i prefer brunettes myself

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Saw Tangled tonight. Another fairy tale corrupted by the Disney corporation, although it was extremely unlikely any of the original "girl in a tower" folk tales would have been made into a children's movie anyway. Besides, they are mostly forgotten, except amongst mythographers. Although, that being said, I was really surprised at the amount of rather conservative antifeminist subtext in the presentation. Normally I can ignore it, but here it was constantly (at least for the first part of the film) beating you over the head with a frying pan. Which I did find rather amusing and ironic, particularly considering the moral imperative of many of the original girl in the tower folk tales. Technically quite good (we saw the less eye-straining 2D version), I was impressed by the fidelity of the landscapes. Great pains were made to preserve the cartoony nature of the characters, in order to maintain the traditional portrayal of Disney cartoon characters and to purposefully avoid approaching the Uncanny Valley in any manner whatsoever. Musically (and it was a musical) there really wasn't much to write home about. YMMV