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Sleeping Beauty (Special Edition)
List Price: $29.99 Our Price:
DVD - 09 September, 2003
Walt Disney Home Video
G (General Audience)
Availability: This item is currently not available.
Director: Clyde Geronimi
Cast: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley
Number of Media: 1
Features: - Animated
- Color
- Closed-captioned
- Widescreen
- Dolby
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| DVD Description Disney's 1959 animated effort was the studio's most ambitious to date, a widescreen spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapting Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked Queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her 16th birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Things almost but not quite turn out that way, thanks to the assistance of some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. It's not really all that much about the title character--how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here. And Malificent's castle, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. --David Kronke |
| Reviews from Customers
One of my favorite movies I saw this movie as a child, and I couldn't remember much about this movie when it came out on DVD. I bought it because it was one of the movies I wanted to get, and I watched it as soon as I got it back home. After watching it, I began remembering things about the movie that I hadn't remembered before I bought it. I have to say that this movie is one of my favorite Disney movies, and it will probably always be one of my favorite Disney movies.
Kids don't watch this anymore..... The fact is that a movie like this is not watched by most kids anymore, they are much more interested in seeing a cartoon where someone's head get's blown off and there is gore flying all over the place...That aside for the moment, this is strictly Disney's take on the story and as such it is slow,tedious, and boring. With a lot of mush music and way over the top soap opera dialoge. IT'S JUST LIKE DAYTIME TV.
Beauty Asleep This is one of my favorite Disney movies of all time. I've just liked it ever since I was really little and am very happy that I have it on DVD.
It's the story of Princess Auora and the three faries. I actually likeMalificent. I think it's because of her colors. There are also some fun extra features for kids like an interactive coloring book and a game to try
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