Rapunzel is stuck at home. And she’s bored as hell.

She’s baking. She’s doing jigsaw puzzles. She’s sweeping the floor and doing laundry and knitting an endless scarf she’ll probably never wear. (She’s also combing through 70 feet of hair, and playing hide and seek with a spunky animated chameleon. Otherwise, it’s all fairly banal.)

The whole scene, from the opening number of Disney’s “Tangled,” may feel a tad too familiar right now to qualify as escapism. Rapunzel, though, is trapped in her tower by an evil maternal figure, not a pandemic; she hasn’t gone outdoors in 18 years — far longer, hopefully, than any period of self-isolation we will have to endure this year.

But despite the parallels, I find myself returning to this film again and again, even during — especially during — a global crisis. It’s part classic, heartwarming princess tale, part princess fighting her way through the kingdom with nothing but a frying pan, some magic hair and a partner in crime who stumbled on her abode by mistake.

“Tangled,” one of Disney’s early forays into computer animation, came at a pivotal time for the studio. Its early 2000s lineup (remember “Chicken Little”?) was a far cry from the princess blockbusters of the ’90s (like “The Little Mermaid” or “Beauty and the Beast”). Disney needed another hit, and it was this 2010 action-filled take on Rapunzel’s story that finally delivered.