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Paul uses the Italian Renaissance style of painting for the illustrations. It’s lovely and it has a very unique feel to it. The original story of Rapunzel originates from Italy in a tale called ‘Petrosinella� or parsley. He melds this with pieces of Grimm’s tale for a story from his pen. Rapunzel is taken to a tower at 12. It basically serves as a chastity belt. The thing is, there is no education so when the girl meets a man the first time, nature takes its course and she gets pregnant. How would she know. She never saw a man before.

When she is pregnant, the witch(who is a fairy in this story and lets me honest, fairies would not care if you were having sex, so they should change that.) throws her out. The prince is fooled and he falls out of the tower and goes blind from it and wanders in the wilderness until he stumbles across Rapunzel and they find each other. His eyes are healed with her tears and they live happily ever after. There were 2 children, so either she had twins, or she meet another stranger in the wilderness.

The message seems to be something about virtue or overcoming silly beliefs. I don’t know why, but I have always loved this fairy tale. I haven’t heard this one before and I like it.

The niece gave this 4 stars. She loved her hair and the dress and the artwork. We like to watch this cartoon together. The nephew said the movie was way more exciting and he wanted to know why her hair wasn’t magic. He gave this 3 stars.

This version is worth checking out, but it does bring up sex, so be prepared for questions.