Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty was my all time favorite Disney film. I was so in love with this story, it's crazy how many times I wore out the VHS. But growing up, I lost touch with the story, but I recently bought the Blu-Ray and re-watched the film and you know what? I'm still in love with this movie. I really miss these old Disney movies where the animation was so bright and beautiful, the characters were so lovable, and the story was so magical. I'm not bashing Disney films from today, just I'm sure we could all relate on this subject where the older Disney films just had a certain charm about it. Sleeping Beauty is just a timeless story and has so much wonderful romance, I guess since I'm a girl, I just couldn't help but still be in love with this beautiful story.Princess Aurora is born and is the future queen of her land, three fairy's, Flora, Merryweather, and Fauna bless her with three gifts: beauty and song, right as Merryweather is about to bless Aurora, the evil witch, Maleficent, comes in and curses Aurora that she shall touch a spinning wheel by her 16th birthday and die! Merryweather changes it to where she won't die, but sleep and could only be woke up by the kiss of true love. The fairy's wish to keep this from happening still, so they take Aurora and raise her as their own. One day Aurora on her 16th birthday goes out in the forest and meets the charming and handsome Prince Phillipe, but she doesn't know he's a prince and she doesn't know he's fhe man she's actually betrothed too. She is told by the fairy's that she can never see him again and that she's a princess; later that night the curse happens! Now the fairy's need Phillipe to save Aurora before it's too late.Everything about Sleeping Beauty is just a perfect Disney film and I can't wait until to show this to my future kids one day. I know that their generation is going to have just the CGI animation, so it's good that at least we still have these films, they're treasures. The voices, the animation, the story, Sleeping Beauty is the most romantic fairy tale that anyone could easily fall in love with. If you are a Disney fan, this is a must see, it's a great family film or if you're just a film buff in general, I'm a grown up and I still tear up when I watch Sleeping Beauty.

I honestly never had the urge or enough reason to write a movie review before but for this Masterpiece I alomst feel obliged to explain to the few minority critics that in order to appreciate and enjoy the filmyou should first have an open minded approch of what the filmmakers had in mind when the movie was made.This movie to begin with has a very straight forward story, it was, is and wall always be a love story, and as many of you know love is not always verbally expressed, the viewer could only look at the intricate and mindblowingly animated facial expressions in the famed sequence 8 piece and you will know that not very much verbal interaction isrequired by aurora to understand how beautifully complex her love to phillip is and vice versa, first of all shes been dreaming of him all her life and he was mesmerized by her voice the moment he heard it, its as if their love is subconscious, ethereal and evident since they set their eyes on each other.The second and in my opinion the most important way to appreciate and view the film is that to view it as a ballet (the main source of insperation for walt when he made the movie, people will argue that it was a story first then a ballet in my opinion the ballet fleshed out the characters more than the story which was a very short beautiful simple piece)where the physical interactions and movments of characters come first and then comes the dialouge, many of the characters had a sophisticated gliding animated movment to them, moving in most cases like experienced ballet performers.I know many people will say your going deeper and analyzing so much for a simple children's film, but no that couldn't be further from the truth if you've watched the making of documentry available on the blu ray, just listen to how much time, effort and passion was poured into its production, many of the animators said that they had the luxury of time and money (the studio was almost going to be bankrupt in making it thats how carried away they were with perfecting every aspect of their carft they even painted backgrounds so detailed and large to fit the new 70mm screens, recorded the music in a state of the art facility in Germany, so no cutting corners here) that was never been available to them since, or any one else for that matter to craft a film 100% by hand inking,drawing, cleanup and everthing. To me atleast it will always be the pinnacle and at the forefront of traditional animation mastery even some of the 90s animated backgrounds and characters look amateur to this piece try comparing a few stills side by side and you'll know what I mean.It sometimes sadens me that many dont feel, understand or even appreciate as much in this day and age to fully enjoy these beautiful gems of art where there is undeniably ALOT to love appreciate and admire its not perfect but what masterpice is!!thank you for reading.