Hermione Granger This is a beautiful movie! From backgrounds to songs, this is a masterpiece. The backgrounds look real, Aurora is a beautiful singer, there is romance, there is adventure, Maleficent is one of the most dangerous and exciting Disney villains.... This is an excellent movie.Of course, it isn't perfect. There are some parts that are a bit dull and where I'm itching for the movie to become a bit faster, such as when Aurora is walking up stairs to touch the spindle or when the fairies put everyone to sleep; and meeting someone "once upon a dream" is a bit weird, but the song makes up for it, and those are not enough to make me keep from watching it! There are moments that give me sheer joy. I love the little-known song "I Wonder" that Aurora sings, and the movie is a beautiful and delicate story that is entertaining and worth watching.

Davis P That is my favorite quote from this Disney classic. Disney really didn't shy away from being real and didn't try to stay completely G rated. And I love that about this film. Maleficent is an excellent villainous, she has the perfect evil look and the voicing is great too, fits the character well. The fairies are great lovable characters. I always forget which is which but I know they're flora fauna and maryweather, hope I didn't butcher the names lol. But anyways, the fairies that guard and look after Aurora as a child are very colorful and fun characters which makes the movie overall more fun and fitting for kids to love. Aurora is an alright Disney princess, I don't know she's just not a very good character to me personally. Now I did like Prince Philip as a character, he's a charming lovable male love interest. I would've liked the romance between Aurora and Philip better if Aurora wasn't so bland and boring as a character. Aurora really is the only part of the movie I just don't really care for. The rest is great and very entertaining. This is yet another Disney movie that I do recommend for a fun family movie night. The action is fun and engaging and I especially loved the special effects, they're the best when it comes to Maleficent. 8/10.

anaahnu The most beautiful Disney movie (later parodied in Rapunzel, which itself, with all its hilariousness and high spirits, is a movie meme). One of the most beautiful Disney princesses, as well: chaste, kind, delicate (if one can say so about a cartoon character - but I think one can!) The noble king's daughter, which at the same time is a simple barefoot peasant girl, both charming and modest. (Only in the 60th, I guess, could such a character emerge onto the big screen). Not to mention the dreadful Queen of Darkness, her devils, which are truly ugly and frightful... And the moment when she grows up into something incredibly dark and enormous, up to the very clouds (you want, in spite of yourself, to close the eyes and not to see). But the Sword of Truth will not fail prince Philip; the hard-to-win evil Thing shall be destroyed. It's a shame the legendary movie was later duplicated and even multiplicated in tasteless fakes ('The Swan Princess', with an awkward queen Huberta, for instance). But The Sleeping Beauty remains with us. It can be watched and re-watched. I think it will be. For long...

rekocarreis I chose to write a review of the Disney movie "Sleeping Beauty", as it is disturbingly different from its origin. It is an adaptation of the fairytale by Charles Perrault, "The Beauty in the Sleeping Wood". The Disney version of the fairytale begins with Princess Aurora as a child. Her parents promise that she will marry Prince Phillip of the neighboring kingdom in order to unite the families. They have three fairies come to bless and give gifts to Aurora. The first gift is that of beauty, and the second is that of a beautiful voice. Before the third can be given, Maleficent, the mistress of all evil, arrives and is angry that she was not invited to Aurora's christening. She curses Aurora and says that before the night of her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die. Luckily, the third fairy had not given her gift to Aurora, so the third fairy says that instead of Aurora dying, she will fall into a deep sleep. This is where the Disney adaptation and the original fairy tale go their separate ways. In the Disney version, Aurora is brought by her aunts (the three fairies) to live in safety until her sixteenth birthday. However, she still pricks her finger and is cast into a deep sleep. Prince Phillip fights Maleficent, who turns herself into a dragon, and rescues Aurora by awakening her with a kiss. This is very different from the original version.In the original, Aurora pricks her finger and falls into a deep sleep. One day, the Prince happens by her home and knocks on the door. No one answers, so he climbs in through a window. There he finds Aurora. He tries to wake her, but she is unconscious. So, oddly and disturbingly enough, he proceeds to rape her. Aurora awakens after giving birth to twins. One of her babies tries to find her breast, but finds her finger instead. The baby sucks the splinter from the spinning wheel out of her finger, and Aurora wakes to find that she has two children. This is alarming to me, because she simply accepts her children and does not question their origin or legitimacy. Prince Phillip is married, and murmurs the children's names and Aurora's name in his sleep. The queen is furious, understandably. However, though her anger is understandable, she reacts in a disturbing way. She orders the cook to find and boil the children, so that they can be fed to Prince Phillip. The cook does not comply, and instead cooks two lambs. The queen taunts Phillip after he eats the lamb and tells him that he has eaten his own children. After this, the queen creates a fire in order to burn Aurora alive. Prince Phillip manages to stop this from happening and orders that the queen be put to death. And, oddly enough, Prince Phillip and Princess Aurora fall in love and get married. The difference between the Disney version and the original version are astoundingly different. I've never cared much for the Disney movie, mostly because I found it boring and cliché, even as a child. Though, now knowing the original version of the story, I can see why the movie would come off as boring. Disney clearly had to remove huge portions of the story in order to make it colorful, glossy, and suitable for children. In my honest opinion, I think that Disney should have left this one alone. The movie is superficial and contains no real message. The bulk of the story had to be removed, and, though what was removed was alarming, it leaves behind a well-worn, lifeless attempt at something lighthearted and magical.