Tangled (Cert PG, 96 mins, Disney DVD) Featuring the voices of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman, MC Gainey, Jeffrey Tambor, Brad Garrett ****

Disney’s glorious animated reworking of the Rapunzel fairytale marries a hilarious script with dazzling and colourful visuals. The traditional recipe of rousing love ballads and a boo-hiss villain is stirred to perfection as the plucky heroine abandons her tower and explores a world that was previously out of reach. Vocal performances are almost as lively as the animation and Pascal and Maximus shamelessly scene-steal from the human characters.

Love & Other Drugs (Cert 15, 107 mins, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment) Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad, Gabriel Macht, Judy Greer, George Segal, Jill Clayburgh ***

An entertaining though curious amalgam of three different films: a forthright romantic comedy, a disease-of-the-week tearjerker, and a colourful history lesson about the introduction of a certain little blue pill to the lucrative American drugs market in the mid 1990s. Hathaway captures the physical frailties and fear of a young woman under siege in her own body, while Gyllenhaal plies his roguish charm as he teeters on the brink saying those three little words. Both capture the giddiness of lovers in the first flushes of romance. Refreshingly, sex walks hand-in-hand with emotion in the film, which treats the physical intimacy of the characters as an important element of their developing relationship.

Morning Glory (Cert 12, 103 mins, Paramount Home Entertainment) Starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Wilson, Ty Burrell, Patti D’Arbanville, Matt Molloy ***

A frothy comedy laden with polished one-liners distinguished by a scenery-chewing performance from Ford as the revered news man. Keaton gives as good as she gets and Molloy is memorable as long-suffering weatherman Ernie, who is forced to deliver reports while tandem skydiving or sitting in the front carriage of a rollercoaster. McAdams is a tad insipid and her romance with Patrick Wilson’s hunk is a trifle, but when the film is focused on antics in and around the Daybreak studio, we’re laughing uproariously.