Would you recommend Barbie as Rapunzel to a fan of The Nightmare Before Christmas?
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Finally, one day, when her godmother is dressing her, Rapunzel wonders out loud why her clothes have become so tight.
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In the aftermath of that film Disney set about trying to redesign the Rapunzel story so it would appeal more to boys.
Among the other longlisted movies are Tangled - a Disney adaptation of the Rapunzel fairy tale - and the supervillain-based comedy Despicable Me.
Other luxury services on offer include massages, gourmet meals prepared by the on-site chef, and hampers, delivered, the way breakfast is, via a Rapunzel-esque rope-and-basket system.
Fantasyland Forest, which will open in phases starting late 2012, puts the spotlight on several of the Disney princess characters, including Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Rapunzel, Tiana and Ariel.
As in the first two installments of this most lucrative of animated franchises, many of the jokes are media-wise parodies in particular, potshots at such Disney fairy-tale characters as Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty.
This is also the land of the deep, dark woods that Little Red Riding Hood skipped through, the land of towers tall enough for Rapunzel, and charming chocolate-box houses to tempt Hansel and Gretel.
In the first edition, Rapunzel, imprisoned in the tower by her wicked godmother, goes to the window every evening and lets down her long hair so that the prince can climb up and enjoy her company.
The studio tried to make Tangled (which is a retelling of the Rapunzel story) as appealing to boys as possible but trying to lure boys to a princess movie may turn out to be an impossible task.
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The narrator becomes a young boy (alternately played by Noah Radcliffe and Jack Broderick) who wanders into a nearby forest to escape a family argument and gets swept up in the fast-unfolding plot, in which Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who brought down the beanstalk) run collectively afoul of a witch, a wolf and a giant.
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