Maleficent

WARNING: POST CONTAINS SPOILERS

Before i get into whether i liked this movie or not let me share what I was expecting.

This is supposed to be (to me) the retelling of a classic Disney cartoon from the point of view of the villain. Awesome! A villian story for once! Creepy.Twisted.True to character. Should be a great time.

The trailer featured war scenes, a dim witted Aurora, fairies, and a villain lurking in the shadows. Alright. I can dig it. Magical creatures and the fight for their survival. Seems a little out of place but let's see where they take this.

In true Disney fashion there is a song for the film which is sung by an artist whom I'm unfamiliar with. The song is creepy. Its slowed down and a kind of a downer compared to the original song from the cartoon. Now I'm thinking okay... maybe they're taking a Tim Burton approach and making this villain story all kinds of creepy and evil and truly awesome. I like this. Let's go see this movie!

With these expectations and assumptions that I had going into this movie I was highly disappointed.

The creepiest thing in the movie was that  Umbridge played the pink (fairy) pixie. Speaking of the pixies (FAIRIES!), the blue pixie (FAIRY) wasn't spunky or sassy. She was a stereotypical, golden  hearted,  dip dye haired pixie that only turned the pink pixie (evil headmistress, harry potter reference) blue once! Once!

But I must calm down about these silly and quite undereducated in the ways of human child development pixies before I turn a crow into a dog. *sigh*

Don't get me wrong, this movie is cute and funny and my eleven year old brother  and I had a great sister/brother outing. He loved the movie. Laughed all the way through it. Had some questions at the end about who was doing the narrative. "Is it sleeping beauty or maleficent? Because it sounds like Angelina Jolie". The narrator is "sleeping beauty" by the way. (Oh! And that's another thing. They never called the little beastie Briar Rose, always Aurora.)

I was really looking forward to seeing how they animated the actress into the awesome green fire dragon. Nope. No such thing happened. I guess turning a crow into a dragon is a lot easier.

Anyway I hope whatever they're doing for Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast will be great. Hopefully they'll make a great true villain story soon. Perhaps Ursula? *crosses fingers* please please please be Ursala. I volunteer to write the script!

-Awel

*art work created by me