Tangled: Audiences do like ducklings. Yay!

redhead

the movies i saw over break were this one and The Next Three Days

that one was good, but man that kind of movie is just hard to watch for me

Bucketman

T.J. Nutty Nub wrote: »

Smart Hero wrote: »

T.J. Nutty Nub wrote: »

Antimatter wrote: »

Smart Hero wrote: »

biggest question I had at the end

what the fuck happened to that nerdy clerk dude after Megamind dehydrated him. Like, it's not resolved at all. I figured he's show back up after MM crashed into the fountain but nope, he's just gone.

GOD I KNOW

I THOUGHT THE EXACT SAME THING

Someone didn't stay after the credits

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeet


what happened?

Minion is washing clothes in the lair and opens the dryer to find him in there

He apologizes and used the Forget-me-stick

at least that is about as much as I can remember.

Yeah I was mad until that. Though my real big what the heck was

megamind has caused millions in property damage and the city still thinks he killed metroman, but they just fogive and forget

maximumzero

Bucketman wrote: »

T.J. Nutty Nub wrote: »

Smart Hero wrote: »

T.J. Nutty Nub wrote: »

Antimatter wrote: »

Smart Hero wrote: »

biggest question I had at the end

what the fuck happened to that nerdy clerk dude after Megamind dehydrated him. Like, it's not resolved at all. I figured he's show back up after MM crashed into the fountain but nope, he's just gone.

GOD I KNOW

I THOUGHT THE EXACT SAME THING

Someone didn't stay after the credits

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeet


what happened?

Minion is washing clothes in the lair and opens the dryer to find him in there

He apologizes and used the Forget-me-stick

at least that is about as much as I can remember.

Yeah I was mad until that. Though my real big what the heck was

megamind has caused millions in property damage and the city still thinks he killed metroman, but they just fogive and forget

Better to have a superhero than none at all, I suppose.

Calamity Jane

Dr.Funkenstein wrote: »

Anjin-San wrote: »

faster is going to be shit because it's a movie with dwanye johnson called faster

nope gonna be fun smd

no, no you may smd tho

SabreMau

Moviefone wrote:

The Movie: Disney's 'Tangled,' directed by 'Bolt''s Byron Howard and first-time director Nathan Greco – a CGI animated film designed to look like traditional cel animation, albeit in 3D. As is standard practice for both Disney and Pixar, the filmmakers didn't bother too much with names above the title: the movie stars Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi from the TV show 'Chuck', and Ron Perlman.

The Target Audience: Families headed to the mall over Thanksgiving; those with kids too young for the latest, darkest 'Harry Potter' installment.

The Competition: See above. Disney certainly threw 'Tangled' into the frey; not only did the 'Potter' juggernaut continue over the holiday weekend ('Deathly Hallows Part 1' picked up another $76 million over the five days), but Dreamworks' 'Megamind' was still going fairly strong in its fourth week of release. It turns out to have been a canny move, as there were enough family audiences to go around despite the glut of releases. For the full details of the Thanksgiving box office, check out Moviefone's Box Office Report.

The Number: $49 million for the three-day weekend; $69 million for the five-day weekend -- a very strong showing. Disney's had a (non-Pixar) animated release each November for the last three years. 'Tangled' handily outdid both 'The Princess and the Frog,' which followed a hype-building limited release with an extremely disappointing wide roll-out, and 'Bolt,' which opened to around $25 million the weekend before Thanksgiving and then held on to that number over the holiday.

In fact, Disney sort of has the Thanksgiving market cornered: a look at the chart for the all-time best Thanksgiving openings shows Disney owning eight of the top 10 spots for both 3-day and 5-day numbers (with 'Tangled' at number two on both charts, behind 'Toy Story 2'). Not all of these are family films, either; 'Unbreakable' sits at number five.

Staying Power: Well-reviewed family films tend to hold up better than average, as evidenced by, for example, Megamind, which has grossed $130 million in four weeks – nearly three times its $46 million opening number – and is far from done. $200 million would be a stretch for 'Tangled' -- there will be a lot of family-oriented competition in the coming weeks, including a 'Narnia' installment, 'Yogi Bear,' and 'Gulliver's Travels' -- but doable.

So, fairly good box office weekend, considering it was going against Harry Potter week 2.

Centipede Damascus

I plan on seeing Tangled again, and probably in 3D.

But then again I also plan on seeing Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

I doubt Yogi Bear or Gulliver will be much competition for Tangled, though.

Janson

I certainly hope Yogi Bear would not be a strong competitor!

I hope its success continues, Tangled deserves to do really well

I can't wait for Dawn Treader either.

lostwords

i'm excited for more ben barnes on the big screen.

the dreamiest

YaYa

I finally saw a trailer for Yogi Bear when I saw Harry Potter

it is like it is going out of its way to actively offend me with its terribleness

I half-expected to see "FROM THE STUDIO WHO FUCKING HATES YAYA" somewhere in the trailer

jkylefulton

I wish I'd seen Tangled in 3D instead of the plain jane showing I went to, but I didn't want to spend the extra $12 (extra $3 per person). I'm not sure my niece and nephew would have kept the glasses on the entire time (they're 4 and 6).

Janson

Lostwords, stop being me

lostwords

did you see in the trailers how he had sexy, scruffy facial hair now? *swoon*

Janson

Have you watched Bigga than Ben? He is dreamiest in that!

Janson

Also, Dawn Treader is one of the best of the series anyway

I hope it does well enough for them to make the Silver Chair

(I'd really like the Horse and his Boy, but that's so unlikely)

Centipede Damascus

Silver Chair is pretty great

I would be amazed if they get to The Last Battle, though

not to mention The Magician's Nephew

lostwords

oh man, no i haven't. gonna have to hunt for it. I saw Dorian Gray with him and colin firth in it recently, and he was also looking mighty fine in that as well

Janson

Dorian Gray was awful, even Ben Barnes could not save it.

Bigga than Ben is well worth finding, it tries a little too hard at times, but is overall very enjoyable indie fare. It does well to show the darker side of London, too

Plus Ben Barnes's character is actually likeable, as opposed to his characters in Dorian Gray and Easy Virtue!

Re. Tangled:

of course he wasn't going to stay dead; however I was shocked and appreciative of how they cut off her hair and kept it that way! Now, hair is not a big deal to me, but a coworker was telling me her sister and niece were crying because of that scene!

redhead

tangled

when her hair got chopped, my cousin instantly recognized the voice actress as mandy moore because he said the character looked like her

this simultaneously makes sense and really doesn't

SabreMau

redhead wrote: »

tangled

when her hair got chopped, my cousin instantly recognized the voice actress as mandy moore because he said the character looked like her

this simultaneously makes sense and really doesn't

Maybe?

Delzhand

Oh, by the way, folks - in case you mentally blocked it. Remember the trailers? They're making a Smurfs movie. It's 3d of course. How are all these old franchises nobody really cares about getting made into shitty 3d movies? Marmaduke? Smurfs? Yogi Bear?

Is a Rainbow Brite movie on the horizon? Or a Gummi Bears movie? Barf.

The Geek

I just find it incredibly delightful that Justin Timberlake is the voice of Boo Boo.

SabreMau

There is a new 3D Rainbow Bright TV series running...

maximumzero

The only thing that really bothers me about this entire film (Other than the fact that I just wish they'd kill off the hero for once.) Is that that Rapunzel's eyes seem way, way too big for her head.

Spoit

It was good, but princess and a frog was better

SabreMau

Whoops, it wasn't a new Rainbow Brite series. It was [vidurl=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3FpneD3RmM]a new Strawberry Shortcake series[/vidurl].

Houk

Well now you just look like a fool

SabreMau

Box Office Mojo wrote:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 plummeted in its second week but still held off formidable competition from Tangled. Burlesque, Love and Other Drugs and Faster also had their first full weeks, though none made much of an impression. Overall box office was down around four percent from last year, when The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Blind Side led the way.

Deathly Hallows Part 1 fell 66 percent to $57.5 million, which was the sharpest decline ever for a Harry Potter movie. That's significantly higher than Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire's 57 percent second week drop, which was the last Potter movie to open the weekend before Thanksgiving. With a $227.5 million total, Deathly Hallows Part 1 is still pacing ahead of Goblet of Fire, though it's slightly behind Half-Blood Prince's $229.4 million 14-day tally.

While it settled for second place, Tangled scored a huge $55 million at 3,603 locations. That brought its nine-day total to just shy of $75 million, which was way up from Disney's similarly-themed Enchanted ($53.6 million). It now seems poised to finish in first place this weekend, which is quite a feat for a non-Pixar Disney animated movie.

That seems odd, yet probably doable, since the only wide-release movie opening this weekend is The Warrior's Way, which isn't going to take much out of the family movie demographic. All the rest are limited releases. Movies going from 2nd to 1st a weekend later are rare, would be nice to see Tangled pull off the feat.

Pureauthor

Saw it a couple days ago. I think it's the... um, I think the word is 'cutest' Disney film I've ever seen. I'm not sure how to describe it, but there's just this overwhelming sense of d'awwwwwwwww throughout the movie.

Loved it, might watch it again, but if I had a complaint, the songs (except for the Villain Song(s)) weren't that good.

Also (end spoiler)

Rapunzel looks good with short brown hair.

lostwords

so hey, went to see this last night, loving it, then the freakin projector cuts off right when

(late movie spoiler)

ryder gets stabbed, then he cuts off rapunzel's hair to save her

meaning i didn't get to see the resolution so mad at that theater. can someone kindly spoil what happens in the last 10 minutes please, couldn't go to sleep last night thinking about it.

and yes, i realize its probably a happy ending, but i wanna know what happens

on the bright side, i got a refund and free movie passes and won a batman toy from the movie theater crane game after we were pushed out

but for the rest of the movie, loved loved loved it. mandy moore singing melts my heart, and the animal friends were adorable. that horse is boss.

mensch-o-matic

t lostwords:

rapunzel's evil mom dies, she has just enough magic to bring ryder back through her tears though. she and ryder go back to the kingdom, she's accepted back into the royal family and ryder marries her. max is made captain of the force or something and teaches everyone how to use pans, the guys at the bar have their dreams come true and the credits roll with really gorgeous 2d art (siiiiigh) thats all the big points i think!

lostwords

Thanks mensch!

Argh will probably rewatch it this week, mostly for the credits

Janson

I saw it a third time last night, and Moriveth and DE?AD saw it a second time (we were accompanying Ipse and his girlfriend)

Now I can persuade Mori's mother to go see it and it'll be the film I've seen most in cinemas

The credit illustrations really are lovely

Crashmo

I'm glad I'm quoted in the OP, because I actually went and saw this last weekend and it was great!

The dude wasn't near as annoying as I thought he'd be (or at least he's kept in check enough), and the same goes for the princess, really.

The settings/visuals were absolutely gorgeous, and the song in the bar just plain ruled. :^:

SabreMau

Also, a minor (spoilery) detail to note on subsequent viewings.

Her eyebrows are brown throughout the movie.

maximumzero

Saw it thrice. Twice with the girlfriend and once with my sister and brother-in-law.

Such a beautiful film.

Edit: What I noticed on subsequent viewings is how detailed and nuanced the facial animation and animation in general really is. That ending scene in the tower really gets to you based on Rapunzel's facial expressions alone.

And Rapunzel's singing part on "I've got a Dream" is amazingly animated. So much power and feeling put into it.

Edit 2:

Pureauthor wrote: »

Saw it a couple days ago. I think it's the... um, I think the word is 'cutest' Disney film I've ever seen. I'm not sure how to describe it, but there's just this overwhelming sense of d'awwwwwwwww throughout the movie.

Loved it, might watch it again, but if I had a complaint, the songs (except for the Villain Song(s)) weren't that good.

Also (end spoiler)

Rapunzel looks good with short brown hair.

It's Rapunzel's reactions to everything, she acts just like a little girl that's been locked in her room all her life would look like. Like when they're in the tunnel leading from the Snuggly Duckling, the sheer look of glee when she says "I Know!" just melts your heart.

SabreMau

Box office lower this week, as expected, but Tangled passes Harry Potter on the chart for Friday:

Tangled drew an estimated $5.1 million, tumbling 74 percent from last Friday. Enchanted was off 66 percent at the same point, grossing nearly as much and selling more tickets. In ten days, though, Tangled has generated $80.1 million, which was far ahead of Enchanted' comparable $58.4 million tally.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 plummeted 77 percent to an estimated $4.8 million, falling harder and making less than The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on their post-Thanksgiving weekend Fridays. In 15 days, Deahtly Hallows Part 1 has earned $232.3 million, trailing New Moon's $245 million and all previous Potters but Prisoner of Azkaban in terms of estimated attendance.

I expect those standings to hold up over Saturday-Sunday, though it'll probably be close. But this?

Few followed The Warrior's Way, which moseyed in with an estimated $1.12 million at 1,622 locations and ranked ninth for the day. The cartoonish, cowboys and ninjas action movie made significantly less than such low-flying movies as Jonah Hex, Dragonball Evolution, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li and Punisher: War Zone, which grossed $1.67 million on the same Friday in 2008.

What? Warrior's Way couldn't even outdo Legend of Chun-Li? Eh.

maximumzero

Ugh I really hope Disney doesn't kill off hand drawn again.

Janson

Me too, but I really hope they also do more CGI of this calibre

The hair and lanterns could not really have been done in any other medium to such great effect...

lostwords

yes, them on the boat and the lanterns all around them was such a gorgeous scene, loved it to pieces

mensch-o-matic

So basically we want good looking movies done in mediums that best accentuate their visual qualities