Sleeping Beauty (Special Edition)

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Summary: Simply the Best Disney ever made
Review: In an age when Disney has become a cultural icon with little or no equal, it's nice to look back at the movies that gave the company its distinction, and Sleeping Beauty is the perfect example. Walt Disney wanted the movie to look like a moving illustration, and he achieved everything he set out to do. Six years were spent giving the movie its superb animation, score, and storyline. Of course, everyone is familiar with the story of Sleeping Beauty, but, as with all of its great movies, Disney takes the original storyline and simply makes it better. After seeing the Disney version of this classic tale, anyone would be glad to forget all of the other versions. This movie was so special to Walt that, as he was designing Walt Disney World while the film was being made, he chose the Sleeping Beauty Castle to be the official symbol of Walt Disney World and of the entire Disney corporation. In my opinion, at least, this movie evokes the same feeling of distinction in everyone who sees it!

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Summary: Pricked finger on spinning wheel-from Aurora(Garry Hixon)
Review: This movie is great, a lot of fun. What's weird is all her life they keep sharp things away from her, so when she's 16 she doesn't die by pricking her finger on a spinning wheel, and of course on her sweet 16th birthday, she's sewing on the wheel and bam! she cuts herself, and dies. The prince has to make it through a gnarly maze of thorns miles wide to find her though, and slay the dragon, but he makes it. A truly kind of ignored movie though, which is sad, I guess Aurora never could compete with snow white and Cinderella, definetely the most colorful of the sleeping beauty/snow white/cinderella trilogy though, George Lucas would be proud-Thank you Walt Disney for another timeless classic, and thank you Mr Michael Eisner for keeping it dust free-love Aurora(Garry Hixon)-enjoy children!

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Summary: The dream of a lifetime!
Review: This is one of the great masterpieces of the Disney animation!
Aurora, Maleficent, Prince Philip, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are among the finest characters ever seen on the screen, and the settings and the scenes are absolutely gorgeous (Eywind Earle did a great job indeed). If we add the wonderful Technirama wide-screen format, the magnificent Technicolor and the irresistible score with the Ciaikowsky music, there's no doubt : this is the motion picture of a lifetime, that will be cherished for generations to come!!!!

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Summary: Best Disney Movie Ever
Review: Well, those who are looking into buying this probably know what a wonderful amalgam of breathtaking artwork, beautiful songs and scores it all is...

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Summary: Wonderful Disney movie!
Review: A keeper and we play it over and over. My almost 4 yrold really likes this one. I happen to love watching it with him. Add it to your Disney movie collection and I know you won't regret it.

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Summary: Stunning animation.
Review: "Sleeping Beauty" was one of the movies I watched as a child, and its grandness overwhelmed me even at the age of ten. I own a VHS tape only (is there a DVD?), and I have to say even this condensed, standard-screen version shows a gorgeous cartoon adventure with a lovely musical score. The most impressive thing is the story adaptation. If you know the book, you will notice that the passage of time is obviously nonexistent. The Disney staff had the good sense to broaden story vignettes- like showing the prince and princess meet in the forest and fall in love, unaware that they are already engaged to be married; or create a comic sequence with the fairies preparing a surprise party for their charge that goes awry, and simultaneously gives away their hiding place to Maleficent. All of these sequences seamlessly bring the story to a 75-minute feature length film- which is still amazingly compact when compared to fantasy films of today. It is lush, colorful, and full of suspense- especially the fighting dragon finale and the forest of thorns emerging from storm clouds. It's probably Disney's greatest achievement. Check it out in either format.

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Summary: Fond Childhood Memory
Review: This has to be the sweetest, most enchanting fairytale of all. How could I have ever forgotten this captivating fairytale? The three fairies that help protect the Princess Aurora, the mean, evil witch, Prince Phillip, the dragon, all spun together to make a tale that boys, girls, young & old would enjoy. I saw the beauty of this movie thru my eyes as a child, now my grand-daughters eyes.This timeless movie is a must for all children to see. Its a remembrance of a time when life was magical and beautiful, full of the things sweet dreams are made of.

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Summary: Ok!
Review: I love Disney movies and I like Sleeping Beauty but it is not my favorite classic Disney movie, I prefer Snow White and Cinderella. I'm replacing some of my Disney videos to DVD but I don't think I will buy the DVD for Sleeping Beauty I think I will just buy DVDs for the movies that I would really watch more than once like Snow White, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Parent Trap, and Mary Poppins.

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Summary: "A wonderful world of Disney"
Review: Ever since I've watched this as Little girl, I've always remembered the waltz from the soundtrack, and it has always been my favorite waltz. Now I've watched this again years later, I truely appreciate the beauty of its animation. The background animation is constructed in such detail that it is almost a true art piece. The movements of the characterers in the Disney animation have always amazed me. The dancing steps and the movements of the three fairies in this animation are truely rhythmical. This is a "wonderful world of Disney." I'll also try the Peter Pan.

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Summary: SLEEPING BEAUTY REVIEW
Review: Any original Walt Disney production, is always 100% wonderful -- true masterpieces. Sleeping Beauty definitely falls into this category. Echanting scenery, and story. Sleeping Beauty, Aurora, is indeed beautiful, and the voice and singing of Mary Costa is superb. And listening to the music, is it any wonder that the magnificent score was nominated for an Academy Award? This is a must see for anyone, any age, any time.