My review of Sleeping Beauty
Celebrating 65 years of this film.
This scene from the movie is beautifully animated and well drawn. Sadly I don't think we will ever get something like this again. Although, there have been attempts to bring back 2D animation but nothing has been official. Don Bluth himself recently said eventually Disney, Dreamworks and other studios will go back to 2D animation. Sleeping Beauty's animation was fantastic and it did cost the studio a lot of money. This movie is now a classic among fans.
They met for five minutes and they both want to get married?
It's actually funny.
Now we all know the story of Sleeping Beauty aka Princess Auroa/Brair Rose, basically she was cursed by Maleficent because she wasn't invited for her celebration talking about holding a grudge. So the king and queen have their daughter taken to the forest and looked after by the three good faires Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. She meets Prince Philip and just like that she's in love with him. Then she finds out she's a princess but she can't be with the lover her life. I mean, she just met him for five minutes and she goes into post traumatic stress disorder because she can't see him again despite only knowing him for five minutes. Of course Auora pricks her finger and goes to sleep. The three good fairies go rescue Philip and he slays the dragon and kisses Aurora. They all live happily ever after.
Aurora is just your typical princess who wants to marry a prince and that's it.
I know today's era would look down on that idea. One time, I wrote a live-action remake idea for Sleeping Beauty. I would have given Aurora more character, like she wants to see what's outside the forest, loves animals, and wants to make friends. I would have shown she would love to meet a guy, get married, and have a family. If you've seen Maleficent, they give Aurora more character development and personality, even though I don't like that film because they took one of Disney's best villains more good than evil.
I find it interesting that the three good fairies are sidekicks but they actually more of the main characters because they had more screen time and dialogue. Of course all three fairies were voiced by Disney legend actresses Verna Felton, Barbara Jo Allen, and Barbara Luddy.
Verna voiced the Queen of Hearts and Barbara Luddy voiced Lady from Lady and the Tramp.
The three good faries are the best part in the film and all three are very funny.
I still wonder how they cooked for Aurora. Merryweather mentions that Flaura has never cooked before. Then how did they feed Aurora? It makes no sense.
In the film, we don't get any character development of any of the characters. If this movie were made today, the writers would add more character development and expand the characters motives. They would add more to the story and expand on certain things.
Most old Disney films are like that; we still love them because they are fun movies. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the Disney Renaissance era because we have great characters with good personalities, and they get excellent character development. The stories are well written, and we care about them, unlike today's Disney-like Wish.
In the film, Prince Philip is your typical prince who goes to save the princess from the evil witch or dragon. It's funny how Philp has no line of dialogue when he gets rescued and when he's fighting Maleficent's goons and her dragon form. It's just silent through the whole climax. I liked his horse Samson; they were funny together, especially when he says no carrot scene.
Like Aurora, he meets the love of his life for five minutes and wants to marry her. If this were made today, they would have made Philip have more character, like he doesn't marry Aurora, doesn't know her, and wants to be with someone he knows and can see spending his life. Most days, people look at the character as a bit of a creep, but he's not really. Especially when he's going to save Aurora because modern-day people would say she doesn't need no man, but it's like, who cares. Saving a life is saving a life.
Now, Maleficent has been considered to be the greatest Disney villain, and she is. She's evil and scary. I remember the scene with her casting her spell on Aurora, and we get the creepy music in the background. If you hear it in slow-mo, it's scarier.
Maleficent was just terrifying in this movie, and that's because she's one of Disney's best villains.
I wasn't a fan of the live-action films making her more good. We like the character better as a villain because the character would go on to appear in Kingdom Hearts as a villain and in the Kingdom Keeper series as one of the main villains.
Maleficent is the Mistress of All Evil, and that's why she should not be sympathetic because not all villains need to be sympathetic. We want villains we love to hate.
One of favorite moments in the film was big the climax scene between Philip and the Dragon.
Now the climax is only five minutes but it's very intense fight.
I plan to do a top epic battle list sometime in the future and this will be on the list.
Overall Sleeping Beauty, to me is a good Disney film it may lack character development but hey most classic Disney films lacked that but we still loved these films.
I give this film a 7 out of 10.
Also check out this video link of Jordan Peterson talking about Sleeping Beauty and it makes an interesting point about the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pavFsm5ZL8U&ab_channel=JordanPetersonFanChannel
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