Still, given the modern take here, it might have been amusing to acknowledge that growing up in solitary confinement might give a girl some complexes, neuroses and misconceptions about life on the outside. “When Will My Life Begin?” - the initial musical number from star Disney composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater - not only enunciates her desires but shows that, during her youthful isolation, she has been extensively exposed to the arts through reading, painting, music and so on. Transformed from the original tale’s daughter of poor parents into a princess kidnapped by the scheming Mother Gothel for the power the girl’s golden locks have to keep the woman ageless, the story devised by screenwriter Dan Fogelman ( Cars, Bolt) pivots on the tension between Gothel’s need to keep Rapunzel away from the outside world and the yearning of the captive, who’s about to turn 18, to discover it. So shimmering and lush are the girl’s locks that shampoo commercials never will look the same. On the more current side of the ledger are the forthrightly adventurous heroine, egregiously present-day phraseology (“Best day ever!”) and the previously unimagined uses to which Rapunzel puts her 70 feet of golden hair, including as a whip and lasso. Walt Disney himself pondered an animated Rapunzel feature as far back as the 1940s, and there are two major elements in the film his studio finally has produced that strongly register as Disney trademarks: the flawlessly prettified rendering of nature and the leading characters as well as the incisive portrait of an evil, manipulative villainess.
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