positively reviewed the film as "the 50th animated feature from Disney, and its look and spirit convey a modified, updated but nonetheless sincere and unmistakable quality of old-fashioned Disneyness."[33] Time film critic Richard Corliss noted that the film "wades into the DreamWorks style of sitcom gags and anachronistic sass" while praising the film for achieving "the complex mix of romance, comedy, adventure and heart that defines the best Disney features."[34] Kenneth Turan from The Los Angeles Times awarded the film four stars out of five; he described the film as a "gorgeous computer-animated look that features rich landscapes and characters that look fuller and more lifelike than they have in the past."[35]

James Berardinelli commented on his review website ReelViews that the film is "entertaining and enjoyable, but not groundbreaking."[36] Berardinelli also stated Rapunzel is "not as memorable as Snow White, Ariel, or Belle" as well as stating "the songs are neither catchy nor memorable."[36] Todd McCarthy, film reviewer for The Hollywood Reporter opened his review with, "It would have been nice if Disney's self-touted 50th animated feature were one of its best, a film that could stand with the studio's classics, but the world will have to make do with Tangled, a passably entertaining hodgepodge of old and new animation techniques, mixed sensibilities and hedged commercial calculations."[37] Most reviews have praised the animation, notably the sky lantern sequence ("I See The Light") in the film, some comparing it to the ballroom scene in Beauty and the Beast.

Quentin Tarantino named Tangled as his fifth favorite film of 2010.[38]

Box-office performance

Tangled earned $200,821,936 in the USA and Canada and an estimated $389,900,000 in other countries for a worldwide total of $590,721,936.[3] Worldwide, it is the 14th highest-grossing animated feature ever released,[39] the eighth highest-grossing film of 2010 and the third largest animated title on that list behind Toy Story 3 ($1.063 billion) and Shrek Forever After ($752.6 million). It is also the third Disney film appearing in 2010's Top Ten.[40] Finally, it is the second highest-grossing film worldwide produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, trailing only The Lion King ($783.8 million).[41]

It premiered in Paris on November 17, exclusively screening at the Grand Rex theatre two weeks in advance of its French wide release.[42] With over 3,800 tickets sold on its opening day, it set a new record for films showing in a single theatre.[43] It had a worldwide opening weekend of $86,079,983.[44][45] Due to a gradual worldwide roll-out and many other blockbuster movies playing at the same time, it reached the summit of the worldwide box office only once, on its 11th weekend (Feb 4-6, 2011), with $24,884,871 from 49 territories.[46][47]

North America

In the United States and Canada, Tangled picked up $11.9 million on its opening Wednesday,[48] breaking the record for the largest pre-thanksgiving Wednesday opening of all time, a record previously held by Disney·Pixar's Toy Story 2.[49] In its first weekend of release, it earned $48.8 million, placing second for the period behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, which earned $49.1 million.[50] Tangled had the fifth highest opening weekend for a film that did not debut at #1.[51] Over the traditional Wednesday-Sunday Thanksgiving holiday period, it tallied $68.7 million, again finishing in second place.[50] Tangled also marked the second-largest 3-day and 5-day Thanksgiving opening after Toy Story 2.[50] During its second weekend (post-Thanksgiving weekend), which was one of the lowest-grossing of 2010, Tangled declined 56% although it jumped to first place at the box office with $21.6 million, ahead of the new release The Warrior's Way and surpassing Deathly Hallows Part 1's weekend gross by a wide margin.[52] On its third weekend, it fell only 34% with a $14.3 million gross, having the smallest decline among films playing nationwide, but dropping to third place behind The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ($24.0 million) and The Tourist ($16.5 million).[53] On its fiftieth day of release, with $176,697,860, it out-grossed The Karate Kid to become the 10th highest-grossing film of 2010 in these regions.[54] Additionally, on the weekend May 20–22, 2011, it became the 10th 2010 film to pass the $200-million-mark.[55] However, it was the fourth slowest film to pass this mark behind Back to the Future, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and Saving Private Ryan.[56] In the USA and Canada, (unadjusted for inflation) it is the third highest-grossing film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, behind The Lion King ($328.5 million) and Aladdin ($217.4 million).[57]

International market

Overseas, on its opening weekend it earned $17,373,685 in 8 territories and ranked second for the weekend behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 ($117.3 million).[58] After an eventual rollout in markets around the world and varying rankings among the Top Ten in subsequent weekends overseas, it finally reached first place at the overseas box office on the first weekend of 2011 (January 7–9) with $25.9 million.[58] It fell to second place with $14.9 million overseas on the Martin-Luther-King weekend, out-grossed by Tron: Legacy ($17.2 million).[58] On January 28–30, it regained first place with $17.1 million mainly due to a strong opening in the UK, Ireland and Malta.[58] On the following weekend (Feb. 4-6 2011), it continued to dominate on the summit of the overseas box office with $23.0 million, a feat the UK, Spain, Sweden and Norway mainly contributed to. It therefore marked the first film to top the overseas box office in 2011 three times, followed by Rio and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.[58] In cumulative overseas grosses, it marked the seventh largest 2010 picture, the third largest 2010 animated feature.[59]

Europe
  • Eastern Europe

Tangled had a strong opening weekend in Russia and the C.I.S, where it grossed $8.9 million, ranking number one for the weekend and performing Disney's best opening among animated features as well.[60] By May 8, 2011, it has made $23,380,205, marking the largest Disney animated feature of all time in that country.[61] In Bulgaria, it scored $142,644 during its opening (the third largest one for an animated title) and reached $910,832 in total, marking the largest animated feature of 2010, the second best of all time after Ice Age 3 ($1.9 million) and the sixth highest-grossing film ever.[62] In Romania, it started with $246,542 and had earnings summing up to $1,332,984. It is the second highest-grossing animated title of all time after Ice Age 3 ($2.3 million). On the all-time list of highest-grossing movies it ranks 7th.[63]

  • Northern Europe

It topped the U.K., Ireland and Malta box office on its first weekend with £5,106,612 ($8,099,434 from 445 theaters). It stayed on top during its second weekend, falling only 9% to £4,569,135 ($7,363,278) and has grossed $32,871,348 by July 10, 2011.[64] In Sweden, it earned $1,828,543 during its opening, marking the biggest 3-day weekend gross for an animated movie ($1,902,690 with weekday previews); it dominated for five weekends at the box office and has accumulated $8,136,288 by May 15, 2011, marking the second highest-grossing animated feature in the country just after Ratatouille.[65]

  • Southern Europe

In Spain, it had a huge debut; it earned €4.12 million ($5,705,845) breaking the largest-opening-weekend record among animated titles, in local currency, previously held by Finding Nemo and Toy Story 3.[66] In Greece, it opened with $1,006,184, marking the largest 3-day opening weekend for an animated feature and reached $2,787,668 by the end of its run, becoming the fifth highest-grossing animated film ever after Dawn of the Dinosaurs ($4,705,076), Ice Age: The Meltdown ($3,573,780), Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa ($3,332,259) and Ratatouille ($3,189,263).[67]

  • Western Europe

In Germany, its highest-grossing territory after the USA and Canada, it earned $6,662,642 on its opening weekend, including weekday previews. It therefore marked the biggest opening weekend in 2010 for an animated film.[68] It dominated the box office during the whole holiday period and it earned $44,204,134 in total.[69] This made Tangled the largest animated movie of 2010, out-grossing Despicable Me ($27,043,442), and among all 2010 releases it ranks second behind Deathly Hallows: Part 1.[70] In Austria, it debuted with $1,070,836 (including weekday previews), marking the largest opening of 2010 for an animated feature. It earned $6,286,813 in total, not only becoming 2010's largest animated film but even surpassing Deathly Hallows: Part 1 to rank #1 among all 2010 releases. Additionally, it currently places 5th on the all-time list of animated movies.[71]

South America

In Brazil it grossed $24,341,705 in total, marking the fifth highest-grossing animated featureof all time after Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Shrek 4, Rio and Toy Story 3.[72][73] In Argentina, it debuted on top of the box office with $1,621,613; it dominated for four weeks and has earned $8,228,969, marking the eighth-highest grossing film of all time in the country and the fourth largest animated feature ever.[74] In Bolivia, it made $177,210 during its opening and $744,876 in total, marking the fourth largest animated movie ever behind Toy Story 3, Ice Age 3 and Rio.[75] In Venezuela, it out-grossed Toy Story 3 by earning $6,863,748 to become the highest-grossing movie of 2010, the fourth highest-grossing animated feature of all time behind Ice Age 3 ($11,644,527), Up ($7,249,646) and Rio ($7,884,921) and the fifth highest-grossing film of all time.[76] In Colombia, it debuted with $1,219,266 and reached a total of $5,315,615, marking the fifth largest animated feature of all time after Toy Story 3, Ice Age 3, Rio and Shrek 4.[77]

Oceania

In Australia, it earned $6.1 million during its opening, marking the highest-grossing opening weekend for a non-sequel animated movie.[78]

Asia

In Malaysia, it opened with $808,579 and earned $3,000,230 in total. It therefore surpassed Toy Story 3 ($2,812,540) not only to become the highest-grossing animated feature of 2010 but the first to cross the $3 million mark and the second-largest of all time after Kung Fu Panda 2.[79] In Singapore, it made a mere $483,756 during its opening only to expand widely the next weekend. It finished with $3,031,106 being the fourth highest-grossing animated feature of all time after Kung Fu Panda 2, Kung Fu Panda ($4,307,978) and Toy Story 3 ($3,155,072).[80] In Lebanon, it earned $466,966 in total to top the 2010 animated-movie list and become the second highest-grossing animated feature of all time after Ice Age 3 ($607,651).[81] In Japan, Tangled was released amidst "tragic conditions" caused by earthquakes, tsunamis and explosions at nuclear sites, on March 12, 2011, in 370 screens - a limited number compared to other blockbuster movies. It had a poor $1,743,372 opening-weekend gross and a third-place rank at the box office.[82] However, it earned $31,081,461 in total marking the 8th largest animated film of all time.[83]

Merchandising

Like other recent Disney animated features, Tangled is supported in retail stores by a line of toys and other merchandise.[84] Many of the Rapunzel dolls emphasize her hair, while some also include sound clips from the film. Toys based on other characters, including Flynn Rider, Pascal and Maximus, have also been released. Rapunzel is yet to be included as an official Disney Princess. However, she already appears in numerous books and doll sets, but set to be an Offical Disney Princess on October 2nd 2011.

A video game based on the film, titled Tangled: The Video Game was released on November 23, 2010 for the two Nintendo consoles Nintendo DS and Wii by Disney Interactive Studios.[85]

Home media

Tangled was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment as a four-disc combo pack on March 29, 2011. The combo pack includes a 3D Blu-ray, standard Blu-ray, DVD, and digital copy. A two-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack and single DVD are also available. Bonus features for the Blu-ray include deleted scenes, two alternate opening sequences, two extended songs, and an inside look at how the film was made. The DVD includes only the two Original Storybook Openings and the 50th Animated Feature Countdown.

Sales of Tangled in the U.S and Canada exceeded $80 million in DVD and Blu-ray sales, the highest grossing DVD of the year to date; its home video sales exceeded the film's earnings in its first week in theaters.[86] The film sold a record 3,060,206 units (the equivalent of $45,872,488) in its first week in North America, the largest opening for a 2011 DVD. It dominated for two weeks on the DVD sales chart and sold 6,029,566 units ($92,467,945) as of June 5, 2011.[87] It has also sold 2,518,522 Blu-ray units ($59,220,275) by May 29, 2011.[88]

Future

In a recent interview, Nathan Greno revealed that he and Byron Howard, both of whom co-directed Tangled, are working on a new short set in the Tangled world.[89]

This is kind of new information that we haven’t really told the press yet, but the studio has asked us to do a Tangled short. Based on the success of the film, they want to see more of the characters - We have come up with a story for a short that we believe is great and really funny,” he added. "Again, it’s kind of a big action short. It’s all the stuff you loved from the movie kind of packed into this little five or six-minute short. It’s going to be a good time. Maximus, Pascal and everybody, they are all back."

The Tangled short will air in Spring 2012 on Disney Channel, and it will show Rapunzel marrying her true love Flynn Rider.[90]

Accolades

The film has been nominated for ten awards. Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated Tangled for two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song for "I See the Light", but lost to Toy Story 3 and Burlesque respectively. The film also received two nominations for the Broadcast Film Critics Association in the same categories, but lost to Toy Story 3 and 127 Hours, as well as nominations for two Annie Awards, for Best Animated Feature Film and for Writing in a Feature Production.

Tangled was also nominated for two Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards, Best Animated Film and Best Original Song for "I've Got a Dream", which it lost to Toy Story 3 and Burlesque. "I See the Light" has been nominated for Best Original Song at the 83rd Academy Awards, but lost to "We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3. It has also been nominated for 37th Saturn Award for Best Animated Film.

Tangled won best 3D scene of the year at the second annual International 3D Society Creative Arts Awards.[91]

Group Category Result
83rd Academy Awards[92] Best Original Song ("I See the Light") Nominated
38th Annie Awards[93] Best Animated Feature Film Nominated
Writing in a Feature Production (Dan Fogelman) Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2010[94] Best Animated Feature Film Nominated
Best Song ("I See the Light") Nominated
68th Golden Globe Awards[95] Best Animated Feature Film Nominated
Best Song ("I See the Light") Nominated
National Movie Awards Animation Won
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards[96] Best Animated Film Nominated
Best Original Song ("I’ve Got a Dream") Nominated
37th Saturn Awards Best Animated Film Nominated
2011 Teen Choice Awards[97] Choice Movie – Animation Pending
Choice Animated Movie Voice (Zachary Levi) Pending

See also

References

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