Tangled

Tangled is a 2010 American 3D computer-

animated musical adventure film[2]
produced by Walt Disney Animation
Studios and released by Walt Disney
Pictures. Loosely based on the German
fairy tale "Rapunzel" in the collection of
folk tales published by the Brothers
Grimm, it is the 50th Disney animated
feature film. Featuring the voices of Mandy
Moore, Zachary Levi and Donna Murphy,[7]
the film tells the story of a lost, young
princess with magical long blonde hair
who yearns to leave her secluded tower.
Against her mother's wishes, she accepts
the aid of an intruder to take her out into
the world which she has never seen.
 Tangled

Theatrical release poster[1]

Directed by Nathan Greno

Byron Howard

Produced by Roy Conli

Screenplay by Dan Fogelman

Based on Rapunzel
by the Brothers
Grimm
Starring Mandy Moore
Zachary Levi
Donna Murphy
Music by Alan Menken

Edited by Tim Mertens

Production Walt Disney

company
Pictures[2]
Walt Disney
Animation Studios[3]

Distributed by Walt Disney Studios

Motion Pictures[2]

Release date November 14, 2010

(El Capitan Theatre)
November 24, 2010
(United States)

Running time 100 minutes[4]

Country United States
Language English

Budget $260 million[5][6]

Box office $592.4 million[6]

Before the film's release, its title was

changed from Rapunzel to Tangled,
reportedly to market the film gender-
neutrally.[5] Tangled spent six years in
production at a cost that has been
estimated at $260 million, which, if
accurate, would make it the most
expensive animated film ever made and
one of the most expensive films of all
time. The film employed a unique artistic
style by blending together features of
computer-generated imagery (CGI) and
traditional animation while using non-
photorealistic rendering to create the
impression of a painting. Composer Alan
Menken, who had worked on prior Disney
animated features, returned to score
Tangled.

Tangled premiered at the El Capitan

Theatre on November 14, 2010, and went
into general release on November 24. The
film earned $592 million in worldwide box
office revenue,[6] $200 million of which
was earned in the United States and
Canada, and was praised by critics and
audiences for its animation, writing,
characters, and musical score. The film
was nominated for a number of awards,
including Best Original Song at the 83rd
Academy Awards. The film was released
on Blu-ray and DVD on March 29, 2011; a
short film, Tangled Ever After, was released
later in 2012 and a television series
premiered in 2017.

Plot
Long ago, a drop of liquid sunlight sprouts
a magical healing flower. For centuries,
Mother Gothel has used the flower to
retain her youth, and she is angered when
soldiers from a nearby kingdom pluck it to
heal their ailing and pregnant queen.
Shortly afterward, the Queen gives birth to
Princess Rapunzel, whose golden hair
contains the flower's healing properties.
Gothel tries to steal a lock of Rapunzel's
hair to use the magic once again, but
discovers that cutting the hair renders it
powerless. She instead abducts Rapunzel
and raises her as her own in a secret
tower. In order to keep the confined and
isolated Rapunzel content, Gothel teaches
her to fear the outside world and its
people. Each year, the King and Queen
release sky lanterns on Rapunzel's
birthday, hoping for their daughter to see
them and return. She has known that
those lanterns were meant for her, her
entire life. A couple times she tries to
convince Mother Gothel to let her out, but
Gothel does not let her.

On the eve of her eighteenth birthday,

Rapunzel asks to leave the tower and
discover the lanterns' source, but Gothel
refuses. Meanwhile in the kingdom, a thief
named Flynn Rider steals Rapunzel's
intended crown from the palace and
ditches his partners, the Stabbington
brothers, while fleeing. He takes refuge
with the crown in Rapunzel's tower, but
Rapunzel knocks him unconscious and
hides him in the closet. Gothel returns, and
Rapunzel tries to show Flynn to her to
demonstrate her readiness for the
"dangerous" outside world. However,
Gothel still dismisses her.

Rapunzel sends Gothel away on a three-

day journey to acquire paints. With Gothel
gone, Rapunzel hides the crown from
Flynn and leverages it to persuade him to
escort her to see the lanterns for her
birthday. Along the way, Flynn brings
Rapunzel to the Snuggly Duckling, a pub
filled with menacing thugs, who initially try
to capture the wanted Flynn, but Rapunzel
charms them instead. Meanwhile, Gothel
encounters Maximus, a palace horse
determined to capture Flynn. Recognizing
that kingdom guards may be closing in on
her hidden tower, she returns there to
check on Rapunzel, but she only discovers
Flynn's satchel with the stolen crown and
she goes after the pair.

Royal soldiers led by Maximus arrive at the

pub in search of Flynn. Rapunzel and Flynn
escape through a passage, but they find
themselves trapped in a flooding cave.
Resigned to their fate, Flynn reveals his
real name, Eugene Fitzherbert, and
Rapunzel reveals that her hair glows when
she sings. They use the light to escape the
cave and take refuge in the forest. That
night, Gothel, now in league with the
Stabbingtons, gives the crown to Rapunzel
and suggests using it to test Eugene's
loyalty.

In the morning, Maximus finds the pair and

tries to arrest Flynn, but Rapunzel dictates
a truce in honor of her birthday. The group
reach the kingdom and enjoy the birthday
festivities; this culminates in an evening
cruise as the King, Queen, and townsfolk
release the lanterns. There, Rapunzel gives
Eugene the crown for fulfilling her dream
of seeing the lanterns in person. They
confess their love and are about to kiss
when Eugene notices the Stabbingtons on
the shore. He leaves Rapunzel to give
them the crown as an apology, but they
assault him and tie him to a boat headed
for the palace. Eugene is detained while
the brothers convince Rapunzel that
Eugene has abandoned her. Gothel stages
a rescue by disabling the brothers and
returns with Rapunzel to the tower.

There, Rapunzel suddenly recognizes the

symbol of the kingdom, which she has
subconsciously incorporated into her
paintings over the years. Realizing that she
is the long-lost princess for whom the
people send the lanterns, she angrily
confronts Gothel. At the same time,
Maximus and the Duckling thugs help
Eugene escape captivity, and Maximus
rushes him back to Gothel's tower. Eugene
enters by climbing Rapunzel's hair, only to
find Rapunzel chained and gagged. Gothel
stabs Eugene and tries to flee with
Rapunzel. Rapunzel agrees to go willingly
if Gothel allows her to heal Eugene first.
Wanting her to be free, Eugene cuts off her
hair, which turns brown and loses its
magic, causing Gothel to age rapidly.
Enraged, Gothel accidentally falls out the
window to her death, becoming dust
before hitting the ground. Eugene
confesses his love once more and dies.
A heartbroken Rapunzel mourns for
Eugene, but one of her tears, still
containing the flower's magic, lands on his
cheek and restores his life. The two return
to the kingdom where the King and Queen
reunite with their daughter and pardon
Eugene. Finally, after a time, Rapunzel
marries Eugene.

Voice cast
Mandy Moore – Rapunzel[8][9]
Delaney Rose Stein – young
Rapunzel[10]
Zachary Levi – Flynn Rider[8][9]
Donna Murphy – Mother Gothel[11]
 Brad Garrett – Hook Hand Thug[10]
Ron Perlman – Stabbington Brother[10]
Jeffrey Tambor – Big Nose Thug[10]
Richard Kiel – Vlad[10]
M. C. Gainey – Captain of the Guard[10]
Paul F. Tompkins – Short Thug[10]

Non-speaking animal characters include

Rapunzel's pet chameleon Pascal and
Maximus, the horse of the head of the
palace guard. Other non-speaking roles
include Rapunzel's parents (the King and
Queen of Corona), the other Stabbington
brother, and Ulf the Mime Thug.
Production

Origins and conception …

The concept of an animated film based on

the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Rapunzel"
originated from Disney supervising
animator Glen Keane in 1996.[12] In 2001,
Keane pitched the idea to then-Disney CEO
Michael Eisner who approved it, but
requested the film to be computer-
animated. However, Keane was hesitant as
he felt computer animation was not quite
as fluid or organic as traditional animation
was.[13] In October 2003, the film was
announced as Rapunzel Unbraided as a
computer animated feature scheduled for
a 2007 release,[14][15] which Keane
described as "a Shrek-like version of the
film"[12] that revolved around an entirely
different concept. Keane said of the
original plot, "It was a fun, wonderful, witty
version and we had a couple of great
writers. But in my heart of hearts I believed
there was something much more sincere
and genuine to get out of the story, so we
set it aside and went back to the roots of
the original fairy tale."[16]

In November 2005, Unbraided was pushed

back to a summer 2009 release in order to
give Keane "more time to work on the
story."[17] According to Ed Catmull, at one
point, Eisner himself had proposed using
modern-day San Francisco as the initial
setting at the start of the film and then
somehow transporting the heroine into a
fairy tale world, but Keane could not make
that idea work.[18] The film was shut down
about a week before Catmull and John
Lasseter were placed in charge of the
studio in January 2006, and one of their
first decisions was to restart the project
and ask Keane to keep going with the
film.[18] 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.[19]
On October 9, 2008, it was reported that
Keane and Wellins had stepped down as
directors due to other commitments, 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.[20] After the film's release,
Keane revealed that he had "stepped back"
from the role of director because of a
heart attack in 2008.[21]
Casting …

On September 10, 2009, it was announced

that actress and singer-songwriter Mandy
Moore, who previously worked with Disney
on Disneytoon Studios' Brother Bear 2, had
been cast as the voice of Rapunzel, and
actor Zachary Levi would provide the voice
of Flynn Rider.[8][9][22] Mandy Moore
approached the project through
auditioning, when she heard that a film
about the story of Rapunzel was being
made.[23][24] Moore later expressed that
she had dreamed to be a Disney princess
since she was young and said that with
the role of Rapunzel, she had fulfilled her
"ultimate childhood dream".[25] She
described herself as a "girly fan" of Disney
animated films[25] like The Little Mermaid,
Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion
King, and that it was an honor for her to be
part of this "legacy"—the lineage of such
Disney icons.[26] Since the film was going
to be a musical, it was required that all
auditionees had to read several scenes
and perform a song of their choice, to
ensure that the voice actors could both act
and sing.[27][28] For this singing section,
Moore chose "Help Me" by Joni
Mitchell,[23] a song that she herself had
covered on her fourth studio album,
Coverage (2003).[29][30] Moore revealed
that she had to attend several audition
sessions[26][27] and described the
experiences as "pretty fun" but didn't put
much hope in getting the part because she
believed there would be much competition
for this role;[24] she just performed her
best without any anxiety.[23] When she
received a callback from Disney telling that
she got the part, Moore described herself
as being "over the moon": "I was working in
New York at the time. I was with some
friends and my husband—and I screamed
as soon as I found out the news."[23]

The film reportedly cost more than $260

million to produce.[5]
Writing and character development …

When asked about the character of

Rapunzel, Mandy Moore said that
Rapunzel was a relatable character and
called her a "Renaissance, bohemian"
woman[23] rather than a typical Disney
princess:[31] Moore said "[Rapunzel]
doesn't know she's a princess [until the
end of the film]. She's just really sort of
motivated to find out what else is out there
beyond this crazy tower she's lived in for
18 years," and that "she's very independent,
she can take care of herself, and she's
definitely come up with really entertaining
ways to keep herself busy."[31] Moore also
stated that she herself had little influence
on Rapunzel: "The character was
developed way before I had anything to do
with it."[23]

According to Greno, one of the most

difficult problems during the development
of the film's plot was how to get Rapunzel
out of the tower without immediately
ending the movie, in that she had thereby
escaped Mother Gothel and did not have
any other specific objectives to pursue.[32]
At a meeting one day, animator John Ripa
floated an idea which turned out to be the
solution they had been looking for: the
mysterious floating lanterns.[32]
Recording …

In Tangled, as with most animated films, all

voice actors had to record their dialogue
separately from one another to avoid
bleeding into each other's tracks.[33]
Mandy Moore later recalled that during
recording, she had never met Donna
Murphy and only met Zachary Levi once
when they recorded "I See the Light".[33]
Moore thought that this was "a good
exercise in employing your
imagination".[34] When recording action
scenes, the voice actors had to jog a little
in place in order to make their voices
sound realistic.[34] For the songs, Moore
and Levi recorded on a soundstage with a
65-piece orchestra under the supervision
of composer Alan Menken. They sang live
with the orchestra for several times in
order to help everyone "get a vibe" and a
feel for the music and the singing, then
were asked to go in isolation booths to
record the actual tracks.[35][36] In order to
aid animators in animating the characters,
the filmmakers did interviews with the
voice actors and filmed their facial
expressions throughout the recording
sessions.[34] Disney animated films are
usually animated to synchronize with
recorded dialogue rather than asking the
vocal talent to synchronize their delivery to
animation after it is rendered. Thus, Moore
felt that the recording process was
challenging because at that time she had
no animation to look at except for a few
sketches.[23]

Due to scheduling conflicts with other

projects (Moore had to travel to different
places such as London or New York, and
Levi could only record on weekends for
five hours once every six weeks), they did
not necessarily record dialogue in the
same order as in the final film. "[When I
came in], maybe that sequence or scene
had been recorded by Mandy (Moore)
already, maybe it hadn't. We'd end up doing
the same scene five times, depending,"
Levi said.[28] After watching the finished
film, Moore was disappointed because she
felt that her voice sounded "shrill", while
Levi thought that his performance
sounded "incredibly nasally".[34]

Animation …

The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

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."[37] To create the
impression of a painting, non-
photorealistic rendering was used.[38]
A concept rendering of Rapunzel by Lisa Keene,
demonstrating the "luscious golden hair" Keane
wanted.

Glen Keane originally wanted the film to be

animated using a traditional 2D animation
process. However, Disney executives David
Stainton and Dick Cook announced that
they would only approve the film for
production if it were created using the 3D
computer graphics.[39] In response to that
demand, Glen Keane 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.[40] After the meeting, it was
decided that the film would be made in 3D
CG animation, but in a way as to become
an extension of the traditional 2D Disney
"aesthetic", a term which referred to the
naturalistic animation that conforms to the
fundamental principles of animation as
documented by Frank Thomas and Ollie
Johnston in the book The Illusion of Life:
Disney Animation.[39]
Due to limitations in computer technology,
especially regarding attempts to capture
the complexity of a human form, many
basic principles of animation used in
traditionally animated movies had been
absent from earlier CGI films; but
technological advancements made it
easier to blend the two, combining the
strengths of each style.[38] 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.[14] 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 Walt
Disney Animation Studios had to create
them on their own.[37] 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."[41]

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.[38] "He
took the house from Snow White and built
it and painted it so 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."[37]
Rather than focusing on realism, the 3D
team used an aesthetic approach.[38]
Robert Newman, 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 of 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
film.[42]

As a counterpart to the appealing and cute

design of Rapunzel,[43] the directors
wanted to make Flynn Rider "the most
handsome, most attractive male lead
Disney has ever had."[44] They held a large
"Hot Man Meeting" where they gathered
about 30 women from the studio and
asked them what they considered
attractive in a man.[45] They brought in
hundreds of images of their favourite male
actors and celebrities, which were torn and
pasted back again.[45][46] After much
deliberation, his look was eventually
narrowed down to one concept
drawing.[44][45]

Technology development …

Existing 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.[47] 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:[48] 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.[49]

Soundtrack
 Tangled
Soundtrack album by Various Artists

Released November 16, 2010

Recorded 2010

Genre Folk rock, medieval,

soundtrack

Length 55:39

Label Walt Disney

Producer Chris Montan, Alan

Menken, Scott Cutler,
Anne Preven, Frank
Wolf, Grace Potter,
Mike Daly, Kevin
Kliesch[50]
 Walt Disney Animation Studios chronology

The Princess Tangled Winnie the

and the Frog (2010) Pooh
(2009) (2011)

Tangled chronology

Tangled Tangled: The

(2010) Series
(2018)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating

Filmtracks [51]
The original music for the film was
composed by Alan Menken with lyrics
written by Glenn Slater.[52]

Menken said he attempted to blend

medieval music with 1960s folk rock to
create the new songs.[53]

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.[54]

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 Rider in a
romantic way. This idea was apparently
replaced with the two songs "Mother
Knows Best" and "I See the Light".[55]

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 Latin American
Spanish version of the song, titled "Algo
quiero querer", was recorded by Colombian
pop-singer, Fanny Lú.[56]
The soundtrack peaked at number 44 on
the Billboard 200, number 7 on the
Soundtrack chart, and number 3 on the Kid
Albums chart.[57][58][59]

Track listing …

All tracks are written by Alan Menken and

Glenn Slater except track 20 which is
written and composed by Grace Potter. All
original scores composed by Menken[50].
No. Title Performers Length
1. "When Will My Mandy 2:32
Life Begin?" Moore
2. "When Will My Moore 1:03
Life Begin?
(Reprise 1)[1]"
3. "Mother Knows Donna 3:10
Best[2]" Murphy
4. "When Will My Moore 2:06
Life Begin?
(Reprise 2)"
5. "I've Got a Brad Garrett, 3:11
Dream" Jeffrey
Tambor,
Moore,
 Zachary Levi,
Company
6. "Mother Knows Murphy 1:38
Best (Reprise)"
7. "I See the Light" Moore, Levi 3:44
8. "Healing Moore 0:54
Incantation"
9. "Flynn Wanted" Alan Menken 2:51
(Score)
10. "Prologue" Menken, 2:02
(Score & Song) Murphy,
Delaney
Stein
11. "Horse with No Menken 1:57
Rider" (Score)
12. "Escape Route" Menken 1:57
(Score)
13. "Campfire" Menken 3:21
(Score)
14. "Kingdom Menken 2:20
Dance" (Score)
15. "Waiting For the Menken 2:47
Lights" (Score)
16. "Return to Menken 2:06
Mother" (Score)
17. "Realization and Menken 5:50
Escape" (Score)
18. "The Tear Heals" Menken, 7:37
(Score & Song) Moore
19. "Kingdom Menken 1:50
 Celebration"
(Score)
20. "Something Grace Potter 2:43
That I Want"

UK bonus track[60]
No. Title Performers Length
21. "I See The Shannon 3:38
Light" Saunders

Denotes
1^ Not featured in film.[61]
2^This is an extended version of the
song.[62]

Chart performance …
 Peak
Chart (2010)
position

US Billboard 200[57] 44

US Billboard Soundtracks[58] 7

US Billboard Kids Albums[59] 3

Release
Tangled was released by Walt Disney
Studios Home Entertainment as a four-
disc combo pack on March 29, 2011. The
combo pack includes a Blu-ray 3D,
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.[63]

Sales of Tangled in the US and Canada

exceeded $95 million in DVD and Blu-ray
sales, the highest-grossing DVD of the year
2011; its home video sales exceeded the
film's earnings in its first week in
theaters.[64] The film sold a record
2,970,052 units (the equivalent of
$44,521,079) 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 6,657,331 units
($102,154,692) as of July 18, 2012.[65] It
has also sold 2,518,522 Blu-ray units
($59,220,275) by May 29, 2011.[66] As of
January 20, 2016, the film has earned a
total of $215 million in home video sales in
the United States and Canada ($155
million from DVD sales and $60 million
from Blu-ray sales).[65] Tangled was
released on 4K Blu-Ray on November 5,
2019.[67]

Reception

Box office …

Tangled premiered in Paris on November

17, exclusively screening at the Grand Rex
theater two weeks in advance of its French
wide release.[68] With over 3,800 tickets
sold on its opening day, it set a new record
for films showing in a single theater.[69] It
had a worldwide opening weekend of
$86.1 million,[70][71] and reached the
summit of the worldwide box office once,
on its eleventh weekend (Feb 4–6, 2011),
with $24.9 million.[72][73] Tangled earned
$200,821,936 in North America, and
$391,639,796 in other countries, for a
worldwide total of $592,461,732.[6] It was
the third Disney film appearing in the Top
10 films of 2010.[74] As of 2017, it was the
sixth-highest-grossing film worldwide
produced by Walt Disney Animation
Studios, behind Frozen, Zootopia, The Lion
King, Big Hero 6, and Moana.[75]

Tangled earned $11.9 million on its

opening Wednesday,[76] breaking the
record for the largest pre-Thanksgiving
Wednesday opening, a record previously
held by Disney·Pixar's Toy Story 2.[77] In its
first weekend of release, it earned $48.8
million (the highest opening for Walt
Disney Animation Studios, surpassing The
Lion King ($40.9 million), and later
surpassed by both Wreck-It Ralph ($49
million) and Frozen ($67.4 million)),
placing second for the period behind Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1,
which earned $49.1 million.[78] Tangled had
the sixth-highest opening weekend for a
film that did not debut at #1.[79] Over the
traditional Wednesday–Sunday
Thanksgiving holiday period, it tallied
$68.7 million, again finishing in second
place.[78] Tangled also marked the second-
largest 3-day and 5-day Thanksgiving
opening after Toy Story 2.[78] During its
second weekend (post-Thanksgiving),
Tangled declined 56% to $21.6 million,
although it jumped to first place at the box
office.[80] With a final gross of $200.8
million, it is the tenth-highest-grossing film
of 2010,[81] and the tenth 2010 film to pass
the $200 million mark;[82] it was the fourth-
slowest film to pass this mark.[83]
Unadjusted for inflation, it is the ninth-
highest-grossing film produced by Walt
Disney Animation Studios, behind The Lion
King ($422.8 million), Frozen ($400.7
million), Zootopia ($341.3 million), Moana
($248.7 million), Big Hero 6 ($221.3
million), Beauty and the Beast ($219
million), Aladdin ($217.4 million), and
Ralph Breaks the Internet ($201.1
million).[84]

On its opening weekend, it earned $17.4

million in eight territories and ranked
second for the weekend behind Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
($117.3 million).[85] It reached first place at
the weekend box office outside North
America three times in 2011.[86][87][88] It
marked the seventh-highest-grossing 2010
film and the third-highest-grossing 2010
animated film.[89] In Russia and the CIS, it
set an opening-weekend record among
non-sequel animated films (first surpassed
by Rio) and among Walt Disney Animation
Studios films (surpassed by Frozen).[90] Its
highest-grossing markets outside North
America was Germany ($44.2 million),
where it is the highest-grossing 2010
animated film,[91] followed by France and
the Maghreb region ($39.4 million) and the
UK, Ireland and Malta ($32.9 million).[92]
Critical reception …

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an

approval rating of 89% based on 226
reviews and an average score of 7.50/10.
The website's critical consensus is: "While
far from Disney's greatest film, Tangled is a
visually stunning, thoroughly entertaining
addition to the studio's classic animated
canon."[93] Another review aggregator,
Metacritic, which assigns a weighted
average score based on reviews from
mainstream film critics, calculated a score
of 71/100 based on 34 reviews, indicating
"generally favorable reviews".[94] According
to CinemaScore polls conducted during
the opening weekend, the average grade
cinemagoers gave Tangled was an "A+" on
an A+ to F scale.[95]

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."[96]
Time film critic Richard Corliss wrote that
Tangled "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."[97] Corliss included
Tangled at 19 in a list of top 25 All-time
Best Animated films.[98] 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."[99] Sandie
Angulo Chen of Common Sense Media
gave the film five out of five stars, writing,
"Fantastic princess adventure is fun, with
great messages."[100] Gael Cooper of NBC
News expressed that Tangled may be the
best Disney film of all time.[101]
James Berardinelli commented on his
review website ReelViews that the film is
"entertaining and enjoyable, but not
groundbreaking." He also stated Rapunzel
is "not as memorable as Snow White, Ariel,
or Belle" as well as stating "the songs are
neither catchy nor memorable."[102] 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."[103]

Music …

The soundtrack (particularly Menken's

musical score) in general was technically
praised, however the songs mostly
received some mixed reactions for being
quite derivative to most of Menken's
previous works (particularly the 1990s
renaissance ones). Bill Graham from
Collider praised them for their variations to
the tempo and tone, memorable lyrics, and
"blending old with new," However, he also
stated that "the film’s constant mixture of
tones can feel a bit off-putting for
some."[104] Roth Cornet from ScreenRant
was positive towards them, saying that
"Alan Menken’s music is as catchy,
uplifting and effecting as one would
expect."[105] Scott of The New York Times
positively reviewed the music, saying that
it "takes you back to a charmed world of
swoony longing and sprightly mischief,"
with a slick and efficient atmosphere and
grace notes of self-conscious
classicism.[96] Corliss from Time was also
positive to the songs, noting that though
"don't sound on first hearing like top-
drawer Menken," the songs still "smoothly
fill their functions." He described the
opener, "When Will My Life Begin?," as the
"heroine's 'I wanna' song," a Disney
tradition that stretches back to Snow
White's "Some Day My Prince Will Come." "I
See the Light" was described as "a
generically tuneful love ballad, which is
sure to be nominated for a Best Song
Oscar."[97]

James Berardinelli, on the other hand,

negatively commented the songs as
"neither catchy nor memorable."[102] Tim
Robey from The Daily Telegraph gave a
negative review, saying that they were only
"OK—there’s nothing you want to whistle
on the way home."[106] Peter Bradshaw
from The Guardian, who gave the movie
two out of five stars, described the songs
as "sporting a laboured selection of
Broadway-style show tunes," and hence are
actually added for profit.[107]

Title change controversy …

Unofficial 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.[108] Disney's previous animated
feature The Princess and the Frog in 2009,
while being well-received by various
critics[109] and taking in nearly $270 million
worldwide was not as successful as
Disney had hoped. Catmull would later
admit in writing that Disney Animation's
faith that The Princess and the Frog's
excellent quality would bring in all
audiences notwithstanding the word
"princess" in the title was their version of
"a stupid pill."[110] In order to market the
film to both sexes and additional age
groups, Disney changed the film's name
from Rapunzel to Tangled while also
emphasizing Flynn Rider, the film's
prominent male character, showing that
his story is just as important as
Rapunzel's.[111] Disney was criticized for
altering the 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."[112]

Justin Chang of Variety compared it to

changing the title of The Little Mermaid to
Beached.[113] Writing for the San Francisco
Chronicle's blog, Margot Magowan
accused Disney of sexism, writing:

Can you imagine if Disney…

switched a movie title so it
wouldn't risk highlighting a
male star? It's awful that this
kind of radical gender
discrimination exists for our
smallest people—little kids who
come into this world with huge
imaginations and aspirations,
big dreams that get squashed by
a bunch of billionaire guys who
 run massive entertainment
franchises.[114]

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 cannot 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.[115]
In March 2014, executive producer John
Lasseter explained that Disney had
changed the name to improve the film's
appeal to the four quadrants: "There was
an audience perception that these movies
were just for little girls[,] but when boys,
men, whatever actually see these movies[,]
they like them. So on Rapunzel … we
changed the name and we called it
Tangled. We did marketing that made the
people who would not normally show up
say, 'Hey, this looks pretty good.'"[116]

Accolades …
The film has been nominated for a number
of 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.[117] The film also
received two nominations for the
Broadcast Film Critics Association in the
same categories, though lost to Toy Story 3
and 127 Hours,[118] as well as nominations
for two Annie Awards, for Best Animated
Feature Film and for Writing in a Feature
Production.[119]
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.[120] "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.[121] It
has also been nominated for 37th Saturn
Award for Best Animated Film.[122]

Tangled won best 3D scene of the year at

the second annual International 3D Society
Creative Arts Awards.[123]
Tangled was also nominated for favorite
film in the British Academy Children
Awards for Favorite Film, competing
against films like Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows – Parts 1 & 2,
Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Cars 2,
and Kung Fu Panda 2.[124][125]
 Group Category Result

83rd Academy
Best Original Song ("I See the Light")
Awards[121]

38th Annie Best Animated Feature Film

Awards[119] Writing in a Feature Production (Dan Fogelman)

British Academy
Children's Awards Favourite Film
(BAFTA)[124][125]

Broadcast Film Critics Best Animated Feature Film Nominated

Association Awards
2010[118] Best Song ("I See the Light")

68th Golden Globe Best Animated Feature Film

Awards[117] Best Song ("I See the Light")

Golden Reel
Best Sound Editing: Music in a Musical Feature Film
Awards[126]

54th Grammy Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Awards[127] Best Song Written For Visual Media ("I See the Light")

Las Vegas Film Critics

Best Song ("I See the Light")
Society[128] Won

National Movie
Animation
Awards 2011[129]

Phoenix Film Critics Best Animated Film Nominated

Society Awards[120] Best Original Song ("I've Got a Dream")

37th Saturn
Best Animated Film
Awards[122]

2011 Teen Choice

Choice Animated Movie Voice (Zachary Levi)
Awards[130]

9th Visual Effects Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion

Society Awards[131] Picture (Clay Kaytis, John Kahrs, Glen Keane, Roy Conli)

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature

Motion Picture (Tony Smeed, Amy Smeed, Becky Bresee,
 Kira Lehtomaki for "Rapunzel")

Video game
A video game based on the film was
released on November 23, 2010, for
Nintendo DS, Wii, and PC platforms by
Disney Interactive Studios.[132]

A world based on the film, Kingdom of

Corona, appears in Kingdom Hearts III,
released on January 29, 2019 (US) for
PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game
takes place during the events of the movie.

Short film
Tangled Ever After is a short sequel
released in 2012. The plot revolves around
the wedding of Rapunzel and Eugene.
Pascal and Maximus lose the wedding
rings and chase after them, causing
massive collateral damage along the way.

Musical
An abridged stage adaptation entitled
Tangled: The Musical premiered on board
the Disney Magic of the Disney Cruise
Line[133] in November 2015,[134] featuring
three new songs written by Alan Menken
and Glenn Slater.[135]
Possible feature length sequel
and television series
In December 2014, Tangled's producer, Roy
Conli, revealed that the production team
had been "heavily pushed" for a feature-
length sequel to the film, but when the
writers and directors got together to
develop one, they realized, "she cut her
hair. It's over!"[136] Conli explained that at
Disney Animation under Lasseter, it is
always the filmmakers who decide
whether they are ready to make a sequel
(not marketing or merchandising).[136] In
January 2015, Conli again provided a
similar explanation when pressed on this
point, and also mentioned that directors
Greno and Howard ultimately "weren't
really interested" in continuing the
story.[137] Regardless, Tangled: Before Ever
After, a television movie set between the
feature film and the short film Tangled Ever
After, aired on March 10, 2017, serving as
an introduction to a continuing television
series, Tangled: The Series, later renamed
Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, that started
airing on Disney Channel on March 24,
2017.[138]

In May 2020, Hannah Shaw-Williams of

ScreenRant asked whether the success of
the movie would lead to a sequel (apart
from the short film Tangled Ever After),
stating there is no word of it being in
active development, noted that Disney is
"developing a live-action movie about
Rapunzel," and stated that it would take
several years for a possible movie to reach
theaters.[139]

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