Director : Robert Stromberg
Running Time : 98 mins
When a fairy named Maleficent (Jolie) is betrayed by her best friend Stefan (Copley), who steals her wings so that he can present them to the dying king and claim she is dead, she takes revenge on him by cursing his first born daughter Aurora (Fanning) to fall asleep forever on her sixteenth birthday, but as she watches the girl grow up Maleficent starts to regret her actions.
This is a fun movie, though fans of Disney’s version of Sleeping Beauty might be disappointed with the liberties they take in changing the ending. Jolie is perfect in the lead, with Fanning making a believably ditzy princess and, with some wonderful special effects, children are sure to be enthralled by this film. The only issue is that so many of the characters have been changed in such drastic ways, and the fact that Maleficent doesn’t even so much as appear to die at the end is something Disney should have learned can be achieved without actually killing the character by such reinvented fairy tales as Wicked.
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