Maleficent (2014)
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. She rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her heart into stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading King's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and to Maleficent's true happiness as well.
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Maleficent ,the evil fairy of Disney's Sleeping Beauty ,is among the scariest Disney villains and my favorite Disney villain.This movie has very good sets and costumes.The characters are altered (Aurora's father,Philip and the fairies especially).This movie robs Maleficent of her evil nature .She reminded me more of an evil fairy from the original fairy tale than Maleficent from the animated movie(who is evil to the core and among the first vilains to say Hell in an animated movie).Best acting came from Angelina Jolie as Maleficent.She is suitably menacing and elegant.Diaval was also good and had a very good chemistry with Maleficent.Overall,good but sorta empty.
I feel like her revenge should have been taken out on the guilty party in the first place, but overall this movie was great! I LOVE Angelina Jolie. Kudos to the creators! As for a few anti-feminist comments, Angelina makes more than you... has done more good than you ... you are effectively ignored.
I've watched this movie twice because, the story, the environment, the costumes, the CGI and the highly convincing acting is simply great. Angelina's performance is incredible; she has to express a complete set of emotions all condensed in the same movie. I particularly like how the story develops and how things turn bitter when you least expect it. I put this movie in the same category of those great fantasy movies such as Willow, The Dark Crystal and Legend. A masterpiece!
There are people here who are disappointed that this movie has no resemblance to the animated movie from decades ago...but that is presumably the intended idea. The movie is certainly scary and violent without being gory, but definitely don't take little kids to see this one. It will be quite unsuited for them.Maleficent begins life as an immature fairy in a beautiful, harmonious fairy world next to a conventional and harsh kingdom. She is visited by Stefan, a boy of a similar age from the kingdom, who implies that someday he will live in the king's castle. An innocent romance begins, but soon ends as the boy grows older, and the current ruler of the kingdom attempts to invade the fairy world with his army to steal its treasures, only to fail. As the old king is dying, Stefan claims the throne by amputating and stealing the fairy's wings. He gets the crown, marries, and has a baby daughter...only for the now-embittered and vengeful Maleficent to arrive and place a curse on the daughter. Stefan is forced to have his daughter raised by three fairies to try to keep her safe...and in the process, becomes embittered and vengeful himself. But over the years, as the daughter grows up, unaware of what had happened, Maleficent sees her and starts having second thoughts. But the cold war has started between Maleficent and Stefan; can Maleficent undo the damage she has done?Like most characters in recent fairy tale-themed movies, nobody is entirely good or evil, and everyone is the victim of the attitudes of their respective cultures and eras. Good for teenagers or above, but too upsetting for the young kids.