I know, me too! I just love it! And I also like “Healing Incantation”. Seeing the movie later in theaters tonight. I english of course. I hate the swedish dubbed movies. UGH! But I’m looking forward to hear the swedish version of the soundtrack.
I really need to listen to the soundtrack again, I loved it even though it wasn’t Alan Menken’s best soundtrack by far, and was I the only one that felt elements of his other Disney musicals too much in this one, such as elements of music from The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Little Mermaid. “I See the Light” is a brilliant song though.
I acutally had a dream a week ago where my school theatre group performed “I’ve Got A Dream” Funny thing was, there were a lot of girl vikings.
I watched this again on Sunday, before it abandons the theater, a really big EFFORT from Disney, congratulations to WDAS for this gorgeous film!!!
I’ll admit, “I’ve Got a Dream” was my favorite - I always like the “production number,” and it was funny to see all the Thugs’ dreams.
The problem with the Oscars is this: If there are not at least 16 eligible animated features released in a year, there are only 3 nominees for Best Animated Feature. If there are 16 or more, we get 5 nominees (like last year). I’d like to see them change this in some way so they could go to 5 nominees if there are enough films with enough votes/support to be nominated, even if there aren’t 16 eligible films. (IMO, PatF wouldn’t have been nominated last year if there hadn’t been 5 nominees; I think the 3 would have been Up, Coraline, and Fantastic Mr Fox.)
Any non-Oscar awards I’ve seen this year that have had 5 nominees for Animated Feature have had TS3, Dragon, Illusionist, Tangled, and Despicable Me (which I also really enjoyed), so I think those would certainly have been the group if the Oscars had allowed 5 this year. TS3 and Dragon have been the front-runners all along, and I figured Illusionist would get the 3rd Oscar slot; the Animation branch nominates the animated features, and they’ve shown many times that they like recognizing foreign/art-house/non-traditional animated films when they can.
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Seems we got more QUALITY films rather than quantity it seems eh? There were quite a few movies deserving of a nomination, not just Tangled, but never got one anyway. -sighs-
Well, I saw it (today in fact). It may not be favourite Disney but overall an enjoyable film. I did have one plot hole or two but I more or less managed to fill it in my head on the (wet) walk back so eh.
I think the antagonist made this film though and made it stand out a bit more, it’s been a while since Disney had one emotionally abusive. The last (only?) one may have been Frollo, but I’m not so sure.
Oddly (and I might be alone here)… did anyone at points get a dreamworks feel?
I mean…
It kind of felt like a film if Dreamworks and Disney put their differances aside forever and ever and produced it together in a fit of love and dancing and music.
…
(This is an odd and mildly rediculous feeling I’ll admit but eh.)
Good movie overall, and while it’s not my favourite of 2011 it still means all (okay…three) of the movies I’ve seen since 2011 kicked in have been enjoyable so far- Yay!
^No, I didn’t get a Dreamworks feel, and let me explain why.
This was, in my opinion, Disney having fun. When Disney people have fun, they are the funniest, silliest, most self-aware people on the planet. Just look at House of Mouse or Enchanted if you don’t believe me. They were taking their own tropes and having a roll with them, focusing less on trying to prove anything and just sitting back and writing jokes they would find funny (Like Pixar does) I don’t think they should be pegged as trying to be like Dreamworks when they do this. 'Sides, Dreamworks hates the “traditional Disney musical” thing. The Shrek series is there to mock it. 
I don’t think they’re literally trying to be like dreamworks- just some of the humour came out that way, unintentionally probably due to yes, having their own fun- or due to simply wanting to follow a good market possibility. And it worked in their favour overall anyway.
I’m not denying it was a fun movie, though personally I liked enchanted in some way too, even though it wasn’t perfect. Though I still consider enchanted to have a touch of dreamworks humour as well to it in some form- it’s just more their style than disney generally has done in the past or what they’re GENERALLY associated with. It’s kind of like typical dreamworks humour with no pop culture references. Not that that’s a bad thing. The kind of humour was generally much more like dreamworks, Disney’s own fun or not, and whether dreamworks mocks musicals or not itself- it’s just more ‘sporting’ since it is of course mocking themselves. (For instance the GENIE from Aladdin… well he’s like a Dreamwork’s character even himself looking back at their style and adding their pop culture as well- even though he came before dreamworks was really formed). Doesn’t have to be a bad thing though of course. But still this humour, including their advertising does send a more dreamworksy vibe than a disney one at the end of the day. Just is for me. But disney it seems is changing so maybe eventually it won’t be ‘Humour’s a bit like dreamworks in some ways!’ in my mind.
I don’t know about house of mouse though- couldn’t get into it myself very much. I think because the main characters voices were something I couldn’t stand hearing for very long at all.
When mandy moore and zac levi sang “I see the light” at the Oscars, I started singing along. It was my favorite song out of every song that was nominated.
ha ha ellie-jessie-eve! Thanks for posting that! THat really made my day.
Man, I wish I had your dream!
If I had it my way, TS3 wouldn’t be in the Animated Feature category, and would compete solely in the Motion Picture category. It felt to me like it was on a whole new playing field (like most of Pixar films are) and is incredibly matured- maybe too matured for my taste, since parts of it felt like Grave of the Fireflies in the sense that it fills me with dread and fatalistic despair.
I would then shelve Legend of the Guardians, which has been largely ignored by most of the animation community, firmly into the vacant spot. Or, if I was forced to keep TS3 for any reason, I would take The Illusionist out, since I haven’t seen it and can’t deliver any opinions on it. Other than the fact that I’ve heard it is equally depressing, and there was a huge controversy between the producers and the family upon which the script was inspired by.
Sort of… Dreamworks isn’t all sarcastic and cynical jokes… one only has to watch Kung Fu Panda or How to Train Your Dragon and see the kind of gentle jokes and meta-humours they’re capable of when they’re not lazy half the time. While films like Shrek, Bee Movie and Shark Tale relied too heavily on pop-culture references, some like the ones I’ve just mentioned have timeless and universal humour. And I feel Tangled had that kind of self-referential and ‘breaking-the-fourth-wall’ spirit without being too smart-*** about it.
Anyway, I’m immensely disappointed somewhat that Randy got a token Best Song when this was clearly not his best effort. Well, in my opinion, at least. I know some people like that song and I don’t want to rain on their parade.
But I felt that ‘I See The Light’ had a lot more heart and soul poured into it. And it had a greater significance in the film’s context, since it was an important turning point in the plot, while ‘We Belong Together’ felt like a cheerful tune tacked at the end to lift the audience’s spirits when they leave the theatre.
BTW, that was a brilliant spoof, EJE! Didja make that? 
This is awesome.
Haha I’m glad you guys like it! And no, I didn’t make it. Credit goes to a member of the Disney Picture section of fanpop.
I think Disney did a good job of giving me TWO movies to see in theaters in 2010…Toy Story 3 and Tangled. In previous years it was one or zero.
2007: Ratatouille
2008: Didn’t see any of their stuff in theaters…saw Bolt on DVD in March 2009. Took me until then to apprectiate the DVD as a platform. Before that I preferred the VHS.
2009: any movie that came out in 2009 is bad. I’ve seen a few, including Up. Yuck. Terrible, ,TERRIBLE year in movies.
Tangled was pure delight. Let’s hope that The King of Elves proves to be good too, when and if it is released.
Love how Tangled begins with the line, “This is the story of how I died.”
Oh yeah, I sing the healing cantation pretty much every day.
Wow. You’re the only person I know who tought Up was terrible.
Disney usually releases 2 movies a year.
2007: Meet the Robinsons & Ratatouille
2008: Bolt & WALL-E
2009: Princess and the Frog & Up
Even if you didn’t make it, I love it. Would you be offended if I made that my facebook image? 
Not at all! Go right ahead! 
Cool!
And lover-of-fiction, I have yet to understand how anyone can not love Up.
Well I personally don’t despise absoultely everything about it but I’m not a big fan of Up either myself. Of course love_of _fiction may have different reasons than I do:
Up had some great things like Carl/Ellie which were marvelousy touching to me and I liked the idea of promises to the living>promises to the dead (because it will always be true) even if that lesson wasn’t perfectly shown. Also Carl was an interesting and great protaganist to have despite some terrible joke abour sugar. But Russell’s problems seemed tacked on and I never really felt for him at all. He’s okay, but kind of flat as a character to me with some depth they tried to tack on but failed to convince me of completely.
Kevin the bird was also utterly annoying and completely unfunny to me. Not many of the jokes surrounding the dogs were funny either (and I have a dog and love dogs in general so I should have found it funny by rights. But I think I liked the ‘squirrel’ joke and the ‘I have just met you and I love you’ bit and that was it for the dogs. I think there might have been one more, but overall it got old very fast for me. But the whole talking dog thing in general was only cute for a short time and quickly became grating for me. Plus chipmunk!dog. Not funny. At all. Just awkward). Plus the dogs flying in planes thing is perhaps one of the worst scenes Pixar has ever put into a movie for me personally- it completely threw me out of the movie- my suspension of disbelief had already been wearing thin for a variety of reasons by that stage, but that pushed me over completely.
Then there’s the issues with Muntz was not that great of an antagonist overall to me, plus it was utterly predictable that he would be ‘bad’. And then there’s the whole dog breed controversy which I won’t get into here.
I don’t judge people if they really like this movie- and after all there are many great parts and people I like both here and elsewhere liked it- but a part of me is still confused as to why it’s so popular myself. 