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Posted on December 23, 2023 Posted by John Scalzi 14 Comments
To the extent that such a thing can be said about any film that makes more than a half billion dollars worldwide and was its studio’s major release for its year, I think that Tangled is something of an afterthought in the most recent era of Disney Animation Studios domination, crowded as it is with the cultural and/or financial and/or award successes of Encanto and Moana and Zootopia , and, towering over all of these, the icy twin peaks of Frozen and Frozen II .
Some of that afterthought-ness has to do with Tangled going first; this 2010 film was the one that marks the start of this most recent era of Disney animation, paving the way for the successes of those later films. In this respect, it’s like how The Little Mermaid held the door open for Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King; for a while there Mermaid , a mere solid success, was the (slightly) neglected sibling to the other three’s blockbuster status. Sometimes being first doesn’t mean you’re the b