TANGLED ‘Grounded For Life’ Featurette, Meet Mother Gothel & Flynn Rider

From Yahoo! Movies comes this new featurette from TANGLED. After seeing it at a screening last Saturday, I can’t tell you how excited I am about this magical movie! In this vignette, Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore) finds ways to keep busy while she’s locked away at the top of a tower. The film features new songs and a score by eight-time Oscar®-winning composer/songwriter Alan Menken THE LITTLE MERMAID, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALADDIN, POCAHONTAS, and, most recently, ENCHANTED.

Walt Disney Animation Studios would also like to introduce you to MOTHER GOTHEL from TANGLED

Have a look at the villainess (voiced by Donna Murphy) in this new video.

She may be controlling, manipulative and over-protective, but MOTHER GOTHEL is the only mother Rapunzel has ever known. By stealing Rapunzel as an infant and raising her in the tower, Gothel ensured that she alone would have access to Rapunzel’s magical hair, which she uses as her personal fountain of youth. Gothel loves Rapunzel more as a possession than as a daughter, and uses every weapon in her arsenal “including a constant flow of subtle jabs, backhanded compliments and over-the-top guilt trips” to keep Rapunzel hidden away. When Rapunzel finally defies her wishes and ventures out into the world, the delightfully deranged Gothel will to stop at nothing to get her little girl back into the tower.

The directors of TANGLED are here to give you the inside scoop on the creation of Flynn Rider!

Synopsis:

Walt Disney Pictures presents TANGLED, one of the most hilarious, hair-raising tales ever told. When the kingdom’s most wanted “and most charming” bandit Flynn Rider (voice of Zachary Levi) hides out in a mysterious tower, he’s taken hostage by Rapunzel (voice of Mandy Moore), a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with 70 feet of magical, golden hair. Flynn’s curious captor, who’s looking for her ticket out of the tower where she’s been locked away for years, strikes a deal with the handsome thief and the unlikely duo sets off on an action-packed escapade, complete with a super-cop horse, an over-protective chameleon and a gruff gang of pub thugs.

Marking Walt Disney Pictures’ 50th full-length animated feature, TANGLED will be in theaters on November 24, 2010. Get ready for a story of adventure, heart, humor and hair – lots of hair – this holiday season in Disney Digital 3D.

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