A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess, only to discover that the child may be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land (www.imdb.com).
Director: Robert Stromberg
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley
Disney has lengthened their stride with Maleficent. It comes 56 years after Sleeping Beauty, and acts like a parallel universe. The story we are all too familiar with has taken a different route. It's comes as both a surprise and a shock to the system. Angelina Jolie, as the magnificent Maleficent, does what she can do best: bring a daunting presence that dominates the screen. With her devilishly black horns and majestic wings, she's got the looks of a villain and the consciousness to do good, that is, until her heart gets broken. Falling in love with a human has its complications. The world in which Maleficent resides is split into two. There's the magical world, containing fairies and all sorts of mythical creatures adopting a humungous forest as their home, and the human world, with a kingdom, a royal family and plenty of knights. The world looks wonderful; it's drenched with all sorts of colours; the fairies' side is incredibly bright, the human's dark and bitter. It's heavy on the CGI and some of it's astonishingly scrappy in places. Sharlto Copley's acting is honourable, his usual South African accent hardly distinguishable. Elle Fanning's Aurora stares in to space, a lot. Her fate is predictable, Maleficent's curse on her is full-proof. Some viewers may relinquish in this new take, but old fans will undyingly wish for the same, linear route as the classic.
3.5/5
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