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Get ready to dig out your Tangled DVD, because that bad boy is going to be in heavy rotation again.
Disney has announced that Rapunzel is the latest princess officially joining the Disney Princess court. And what’s more royal than Kensington Palace where the UK’s own real-life Princess Kate (and several other princesses throughout the centuries) lives? Continue reading »
Two days ago, my 5-year-old stood in the living room with one hand on her cocked hip and said, “Those princesses, that’s not really what I’m going for right now. Princess are, like, old-fashioned. They’re really not my style.”
Apparently, Disney really does have marketing reps spying on every house in America, because they’ve just announced that they’re changing the name of their upcoming animated version of Rapunzel to “Tangled” so that people won’t think it’s a fairy-tale flick. Which it totally is.
While I applaud any move away from the princess obsession, Salon’s Broadsheet points out that this isn’t exactly good news for girls.
I’m feeling pretty psychic right about now. Just the other day as I went through all my daughter’s classic fairy tale books, I thought to myself “why o why hasn’t Disney done Rapunzel’? Is it because it’s one of the darker and slightly more depressing Brothers Grimm stories? That has never stopped Disney before and it turns out, it won’t stop them now.
Today on Jezebel, they posted a sneak peak of the upcoming Disney-ized version of the classic tale.And you know Disney will get sanitize and make it squeeky clean. An added bonus – the film will be in 3D. So Rapunzel’s hair will be seemingly flow right in front of your face. The flick is set to be released for the 2010 holiday season. Click through to see more sneaks peek stills from the film. Continue reading »
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