Comments on: Review: Disney’s ‘Maleficent’ Starring Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning And Sharlto Copley

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:26 +0000

Errrr? What film did you watch? I don\’t recall maleficent "turning into a freaking dragon" . This comment proves how much you actually concentrated on this film while watching it. Your whole review is therefore flawed. Watch the film and then review it.
This film is a great piece of entertainment my whole family enjoyed, it is now one of our favourite family films. Let\’s face it, sleeping beauty is outdated, this is not sleeping beauty it is maleficent.
I can\’t stand pretentious people, even worse are pretentious critics who don\’t actually watch the films they criticise.
Maleficent turned the crow into a dragon. Watch it again.

By: t

Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:26 +0000

great critical review, I agree 100 % with your comments about the 2 dimensional characters — it could have been so much more developed –

By: bj

bj — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:26 +0000

I don't think this 'so-called movie critic" saw the same movie I did, but I think this person is over thinking and over analyzing this movie. IT'S A CHILDREN'S STORY FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!! It's supposed to be magical and fun and it shouldn't be so correct that it takes away from that magic. This critic needs to loosen up and think from a child's point of view, like Uncle Walt himself. Lighten up! Angelina was spectacular as always. So, to the critic, get some glasses, get a sense of humor and get real.

By: Bets

Bets — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:26 +0000

This review is so dead on, I feel like you were sitting next to me while I was watching this monstrosity. The only redeeming part of this film was the christening, which Jolie played to perfection. It was truly stunning. They even remembered the silhouette of Maleficent's shadow on the wall. Everything else was ridiculous. If they are going to take the greatest Disney villain of all time and attempt to explain her evil to the world, they need to do better than this. Think about it…Maleficent was so evil, she targeted a baby. And this is what the film makers came up with? It doesn't make sense.

By: PeaceBang

PeaceBang — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:26 +0000

This is the only negative review of "Maleficent" I've yet read that makes any persuasive points, so thanks for that. I loved the movie and thought it was a brilliant, imaginative feminist backstory I have pondered since I was a little girl instantly enamored of Maleficent when I saw "Sleeping Beauty." The major point you missed is that Maleficent *did* have a legitimate reason to connect with Aurora: the latter was blessed at her birth by two fairies from Maleficent's own realm. Since we're working symbolically in the fairy tale genre, that means that the same forces that created Maleficent's magnficent wings and fairy powers were at work in the little human blonde. They had a magical (spiritual) kinship. The blessing of beauty and happiness ("never blue") bestowed upon Aurora by the pixies obviously had a magical resonance for "fairy godmother" — a plot point that has been missed by unimaginative reviewers who assume that it must be some kind of maternal instinct working in Maleficent. It's too bad that you and so many other reviewers were so distracted by the bumbling pixies that you couldn't recognize them as the reconciling powers in the plot. That's how feminine power works in our world: it seems glittery and silly and giggly with distracting cleavage until you realize (if you do) that it is a force of nature. Woolverton gave us a big enough hint in having Maleficent nickname Aurora "Beastie" (suggesting something unhuman about her) and having Aurora say, the moment she met Maleficent, "I know you. You're my fairy godMOTHER." They named each other appropriately (feminism! yay!) out of a mutual recognition of each one's essential natures. It wasn't that subtle.