The soundtrack for the
Walt Disney
movie
Tangled
, which offers up a quirky, comedic take on the Rapunzel story, features songs and music from Academy Award-winning composer
Alan Menken
and Grammy nominee
Glenn Slater
. Rapunzel, expertly voiced by
Mandy Moore
, heads a cast that includes
Zachary Levi
as the dashing thief who exposes the princess to the world beyond her prison tower,
Brad Garrett
and
Jeffrey Tambor
as a pair of bumbling thugs, and Tony Award-winner
Donna Murphy
as the evil Mother Gothel, who intends to use Rapunzel's magical gifts to stay forever young.
Moore
Murphy
take on the lion's share of the work here, and both deliver the goods. The songs, especially the omnipresent
"When Will My Life Begin?"
's appropriately conniving
"Mother Knows Best,"
are cut from the same pop cloth as all of the late 20th/early 21st century
Disney
offerings, and
Menken
's score finds just the right balance between swashbuckling, goofy, and tender. ~ James Christopher Monger