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 Rating:  - dark and magicalFor a fifty year old animated movie, Sleeping Beauty holds up exceptionally well for the modern viewer. While a bit light on story (evil queen threatens new born princess with curse of death, fairies cause the curse to be limited to slumber, fairies raise princess as a peasant to protect her from curse, curse strikes, etc), Sleeping Beauty tells that story quite well without relying too heavily on over-the-top musical numbers. Visually, Sleeping Beauty is one of the stronger works of from Disney with a striking Maleficent, contrasts between light and darkness, and one incredibly creepy castle for the evil queen. Outside of the fairies, the good side is a bit boring, but the three fairies carry the story and breath life into Sleeping Beauty. Of course, the movie relies on a bit of stupidity on the part of the fairies to actually have a story, but beyond that, the movie works. This one truly is a classic. This is the two disc "Platinum Edition", however, and there is an abundance of special features. This set has a commentary track and a trivia track that are each, unfortunately, buried in the bonus features menu on Disc 1. Rather than having those two features which are designed to play along with the feature be on the main menu, they are each tucked away and easily missed. The only other features on disc one are a music video from Emily Osment singing the signature song "Once Upon a Dream", The second disc has the bulk of the special features and this is broken ... Read More Rating:  - Disney's 50th Anniversary of Sleeping Beauty in Stunning Blu-ray!Walt Disney released his greatest artistic masterpiece "Sleeping Beauty" in February of 1959. After spending 6 million dollars and 8 years in the making of this masterpiece, Sleeping Beauty managed to gross 5.3 million at the box office, certainly not enough for Disney to break even on his greatest artistic achievement in animation. Disney spared no expense on Sleeping Beauty, as he used Technicolor and Technirama 70. Technirama 70 was a special system of film running through the camera horizontally, exposing two 35mm frames simultaneously. This unusual film is then printed normally on standard 35mm film and shown with an anamorphic lens for the widescreen, extra dimension effect. Unlike Disney's earlier box office successful films of "Snow White" and "Cinderella", "Sleeping Beauty" lacked the music and characters that younger children love. There are no fun songs like "Heigh Ho" or "Cinderelly" and no adorable little mice like Jacques and Gus. This movie is definitely for a little older audience that appreciates the greatest art ever created for a full length animated movie. To say it is Disney's artistic masterpiece is an understatement! I saw Sleeping Beauty when it premiered in the winter of 1959, and even though I was a small child, it was then and is still now my absolute favorite Disney movie of all time! This new blu-ray version of "Sleeping Beauty" made me feel as though I was seeing it again in 1959! This is the widest version I have ever seen and when you add hi-def 1080p and ... Read More Rating: - Beyond belief! Go Blu-ray!I was skeptical about buying an animated movie in blu-ray. I can't even express how amazing this movie looks! The color is outstanding, the scenery better than I would have ever thought possible. All the dotty looks of the old-style Disney movies has been completely erased with this enhancement and yet, you lose none of the nostalgic feel. The story is one of the best, as always and the characters are wonderful. The sound is fabulous AND you get a bonus regular dvd with this purchase which I think is wonderful (Yay portible DVD player for trips!). If you are on the rail about buying animated blu-ray like I was, don't be with this one! I bought mine on sale, but I would have paid full-price for how amazing this looks. I would recommend this to anyone. Rating: - Blu-ray specific reviewThis movie is a classic. Many reviews here describe why this movie is just that and I won't dwell on that aspect of the movie. I will say this though. This is my absolute favorite of the Disney classics. The art direction is simply superb, many scenes present themselves as multi-layered moving story books. It not only is an interesting direction but is entirely complimentary to midieval fairy tale setting of the movie. The story is wonderfully and efficiently written, and includes Disney's most memorable villian. This movie truly is a stylistic classic, a giant among it's peers. Per this blu-ray speicfically, this movie looks like it could have been produced yesterday. The absolute crispness of the backgrounds, especially forgrounds during closeups is stunning. I will say I did notice some softness of character in mid-ground shots, but what could you expect of a movie of this vintage. Even the live action shots of the story book opening is extrodinarily detailed. And it sounds great, 7.1 surround sound in hi-def DTS-HD MA audio. For a movie that was originally recorded in mono, the surround effects and "presence" and superb. Another masterful job by Disney. Bonus features: This 2 disc set includes an exhaustive set of bonus features, in line with high profile Disney releases. These include, numerous making of and historical bits, the standard interactive game and next-gen features such as BD-live and Picture-in-Picture ... Read More Rating: - True Love's Kiss Breaks the Spell"Sleeping Beauty" is a magnificent adventure now in widescreen with sumptuous detail. The backgrounds have a lush intricate medieval design while the characters seem to float through each scene effortlessly. I found the movie to be especially calming and filled with luminous beauty. Each scene is exquisite, like a painting in motion. The handmade animation has been restored to a new level of brilliance. The colors are gorgeous and keep your attention even more than the storyline, which is a bit slow in places. The basic story revolves around three good fairies who protect princess Aurora for sixteen years. Nothing too interesting happens until Maleficent (an evil fairy) transforms herself into a dragon and then the story finally has a formidable villain, which makes it a bit more exciting. However, prince Phillip seems unable to slay Maleficent until he is helped by the three good fairies. They keep the story alive and fresh with all their magic. It is fun to watch them triumph over evil. Still, the fairies are not able to undo Maleficent's curse on the princess Aurora who falls into a deep sleep after pricking her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle created by the evil fairy. The only way she can awaken is to receive a kiss from her true love. Maleficent tries to make this an impossibility, but somehow good overcomes evil in the end. Since this was my first time to see Sleeping Beauty I had never realized it was a story about an arranged marriage. Fortunately princess aurora ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: |
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