I never really have liked Disney movies and I think they do not instill ideals favorable to a productive society. I don’t like writing about entertainment, but I feel I had to call these themes out to inform the general public. I had 
already watched Tarzan and discovered that it criticized European imperialism, but embraced civilized culture.
Similar themes come up in the popular movie, “Tangled.” Rapunzel is kept inside a tower for 18 years and is told by her “mother” that the outside world is scary and dangerous. I believe this supports the ideal that people must conform, not rebel and more simply not leave society and go into nature. Then one song claims: “Mother knows best!” and that Rapunzel is clueless. In one scene common people are shown as drinking and partying, not knowing what’s happening. These two previous statements support an Deweyite ideology that people cannot deal with affairs by themselves and that only a specialized class can only deal with human affairs. This ideology is also shared in Marxists and Leninists philosophy. Wonderful! (sarcastic)
Moving on through the movie, there was a few more disturbing undertones. Monarchy is portrayed as fair and civil, when in reality it isn’t that way. People don’t have much a voice and are suppressed. The male protagonist and narrator named Eugene (he has another name as well) is greedy, wanting things for his self-benefit. Guess what the result of his greedy actions are? He gets rewarded, by getting married to Rapunzel. So, I believe the movie supports greed. At the end of the movie, a song that is seemingly stuck in there talks of everyone getting everything they want, which supports the them I have been talking about and consumerism.
Everything in the movie ends with the commonly used “happily ever after” but that’s not how life really goes. From the conclusions I’ve made in this piece I would strongly suggest that you never watch this movie, unless you want these themes in the heads of your children or yourself.
Deceit.