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Filled with jealousy, the evil witch Maleficent (Eleanor Audley) curses Princess Aurora (Mary Costa) to die on her 16th birthday. Thanks to Aurora's guardian fairies (Verna Felton, Barbara Jo ...
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- Clyde Geronimi
- G
- Walt Disney Pictures
Sleeping Beauty (1959) is not strong on story, I will admit. It embellishes little on top of the fairy tale and outside of the fairies and Maleficent (truly one of the greatest villains in classic film) none of the characters manage to rise above being mere ciphers.
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- Clyde Geronimi
- Kids & Family, Fantasy, Animation
Sleeping Beauty is frightening, overcoloured, overanimated and overwhelmingly vulgar, with a lot of lugubrious wordage set to Tchaikovsky's music. Full Review | Mar 14, 2018
With Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton. After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.
- (162K)
- Animation, Adventure, Family
- Les Clark, Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson
- 1959-01-29
The animation is – as with all the early Disney’s – jaw-droppingly good. Thanks to its recent restoration, this film is also full of eye-popping colours, with the bright pinks and blues of the fairies’ frocks providing a terrific contrast to the sickly purples and greens of Maleficent’s castle.
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The attention to movement and detail is stunning, with multiple layers of action filling the frame. The highlight of the film, the fight with the dragon, is terrifying, exciting, and brilliantly executed, though some youngsters may find it a bit too scary.