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Summary: WOW v.2.0
Review: Actually, this is a good movie. I recommend it to EVERYONE OF ALL
AGES!!!
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Summary: WOW
Review: Boy, I have to say as far as adult movies go, this one is fell pretty flat. Although the lead actress was attractive, she just does'nt have the talent to be in the biz. The Prince's acting was just "flacid" throughout the entire movie. The only audience I would think would find this fitting for are kids.
Just kidding. This IS a classic!!
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Summary: Disney's masterpiece
Review: Sleeping Beauty has always been my favorite Disney movie, and my appreciation for it has only grown over the years as I have learned about the painstaking artistic processes that make it look so gorgeous. With this new release, disc 1 offers the movie in widescreen and full screen, while disc 2 offers a plethora of special features, the most interesting of which concern the digital restoration process that results in the new, immaculate print of this classic. Snatch it up before they put it on moratorium!
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Summary: WOW THIS IS AWFUL!!!
Review: I was not impressed with this dvd at all. Even though it's older you should not keep producing movies that stink. I could hardly sit through the entir movie. The sound for the movie is incredibly awful as well. I do not recommend this movie to any child. Parents who just watched it as a child & say that it is good. You have to know the truth!! Don't make any kid sit through this pathetic peice of junk!!!!!! HORRIBLE I DO NOT RECOMMEND!!!!
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Summary: The all time best disney movie!
Review: Sleeping Beauty is my all time favorite Disney film and I have them all. This dvd version has some great bonus material. You won't be disappointed!!!!
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Summary: Despite its weak leads, "Sleeping Beauty" is still a keeper!
Review: I, like most, have always felt watching Princess Aurora and her prince is about as exciting as watching two sloths climbing a tree. That said, the pluses of the film far outweigh those two major minuses: great classically-inspired score, three whimsical and engaging good fairies, a wonderfully wicked villain ("Malificent"), and brilliant colors that only could be found on the palates at Disney. For many years, SB had been considered one of the lesser efforts by the studio when Uncle Walt was alive, paling in comparison to "Snow White", "Pinocchio", "Dumbo", and even "Cinderella". Now, with the new re-mastering, along with the extras, elevate the film to true classic status. Maybe the studio can do the same with the lame "Pete's Dragon"...NOT!
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Summary: A persoal favorite.
Review: When i was a little boy we had all the disney classics and I used to love this movie especially. We had lost our copy of it, but about 3 months ago we were at a used movie and cd store and we found thi and bought it.
Right when i saw it my jaw just about dropped. This movie is INCREDIBLE. I had forgotten how dark it was, but i guess i forgot many things fromback then. Melefecent rocks my world; and that whole scen where the thorns surrounded the castle was amazing. if you hav never seen it before, i suggest that you go out and rent it.
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Summary: Who doesn't love this movie?
Review: This movie is probably my favorite old Disney movie, and it's digitally remastered, which makes it especially great. The colors are spectacular, and the story makes you fall in love with animation all over again. Sleeping Beauty (in case you didn't know) is a story about Aurora, a princess, who, on the day she was to be given special gifts by her fairy godparents, she was cursed by an especially evil fairy. The curse was that on her 16th birthday, she would prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die. So, she gets taken away by her fairy godmothers and hidden in a small cottage in the forest, not told of her royal heritage. Everything is all fine and dandy until the day of her sixteenth birthday, when she meets a boy in the woods (who just happens to be her betrothed, though she doesn't know it) and her fairy godmothers give her a magical (which they REALLY weren't supposed to do) dress and cake. A spy for the evil fairy sees the magic, then the princess, and tells her, so Aurora actually ends up pricking her finger. But, everything turns out fine and dandy, and everyone lives happily ever after. Recommmended for: EVERYONE. Everyone loves this movie (for the most part), even if they won't admit it.
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Summary: Still Looks Great
Review: I vividly remember the release of Sleeping Beauty. I was old enough to go see it myself - just barely. There I was sitting way up front eating my popcorn and all of a sudden this spectacular dragon materialized right before my eyes. Popcorn forgotten, I was hooked. Cartoons never looked the same to me, and I spent the rest of my life inhaling fantasy and science fiction on a quest for the same thrill. Animation has changed quite a bit in the ensuing years, but even today Sleeping Beauty is a towering achievement. Now I'm more sensitive to the tricks of the art and can see the masterful use of perspective that made the scenes leap out at you. When I first picked up this DVD I half expected to be disappointed, to find it really wasn't so glorious in retrospect. This is hardly the case - this film is just as vibrant and alive as it was in 1959. The added dimension now is that I can see how Disney's work was a formative influence on animation even today. Artist/Directors like Miyazaki owe much to this film and its predecessor Snow White. And they freely admit it. As a production, Sleeping Beauty created a sense of legitimacy for animation that proved that high quality animation was something well beyond the Saturday morning funnies. Disney took a great risk when creating this film, pouring a tremendous amount of resources in making it something as perfect as was possible for his time. While the studio reaped the financial benefits, the audience was the real winner, as a whole genre exploded before our eyes. Even now, with anime rapidly becoming a force to be reckoned with, this film stands out for story, art, and music. The additional features, especially those that retell the making of the film, are excellent as well. All captures in fine detail on this DVD. This is a must see for anyone who still loves a fairy tale.
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Summary: My favorite- long ago, today, always . . .
Review: Between the classic Armitage backdrops and the beautiful animation (it's hard to explain to kids today that Maleficent was drawn BY HAND, not in a computer, a'la Pixar) this ranks among the most intricate animated films ever made.
This film is from an era when feats of animation were displayed without apology- the flames licking the vine that envelopes Sleeping Beauty's castle, for example(and really, the vine itself) are testament to a bygone time when stunning visual effects were all the more stunning for having come from a real hand, a real paintbrush, liquid ink.
The story itself is a departure, in classic Disney style, from the original Sleeping Beauty stories from cross-cultural folklore. Disney implements such characters as the fairies, the bumbling King Hubert, anthropomorphic animals (always) and the greatest villian of all time- Maleficent. These characters mesh with the sheer animation artistry to raise this bedtime story from the context of simple narrative to the epic romantic accomplishment of the type Disney is known for.
While we all, of course, anticipate the happy ending, the wedding, the classic Disney optimism, this one is worth looking at not only as an archetypical fairy tale, but also as an exemplar of mid-century animated art.
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