It's because of the story and characters, coupled with the fantastic animation that bring those things to life, that Tangled IS the better film of the two. Though the box office may disagree, Tangled is more complete from a film-making standpoint.
Elsa has more control, and more power over Rapunzel. So sadly even though Rapunzel is the most original princess, the winner here is Elsa. The warrior queen, the king of the infinity stones. The two fighters will fight it out.
The simple answer: Marketing. When Tangled was about to be released, the CEO of Disney had made a self-interested proclamation: That little girls didn't want to be princesses anymore. As such, he announced that Tangled (2010) would be the final princess film indefinitely (which upset many people).
It deserves to be as well known as "A Whole New World" when it comes to romantic Disney duets. It's both intimate and soaring in scope and provides the emotional weight for Flynn and Rapunzel's relationship in a single song.
Why Tangled is an Overlooked Masterpiece and Better Than Frozen
Why is Frozen so popular?
The utter joy of Frozen is that it behaves like a classic fairytale but then bends all the rules. One of the key reasons why it's not just another animated Disney princess movie franchise is the strength of its writing, which carried consistently and powerfully through from the first movie to the sequel.
Here are the highest-grossing animated movies of all time, according to IMDbPro's Box Office Mojo: Frozen II (2019): $1.45 billion. Frozen (2013): $1.28 billion.
There's currently no word of Tangled 2 being in active development. Disney may be known for its many franchises, but big-screen sequels to Disney's animated movies are the exception.
In order to market the new film to both sexes and additional age groups, Disney changed the title from Rapunzel to Tangled while also emphasizing Flynn Rider, the film's prominent male character, showing that his story is just as important as that of Rapunzel.
“There was a desire to somehow take it into a filmic sequel," Conli said to the entertainment publication, though he admitted that the directors behind the first film, Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, weren't entirely interested in following through on an additional Tangled project.
Rapunzel was 18 years old in Tangled, one of the few Disney princess movies in which the love interest, however briefly, dies. (Rapunzel and Eugene also have the biggest known romance age gap, at 8 years).
With TANGLED, they have done so while preserving the folktale's moral themes. The movie can even be interpreted in a Christian, redemptive, spiritual manner. In the beginning, a drop of sunlight falls to the earth and becomes a glowing flower.
These strong female characters certainly have their weaknesses; they wouldn't be very interesting characters if they didn't. Elsa can be distant to the people she loves, she has trouble accepting help, and she fails to recognize her own limitations.
To the essayist's knowledge, one of the closest film adaptations to the Grimm's tale is the 1983 Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre film Rapunzel. Gothel locks Rapunzel in the tower because “you can't trust men” and to prevent a man from separating them (Cates, Rapunzel).
Both Blue Sky Disney and SlashFilm have confirmed that Disney has changed the title of their upcoming animated film Rapunzel to simply just Tangled instead. The film is an animated retelling of the classic Rapunzel fairy tale about a girl with incredibly long hair stuck in a very tall castle.
Rapunzel is the secondary antagonist of DreamWorks' 14th full-length animated feature film Shrek the Third, the third installment of the Shrek film series. She is a bogus member of the princess group and a friend of Princess Fiona.
On February 8, 2023, Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that Frozen 3 is in the works, along with Toy Story 5 and Zootopia 2. While news of a third Frozen film was a welcome one, we have yet to hear more details about the movie or see a trailer. Here's everything we know about Frozen 3.
again. Disney has announced a return to the world of Woody and Buzz in Toy Story 5. Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed there would a new Toy Story sequel coming from Pixar during the 2023 year-end earnings call. It will be the sixth feature-length Toy Story movie following 2022's Lightyear and 2019's Toy Story 4.
When the prince visits again, the witch tricks him into climbing the tower using Rapunzel's cut-off hair, only to push him from the tower. He is blinded in the fall and wanders the wilderness until he is reunited with Rapunzel and the twins she has given birth to, guided back to her by her beautiful singing voice.
While the release date for Encanto 2 is uncertain, if officially announced, fans can expect a release date of at least 2025 due to production demands. The cast is likely to feature returning voice actors from the first film, including Stephanie Beatriz and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Children respond to stories that employ magical realism, so Elsa—as a superhero with what one of our daughters (Maryam's) and her friends call “ice powers” (the ability to create a whole castle of snow and ice using only her fingers)—has special appeal.
Among the main criticisms of Frozen 2 are that a lot of the introduction feels like it's moving the characterization backward, it doesn't hit the emotional depths of the first, and while the story is ambitious, it doesn't quite work in execution.
