[Review] Maleficent

Disney movies are always on my must watch list! :D So... Maleficent is of no exception! I was really excited to watch it! I finally watched it last Sunday with my family. I have to say that I absolutely adore the graphics and scenery. They're so beautiful! :D Also the way the story line is written is also wonderful. There were a few unexpected twists along the way which is what makes it wonderful and a good movie as well. For me, when I watched the trailer, I knew the storyline revolved around one of my all time childhood favourite fairy tale 'The Sleeping Beauty'. I knew this fairy tale by heart as it was one of my favourites and also that I have been read and read myself, the book about a thousand times over. heheh So without further ado, I'm going to go into analysing the story as well as telling most of the movie scenes. Thus, to those who haven't watched it yet, I give a fair warning of SPOILERS ALERT up ahead. Proceed if you wish to know before you have watched it. :P Here's the trailer.

Maleficent Official Trailer 3

So Maleficent was unexpected for me. Its storyline revolves around the disney fairy tale, 'The Sleeping Beauty'. Well, yeah it did revolve around it but with a twist. The director took it up another level by using the original fairy tale as a plot but only now the main character here is not Princess Aurora, well it still is in some parts, but rather it revolves around the guardian of 'The Moors', Maleficent. Maleficent is the guardian of The Moors, played by Angelina Jolie. Like all fairies she had wings but Maleficent, the guardian of The Moors, was no ordinary fairy, she is the strongest of them all. She had huge wings the colour of chestnuts and they dragged behind her when she walked. She had two huge horns on her head. However, despite all that, she looked beautiful. Maleficent was but a young girl when she met a boy who tried to steal from The Moors named Stefan. Stefan was a orphan and he lived in a barn. Everything started out so innocently, where they became friends, and later the closest of friends and then lovers. They grew and played together on The Moors. On her sixteenth birthday, Stefan told Maleficent that he was going to give her a gift, true love's kiss. They were both very young and blinded. Maleficent having grown up on The Moors had never encountered the nature of humans and their greed. After awhile, Stefan soon left Maleficent to find his place in the world. Years passed and Maleficent blossomed into a magnificent lady. One day, a king heard of this powerful creature who lives in The Moors. He wanted to kill it, but he failed. He then ordered his subjects to kill the creature with the reward of being the next king and marrying his daughter. Stefan was one of those people, sadly he was driven by greed. 

Stefan went back to The Moors with the intention of killing Maleficent. He spent a lot of time with her and slipped a concoction into her water so she would fall asleep. He tried to kill her but he couldn't. It was then that Maleficent experienced her first betrayal at the hand of one whom she loved. Since he couldn't bear to kill her. he decided to take her wings instead. When she woke she was devastated. Stefan brought back her wings and became the next king. However, he did not calculate the hatred he would stir up in Maleficent which caused his daughter to be cursed by her. It is here that you would see similarities in the movie and the fairy tale sleeping beauty. Princess Aurora was cursed by Maleficent as a baby that on her sixteenth birthday she would prick her finger on a spinning wheel and fall into a deathlike sleep forever which can only be broken by true love's kiss. Following the fairy tale, Princess Aurora was sent to live outside the palace and in hiding until her sixteenth birthday has passed. Her caretakers were three really clumsy but good hearted fairies. Also along her way she got to know Maleficent who was always by her side watching her with her faithful servant, Diavlo. As Aurora almost turned sixteen, here she met Prince Phillip, also similar to the fairy tale.  

The most unpredictable twist was the true love's kiss which saved Aurora from that horrible fate, instead of the prince kissing her, representing the true love's kiss, instead it was Maleficent that broke the curse which she placed upon the child. This tells us that true love is not only between lovers but it can be between anyone. I believe that true love is when one loves another truly and dearly with unconditional love. It couldn't have been the prince as he had only met her once, and that was probably love at first sight, but then he haven't even gotten to know her. Maleficent instead had known her since she was a baby. Maleficent in all her hatred towards Stefan loved Aurora dearly even though she nicknamed Aurora 'Little Beastie'. haha I find that nickname adorable.




I really really love this Disney Movie! I personally find it really interesting. :D Well, that's all for the review. What's your take on this Disney Movie, Maleficent?

-an excited kid-