Tangled is the latest effort from Disney and tells the classic story of Rapunzel. It all begins when a drop of sunlight falls to earth and grows into a magical golden flower that makes you younger when you sing a special song to it. The 4th problem I noticed about this is how the hell did they know what the song was? Did a piece of moon fall to earth and turn into an instruction manual?

The film starts with a rather extensive back story which glazes over some quite important events I thought, in particular Rapunzel being kidnapped and how she got her magic hair.

The film is also pretty much based around the idea that Rapunzel wants to go and see some lanterns which are released by the king and queen to pray for their daughter's safe return. Personally, I would have opted for a big search party, but that's probably just me being logical.

Rapunzel is supposed to be 18, but she looks like a 13 year old Bratz doll. The hair was the biggest problem for me. Firstly, how the hell do you get that much hair? Was the old woman feeding her testosterone supplements or something? The hair doesn't burden her in the way you would think about 100 meters of the stuff would either. It would be so heavy that it would drag her out of the window, and when she got it all tied up it would snap her weak little neck. I'm surprised she didn't face-butt herself in the tits when her hair got cut off with all the strain it must take to counterbalance.

The handsome man character must have a fractured skull from the amount of blows he takes to the head. I thought the way the old woman found a poster of the guy in his bag was a cheap way of her finding out who to look for, and it made little difference because she magically just seemed to find them in a pub anyway. I suppose that was the obvious place to look for an 18 year old though.

The flashback sequence where Rapunzel realises she's the kidnapped princess was cheap and reminded me of that scene in Spirited Away where the girl just comes out with the right answers off the top of her head. This was the only big problem with the film for me, and it's pretty much just down to lazy writing.

Films with songs in take liberties with exposition, and they tread a fine line between singing about what's going on, and singing about what is actually happening because it needs to be said but would be awkward to just come out and say it in dialogue. The first song of the film falls into the latter, and rivals Rebecca Black's Friday for stating the fucking obvious.

The animation in the film is very nice, and as always I enjoyed the quirks of the film, like Rapunzel trying to hide the guy in the wardrobe, and of course, Max the horse. The trouble for me is something that affects all animated films, so don't take this personally, Tangled. Because animation allows you to do things bigger and more over-the-top than live action, animated films seem to exploit this to the extreme. In every animated film there is at least one ridiculous chase scene and/or fight scene, and I'm beginning to get bored of them now. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you have to.

Having said that, Tangled is a very good family film, and if you enjoy animation you should definitely give it a watch.