It's hard to take a short story from Grimm's Fairy Tales and make it into a 90 minute movie, but I think the folks at Disney did a decent job with it. For a fairy tale, I had the usual feelings of hope and romance, wanting the couple to end up together in the end. I liked some of the justifications produced for the quirks of the story. Why was her hair so long and never cut? Because her hair had healing powers and if cut it loses it's magical quality. Why did the witch lock her in a tower? Because she wanted to use the healing powers to keep herself young forever. Now for the difference (you know how I like to point those out):
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