“Tangled” rocked the traditional Disney princess formula, including a male lead and a splash of humor to go along with the 70 feet of golden hair and shining tiara of the classic story. Almost all of the movie’s principal characters have returned in “Tangled Ever After,” a new cartoon short that opened in cinemas this weekend, displaying before the 3D re-release of “Beauty and the Beast.”

“We don’t want to do a sequel for the sake of sequels,” explained Byron Howard, a Disney animator who along with Nathan Greno directed the 2010 movie and the new short. “The story has to be worth telling.”

“The movie kind of buttons up, but the one thing we didn’t do in the movie was a wedding,” Greno affirms of the picture. “There’d be a beautiful wedding of Flynn and Rapunzel, just like the royal wedding. It would be this big, grand event.” The directors talk about during the interview how that result in the short’s plot of Pascal the chameleon and Maxiumus the horse losing Flynn and Rapunzel’s wedding rings on their big day.