Tangled Trivia

 My kids enjoy watching movies with their friends over google meet but they often need a bit more to inspire conversation so I will sometimes put together a fact sheet for one person to add into the chat. It gives them something to laugh over and comment on and makes a movie a bit more fun! 

• Tangled was the most expensive Disney movie in the cartoon category at $260 million!

• Tangled was the first Disney "princess movie" to get a rating of PG.

• Flynn's character came from the "Hot Man Meeting" where the female workers of the studio attended a meeting where they designed Flynn by giving their opinions on hair, eye color, body type etc.

• Eugene is 26 and Rapunzel is 18, a difference of 8 years.

• Rapunzel's parents never speak.

• In the opening scenes, Rapunzel looks at her mobile which has a chameleon hanging on it (like her pet Pascal), a rubber ducky (like the bar named the Snuggly Duckling), a cupid (a character that is in the Snuggly Duckling), a horse (Maximus - the funny white horse) and a blue bird (which is from when she first leaves the tower).

• When Mother Gothel is first seen in the tower with Rapunzel, there is a spinning wheel (as in Sleeping Beauty), a pattern of an apple (from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) on the bottom post of the stairway, and her lantern has a green color (just like Maleficent's magic,  from Sleeping Beauty).

• Gothel always addresses Rapunzel's hair when she says she loves her. She kisses Rapunzel on the head and touches her hair. Alternately, Flynn brushes Rapunzel's hair away from her face.

• In the "I have a Dream" scene - you can find Pinocchio in the rafters, Pumbaa from The Lion King, and Louis from The Princess and the Frog. They each have their 'dreams': Pinocchio wants to be a real boy, Pumbaa wanted to be accepted even though he has bad gas and Louis wanted to be a jazz player.

• When Flynn and Rapunzel are looking at books - one is from the opening of Sleeping Beauty

• Over 45,000 lanterns are used during the "I See the Light" song.

• In the lantern scene the streets light up the way Rapunzel's hair does.

• When Rapunzel enters the marketplace - it is made to look like the entrance to Disneyland/world.

• When Rapunzel sees the mosaic of herself in the marketplace, there is a little clarinet music that is the same as in Ferris Bueller's Day Off when the character Cameron is looking at the pointillist painting and the camera does the same action as in the Rapunzel movie (moving between the eyes of the character and the eyes in the painting the character is looking at).

• In the kingdom dance scene there are 3,000 people - more than any other Disney crowd scene.

• Flynn doesn't call Rapunzel by her real name until after Gothel and the Stabbington Brothers separate them.

• Mother Gothel is the eighth cartoon Disney villain to fall to her death
• The Wicked Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective
• McLeach from The Rescuers Down Under
• Gaston from Beauty and the Beast
• Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Queen Narissa from Enchanted
• Charles Muntz from Up
• She doesn't actually die from the fall. She actually dies from the sudden loss of the magic of Rapunzel's hair. She is falling but she is actually aging very quickly and by the time that she impacts the ground - she is just dust.

• At the end that the king has aged but the queen has not (maybe because she was drinking a liquid version of the flower).

• The lantern that Rapunzel lifted back into the sky was the one her parents, the king and queen, launched from the palace. It was the only one with the royal symbol of the sun on it.

• The credits move back and forth across the screen like the flowing of hair.

Enjoy!