Speaking of Disney

[yendi]

1. We saw Tangled last night, and loved it. It's not without flaws, but even those are a lot more complex than I'd expected. Overall, it was a blast, and has a great cast (and it's so nice to see Disney continuing to remember that great voices can come from Broadway; Donna Murphy is wonderful as the emotionally abusive villain of the piece).

2. The Chive -- the site best known for woman quitting her job via dry erase board hoax --- has put together a collection of Twisted Disney Princesses. with many of the sidekicks and others also coming out pretty evil.

Comments

[martinhesselius.livejournal.com]

Ah!
Almost went to see Tangled weekend before last --
Will have to make effort now.

[yendi]

It's absolutely worth seeing. Best Disney horse ever (and I say this as a fan of Mulan's Khan).

[kradical.livejournal.com]

YES! Maximus was totally awesome!

I especially liked the way he tried to be a bloodhound -- except he actually sucked at it because he never found anything that way.....

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

Bernadette Peters will always be my witch.

[yendi]

Ditto (I saw Into the Woods about a week into its run). But Murphy absolutely channeled Peters at times in some of her vocal mannerisms.

[wednesday]

it's so nice to see Disney continuing to remember that great voices can come from Broadway

It might be more "Disney not entirely managing to forget;" we were supposed to get Kristin Chenoweth and Dan Fogler in the lead roles. :/ I still can't wait to see it, and am hoping Gothel isn't too too triggery.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

My only real issue with Tangled was the manner in which Rapunzel discovered her secret origin, which was pretty much a hand-wave ("the plot needs her to figure it out now, so she'll figure it out!" without any kind of explanation). Otherwise, it was very clever and well done, and I especially liked Flynn's creative solution to the climax (what he did with the shard of glass, he says, trying to avoid spoilers).