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Summary: The main reason this film is good is the Villian
Review: Maleficent is probably one of the cruelest disney villians from any disney movie, she ranks number 1 right up there with Cruella DeVill, Ursula The Seawitch and Jafar from Aladdin. The story does not let down, and this movie is simply a masterpiece, the voices are well done, the story is good, do not be mistaken It his movie appeals to me because of the story and not because it has a beautiful princess and a prince, I heed you watch this not only for the story but for the Wicked Maleficent, as she is the true definitive word of Disney Villian.
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Summary: Excellent 2 Disk Set & Gorgeous Package
Review: I was in Lebanon for a week and was extremely surprised to find the Sleeping Beauty DVD in their Virgin Megastore, though the cover was in French, the employees there assured me it was in English too. The box is beautiful all in purple feautring the classic kiss scene with the transparent head of Maleficent over them. it's a gorgeous matt box that's open from the right. All the contents of the DVD is written on the back (in french sadly). Through the pocket you pull out the 2 DVD envelope case (like the EU Harry Potter DVD), the DVDs looks gorgeous and full of color. It also includes a shett of the scene numbers. The first DVD before anything asked if I wanted to watch the whole DVD in english or french- which i found delightful since I've never seen this in any DVD- and everyhting from menu to little details was in english. It contains the movie, making of feature, rescue Aurora game & a coloring book. The back of the DVD states there's also a special episode of Art Attack about making Sleeping Beauty's castle- sadly I didn't find this on the disk, so I don't know if this is a Hidden Feature. I tried to look for it but couldn't find it. One this is for sure, it's not on DVD 2. Interesting! Disk 2 was a disappointment since the menus are in french so I didn't know what was going on, and sadly even some of the videos were dubbed French over the english track, which is very annoying and unprofessional. And the features that actually were in English had large french subtitles, and there's is no option for not viewing subtitles. I must admit that the french menus are a turn off, so sadly I lost all anticipation to watch the special features that i eagerly awaited. One very important note, the DVD menus and Design is STUNNIG, the menus are made like old manuscripts and it's gorgeous. A very big shock is that this DVD is not released as a part of the "platinum collection" like Snow White & Beauty and the Beast, yet production wise, the cover, package, disk and menu designs surpass both Special Edition DVDs by a hundred mile. the only reason I'm writing this review is because I couldn't find any information about this DVD anywhere (even on Disney.com) and I thought Fans of this movie would love to know what they're getting. If you need any scans of screen shots of this DVD please feel free to contact me.
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Summary: I know this is the best disney movie i have seen!
Review: This disney movie is the best disney movie i have ever seen! the second i saw it i fell in love with the movie! it is dazzling and fantistic movie it would keep you in your seat for the whole time till the end! thia movie rocks!
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Summary: head and shoulders above the rest
Review: This is, by far, my favorite cartoon ever. It was the one I watched most as a kid and the one that I still think the most about today. I know the DVD isn't released yet, but I have no doubt that high definition and widescreen will be enough to make it a superior buy.
What is perhaps the best about this movie is that Tchaikovsky's score is used instead of some odd Disney musician. Don't get me wrong, Disney has turned out some wonderful songs over the years, but when the entire score comes from one ballet, there is a flow to the entire movie that other Disney films don't have. The music seems to all be drawn from a common theme, not several seperate songs thrown together like it is today.
Furthermore, Disney's recent political correctness isn't present at all; Phillip & Aurora's fathers get drunk together, something that would never but put on screen today.
The characters are also very well drawn. Even if it was all hand drawn and there are no computer special effects, I think that Aurora and Phillip are probably the best looking couple Disney has ever turned out. The backgrounds are also lushly rendered in watercolors, not the computerized exaggerations so prevalent in "Hercules" and later films.
The horror and comic relief are great as well, strong and engaging enough even for the most mature audiences to still be enthralled. Maleficent and the three fairies play at odds very well and I think that the charcters share some very deep screen chemistry, even for an animated movie.
That's what I like the most. The film wasn't made for children; it is truly an animated "feature film" for audiences of all kinds and, though I like most of Disney's movies, none really can compare to "Sleeping Beauty."
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Summary: one thing missing a part 2 !
Review: i loved this movie it's one of my favorites but i think they should make a part 2 like when rose marries the prince and they have a child who explores the woods like her mother once did look i'm sorry oh it's ok if you don't agree with me you guys but you should agree with me one day you'll wise up and make a script
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Summary: The most beautiful Disney film ever made
Review: "Sleeping Beauty" is a classic, needless to say. It's a wonderful romantic fairy tale story brought to the screen with fantastically realistic animation, haunting and melodic Tchaikovsky music, humor, and gorgeous backdrops. The most extraordinary thing about this animated film is that no computers were used. Every pose was hand-drawn and painted (remember when animated films were drawn by hand?), and transferred to 70 mm, another first for a Disney film.
This is guaranteed to make a great transition to DVD. The restored version on VHS is already beautiful and it's not even in widescreen. Not only can I not wait to see the film in its original format, but I also look forward to also seeing other documentaries about the process of making the movie and why it is still timeless today. Hopefully they'll produce a disk or two similar to the one they made for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," celebrating the debut of a landmark animated film on DVD. If only studio execs would get cracking!
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Summary: The most underrated Disney film ever
Review: "Sleeping Beauty" has always been something of an anomaly in the Disney canon. There isn't another movie like it, animated or otherwise, and its tendency to go overlooked renders the distinction all the more tragic. With all due respect to "Pinocchio," "Bambi, "Fantasia," "Cinderella" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," they're just not "Sleeping Beauty."
Walt Disney made his sixteenth animated feature (and there is no more appropriate number for this particular fairy tale) at a volatile stage in his studio career, and the final product reflects many experimental but surprisingly harmonious influences. The entrancing score was taken from an original ballet by Tchaikovsky, and the animation, clearly derived from medieval imagery, has both an astonishing purity and a curious quaintness. It doesn't leap off the screen the same way "Snow White" does, and the human characters, many of whom are intentionally comic as opposed to heroic figures, don't have nearly as much fullness or dimension. "Sleeping Beauty," based on a story by Charles Perrault, transforms that vice into a virtue. What to make, after all, of a fairy tale whose heroine spends most of the movie out of commission? Well, if you're Walt Disney, you relegate the near-perfunctory love story to the backburner while the Good Fairies and Maleficent calmly steal the picture. A risky solution, but in this case, the best one. Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, who were inspired by real-life old ladies at the supermarket (Merryweather, in particular, is so cute you wish you could keep her on your bookshelf), have an intoxicating fussiness, and their conversation sparkles with the sort of pleasant banter you can enjoy as a child and enjoy even more as an adult. As for Maleficent (magnificently voiced by Eileen Audley), running neck-and-neck with "The Little Mermaid's" Ursula for the title of all-time greatest Disney villain, she's a wickedly charismatic presence, as chillingly beautiful as she is demonic. Scene for scene, "Sleeping Beauty" has more imaginative visual curlicues and hidden-gem sequences than nearly any other Disney movie. To watch the film a second, third or fiftieth time is to be in a state of constant anticipation of the next glorious set-piece, whether it's the harrowing extended climax -- a truly thrilling clash between good and evil, and a considerably more violent spectacle than we're accustomed to in movies like this -- or a moment as simple and luminous as the Fairies disappearing into a jewelry case. The animators have employed a higher degree of stylization and more surreal touches than usual (watch the early scenes in which the Fairies bestow their individual gifts upon the princess), complemented in full by Tchaikovsky's marvelous music. I can't remember when I've seen such an impressive confluence of sound and image, such a seamless match-up between the nuances of melody and rhythm and the accompanying shifts in color and movement. The score is unapologetically devoid of Broadway-style numbers and tongue-in-cheek lyrics (there is one musical sequence featuring the requisite "cute" rabbits, robins, squirrel and owl, none of whom, thankfully, burst into song), lending the film a timeless classicism that today's animation, steeped in pop-culture references and misguided attempts at Gen-Y appeal, can only dream of. I watched "Sleeping Beauty" recently for the first time in nearly a decade, and the experience was like reuniting with a very old, very eccentric friend. I could analyze it to death (I probably already have), but fairy tales, especially Disney fairy tales, aren't made to withstand academic scrutiny. They're made to be remembered, not as a homogeneous mishmash of stale happy endings, but as individual vintages, each with its own vivid flavors and memories. "Sleeping Beauty" -- to quote a lesser classic, the fairest of them all -- is a film to savor and cherish.
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Summary: Maleficent, You're Magnificent!
Review: I have watched this film countless times with my daughter, and find it to be one of the most beautiful drawn Disney features to date.The fourteenth century is the backdrop for King Stephan and his queen to introduce baby princess Aurora to the world. While she is being blessed by the 3 good fairies, Flora, Fauna, and the adorably chubby and rambunctious Merryweather, Maleficent rears her most intriguing, green pointed head. Angry about not being invited to the gathering, she bestows an evil curse upon the newborn, to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel, and DIE". This to happen before sundown on he sixteeth birthday. .............. The tale is beautifully spun among lushly drawn surroundings populated with one of a kind characters. Aurora is beautiful and innocent in the face of impending danger, King Hubert's son Prince Phillip is one of the most handsome princes. The three fairies who guard and raise Aurora in secret to protect her whereabouts from Maleficent, are lots of adorable fun. Speaking of Maleficent, she is probably my favorite Disney villain of all time, tied perhaps, with Snow Whites' "Old Hag", who is hideously hard to beat in the villain realm. ................... "Sleeping Beauty" is a quality Disney classic that has stood the test of time. I highly reccommend this entry is Disney's vast filmography for children, and their significant elders, to enjoy again, and again.
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Summary: Maleficent, You're Magnificent!
Review: I have watched this 1959 Disney classic countless times with my daughter, and find it to be one of the most enjoyable Disney features to date. ................. A wonderfully detailed fourteenth century is the backdrop for King Stephan and his queen to introduce baby princess Aurora to the world. While she is being blessed by the 3 good fairies, Flora, Fauna, and the adorably chubby and rambunctious Merryweather, Maleficent rears her most intriguing, green pointed head. Angry about not being invited to the gathering, she bestows an evil curse upon the newborn, to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel, and DIE". This to happen before sundown on he sixteeth birthday. .............. The tale is beautifully spun among lushly drawn surroundings populated with one of a kind characters. Aurora is beautiful and innocent in the face of impending danger. King Hubert, is jolly and lovable, and his son Prince Phillip, Aurora's intended, is one of the most handsome princes. The three fairies who guard and raise Aurora in secret to protect her whereabouts from Maleficent, are lots of adorable fun. Speaking of Maleficent, she is probably my favorite Disney villain of all time, tied perhaps, with Snow Whites' "Old Hag", who is hideously hard to beat in the villain realm. ................... "Sleeping Beauty" is a quality Disney classic that has stood the test of time. I highly recommend this entry in Disney's vast filmography. It's a fairy tale that children, and their significant elders, will enjoy again, and again.
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Summary: Sleeping Beauty
Review: Excellent service! The movie was in mint condition and delivery fast.
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