Wait...Tangled...didn't even get nominated...for Best Animated Feature...when there aren't that many animated features?
Wow.
And Toy Story 3 got nominated for Best Picture.
Huh.
Maybe it's because Disney used to make movies like Beauty and the Beast that got nominated for Best Picture. Beauty and the Beast, with a title and story befitting the real feel of the real fairy tale. The Disney tradition.
I don't think Toy Story 3 is better than Tangled, Tangled had me do the rare thing for me of shedding tears in the end as Rapunzel tries desperately to save her love when it seems hopeless. In Toy Story 3, the toys assign their fate to death and look sadly into a fire for a very very long time and then get rescued and then we're supposed to just accept toys go on to new owners and live forever as their past owners die and what do they do, forget their owners, do they have favorite owners? What?! That's bad, and not as good as Tangled's sense-making, non-disturbing drama.
But Tangled is different from what Disney is known for, they twisted what they are known for.
Recently, Tangled home video press release said:
"
A Modern Twist on the Famous Hair-Raising Fable Rapunzel Unravels This Spring!"
That, coupled with this:
Anyway, anyway..I took my 5 year old twins to Tangled today and they were both literally enchanted by it. They forgot all about the treats I brought for them to snack on and I had to (sternly) nudge them to tempt them with a jelly baby. When we left they were full of questions. They knew other versions of the fairytale and told me that this one was 'just a story, not the real Rapunzel', but that they liked it better anyway.
Disney used to make them feel like the real versions of the fairy tales. YES, they changed them a little bit, but they still were
close enough to the originals to feel like they were
the real versions of the fairy tales. And the title was an indication of that.
MutantEnemy wrote:They knew other versions of the fairytale and told me that this one was 'just a story, not the real Rapunzel', but that they liked it better anyway.
This is the most important part.
That is perhaps your opinion, but any studio can make a film that peopel like better. People liked Alvin and the Chipmunks and its sequel better than a lot of other, much better movies. So what really matters is Disney staying Disney, making what feel like the real versions of fairy tales.
Victurtle wrote:Disney Duster wrote:Oh Disney...Oh Disney. When you used to make what felt like 'the real' versions of the classics.
Please justify yourself. What is a fake version of a classic? Version by definition means an adaptation, as of a book or play into a film, thus there cannot be a 'non-real' version.
I don't see what is so Shrekish about Tangled at all. The movie shares much so elements with the original it's one of the more faithful adaptions in their canon.
I already explained that Disney's versions were close
enough to the originals to feel like the real versions of the fairy tales. That can happen. A version of something can still feel like a "real" version. The fact that those little kids could tell a difference between this version of Rapunzel feeling not like the real one and past versions of Disney fairy tales being the real versions says it all.
Wonderlicious wrote:Well, I suppose it could at least encourage children to read the originals, as opposed to just watching a film version and lazily taking that as the definitive version. Helps stop child illiteracy, methinks.

I know, but there is also the opinion that Disney's versions are so good that they should be the definitive versions. This is how a lot of people feel, it's a testament to how good Disney's films are. I felt that way about all versions until The Princess and the Frog and now Tangled. But kids should pick up the books and read the real version anyway. I don't see how Tangled would make children want to read the original more than any other Disney film...?
DisneyAnimation88 wrote:Disney have changed every story they've adapted, as you know. What qualifies as a "real" version?
As I said already, any time you make a version or adaptation of something, it has to change a little. But
even though they changed the stories a little, in the past, Disney still
retained something that made them feel like the real versions. But that didn't happen with Tangled. Not for these kids. And not quite for me... Not for a lot of people, when Disney's past films felt like the real versions for everyone.