Disney is in uninspired mode for a version of the Grimm fairytale about the hairy heroine. By Peter Bradshaw

• Peter Bradshaw
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 27 January 2011
• 1. Tangled
  2. Production year: 2010
  3. Country: USA
  4. Cert (UK): PG
  5. Runtime: 100 mins
  6. Directors: Byron Howard, Nathan Greno
  7. Cast: Donna Murphy, Mandy Moore, Ron Perlman, Zachary Levi
  8. More on this film

  We are often and rightly said to be living in a new golden age of animation. Just occasionally, though, you get something a bit leaden. Rapunzel gets a very ordinary updating in this Disney picture, raiding duller moments from the Shrek movies for ideas, and sporting a laboured selection of Broadway-style showtunes – signalling that someone, somewhere clearly wants to turn this into a lucrative global franchise on stage, maybe with a cast in each country culled from a selection of hopefuls competing in some reality TV show. Despite the title, Rapunzel's hair stays as lustrous and untroubled as something from a shampoo ad; extreme girliness is of course the order of the day, but those great big doe eyes really are verging on the absurd. Even given that movies like Wall-E, Up and the Toy Stories have probably spoiled us all, this just looks like a cynical money-machine.

  cull: czerpać

  doe: łania

  laboured: ciężki, mozolny

  leaden: ciężki

  lucrative: intratny

  lustrous: błyszczący

  sport: żartować, nabijać się

  verge on: graniczyć z  

   

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