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Summary: Okay Film - Poor Extras
Review: This was sneaked out onto release on region 2 disc ages ago in England (minus commentary). Although the film is visually stunning and has some nice set pieces it lacks warmth and, with some small exceptions, has no compelling characters. The extras are as dry as sticks and smack of the pompous. If you want a special edition Disney disc stick to 'The Lion King' or 'Beauty and the Beast'.
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Summary: Not my favorite film, but nothing inherently wrong here
Review: I don't know why this film just doesn't do it for me. But it doesn't. My daughter likes it though. There's not too much here to be concerned about. Some scary scenes, but not the worst offender by far. A lot of people have fond associations with this film. I just don't happen to be one of them. But I wouldn't hesitate to let my kids watch it.
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Summary: Animation classic..
Review: This DVD is a "must have" for any animation fans. The Special Edition has the widescreen version as it was originally shown in 1959. This was the first animated movie shot in 70 mm. I couldn't believe how much of a difference it made from having the sides croped off for television.The 2nd disc has great extras showing the main artist's involvement and the black and white acting for the fight scene.
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Summary: A Classic But Long in the Tooth
Review: I remember seeing this film in the theater, not sure what year. It was the habit of Disney to show their films in rotation, one year Sleeping Beauty, another Bambi, another Snow White, Fantasia, Alice In Wonderland, and so on. This was before the age of VCR's. When I saw it I was very small. Maleficent, the evil witch that put a curse on Aurora, frightened me, as she did when she became the gigantic fire-breathing dragon. I had a few nightmares about this film. I would caution parents with very small children to watch the tape first without the child present to see if these images are appropriate for their child. At times, Disney was a bit too over-the-top in the earlier classic cartoons when it came to violence and death and I can recall a few other films he made where the images were too much for me to understand and frightened me instead. I remembering being very upset when Bambi's mother was shot dead, crying through a good portion of the rest of the film. When I saw Snow White's stepmother turn into the wicked old hag I could no longer look at the screen and wanted to leave the theater. Disney's company was even responsible for a horrible cartoon called "Hitler's Children" that was made during WWII, I believe as propaganda. (I was able to view this cartoon recently and was appalled at the images and language!) So, even though these old cartoon films are called "classics" parents should take the time to view them before their children do and spare their children some unhappy moments. I wish my parent had had the same option. The rest of the film tells a good story and the art is visually interesting despite being so old. I give this film 2 1/2 stars
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Summary: Beautiful!!!
Review: This is a classic a still must have after so long being out I liked it I enjoyed it Walt Disney has some of the best cartoons of all time and I enojoy them I would reccommend anyone to buy all of Walt Disney's classics!!!
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Summary: By the pricking of my thumb...
Review: This classic fairy tale has been impressively rendered by the Walt Disney studios. By and large the original story, about a beautiful princess put to sleep by an evil sorceress (the wonderfully witchy Maleficent steals the show) remains intact. The drawing style has been criticized by animation critics for its angularity, but the cartoon attempted to capture the look of French medieval manuscripts. Features music adapted from Tchaikovsky.
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Summary: beautiful...
Review: This was never one of my favorites, though I've come to appreciate it. I won't consider this a definite classic like The Little Mermaid or The Lion King, but it's up there. I thought that Aurora's voice is a bit too womanly for her, certainly very different from the singing voices of the other princesses. And I know this is going to sound strange, but it just felt to me that Aurora and Phillip's relationship wasn't very developed. I mean, it's a Disney...but at least the other movies had more interaction between the characters, even though it was love at first sight. In this respect, Sleeping Beauty falls in with Snow White and Cinderella. But overall, the movie was very entertaining...I loved the scene between King Stephen and Phillip's father, when they were drunk. And the three fairies are so adorable! I didn't realize till I watched this again that Maleficent also had a sense of humor when she captured the prince and told him that he would be released in a 100 years. Families will definitely enjoy this movie.
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Summary: A teenager dream
Review: I am a 15 year old teenager. I have been watching Sleeping Beauty since I was 2 years old and until nowadays I am drawn to watching it once every two weeks. Ebveryone thinks that itis strange for a girl at mt age to watch Disney movies, but this movies are the best, specially Sleeping Beauty, because it rescues the concept of real love, long forgotten, in pure innocence, without any sexual innuendos, but exploring a child's imagination.
This movie has an unique touch, the main characters, Aurora and Prince Philipe, almost don't have any major lines; they just transmit their feelings through their eyes. This movie can get inside your feelings by the melody and the beuaty of nature and colors, it also makes you forget reality and start beliving in your own dreams!
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Summary: Stunning Remastering
Review: Sleeping Beauty was one of the first Disney animated films I remember my folks taking me to see. As a child during my 'dinosaur' phase, I loved watching Maleficent turn into the dragon and fight Phillip. The story, you should know by now of course, young princess whisked away by three fairy 'godmothers' to protect her from evil sorceress, raised in the forest unaware of her heritage, meets prince charming unaware he's a prince, eventually finds out they're betrothed to each other as prince fights sorceress. The re-mastering technique employed on this DVD yielded incredible results, the image was actually more vibrant and colorful than originally aired in 1959 and it looks marvelous on today's widescreen HDTVs. I was quite taken with the art, quite unlike anything Disney has done before or since with it's angular geometry and perpendicular themes. Aurora and Maleficent duel for most beautiful Disney female forms to date. The extras on the DVD are quite interesting as well. The original theatrical companion pieces The Grand Canyon was sublime and the snippet of how four artists paint a tree helped glean a bit into the mindset of the brilliant artists on the Sleeping Beauty project. Highly recommended, not just as a child's story, but as an impressive art piece and study of mood and texture.
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Summary: Music
Review: I have a 16 month old son who loves this movie. He is really into the music. When the songs start he dances and really lights up. I have even seen him kiss the TV. Its a great kids movie. It seems like all little kids like the movies with the babys in them. Its a great way to catch there attention right at the begining, and then the way it flows with the music and the farries it realy keeps there attention the hole way throug.
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