Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

JohnHowardReid Copyright 1959 by Walt Disney Productions. New York opening at the Criterion: 17 February 1959. U.S. release through Buena Vista: March 1959. U.K. release through Walt Disney: 7 August 1959. Australian release through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: 24 December 1959. 75 minutes.SYNOPSIS: There is much rejoicing in the kingdom for a daughter is born to King Stefan and his queen. Both Stefan and visiting King Hubert, the ruler of a neighboring country, have long wished to unite their lands by the marriage of their children. On this occasion they announce the betrothal of young Prince Phillip to the infant Princess Aurora. Outside the castle, knights and their ladies, townspeople and peasants, in a joyous processional. While the nobility are celebrating within the great hall, a shaft of light suddenly appears and floating down it come the tiny figures of three good fairies, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. Waving their magic wands they bestow on the baby their favors: Flora, the gift of beauty; Fauna, the gift of song, but before Merryweather can bestow the gift of happiness, Maleficent, the evil witch, appears in a blinding flash of lightning. Angered at not being invited to the festivities she prophesies that before the sun sets on Aurora's sixteenth birthday she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. NOTES: "Sleeping Beauty", Walt Disney's $6,000,000 animated production in Technicolor and Technirama, is dormant in title only. Six years of sustained effort went into it. For Disney, who liked to tackle the impossible and usually achieved it, this cartoon feature was his most challenging. "Hundreds of our top artists and craftsmen were involved in the picture" Disney declared at the time. "It took a million drawings to bring 'Sleeping Beauty' to life on the screen." The big screen imposed tremendous added labors on the artists. They had to move their characters in larger fields of action. They had to create different color schemes and a new landscape for the classic tale. The mathematical calculations became much more intricate. Every phase of artistry and mechanics which together comprise the art of animation, the art of drawing in motion, had to be revamped. "In fact, the most difficult barrier for the artists was to keep them from covering old ground used in former cartoon classics — to keep their concepts fresh and talents sharp." Directing animator Marc Davis handled both Sleeping Beauty herself (otherwise known as both Princess Aurora and Briar Rose) and Maleficent. Helene Stanley was the live model for Beauty, whilst Jane Fowler posed for Maleficent and Ed Kemmer for the Prince.Filmed in Technirama 70mm, "Sleeping Beauty" was printed and projected anamorphically at an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. Initial worldwide film rentals gross returned only $5.3 million, a long way short of recouping the movie's $6 million negative cost, plus print, advertising and distribution overheads.COMMENT: This Disney DVD rates 10/10. The wide anamorphic screen is always full of movement. Absolutely chock-a-block. Never has the wide-wide screen been used so effectively — in either an animated or a live action film. Disney artistry at its super best, "Sleeping Beauty" is an entertainment masterpiece.

Realrockerhalloween Sleeping beauty is a wonderful fairytale about a girl who is cursed at birth to prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die on her sixteenth birthday until It can be broken by true live's first kiss. Three fairies take her into their cottage deep within the woods to protect her from Maleficent's evil plan. The historical details never forgotten even with magic and mystical elements making it feel like a true story once upon a time.It's perfectly made from the beautiful animation, the villain is top notch and the songs are masterfully composed. The characters all have unique personalities that it's hard to choose a favorite from Maleficent the deliciously evil sorcerer to the three fairies and their playful antics and gallant prince Philip full of strength and might. The song I dreamt of you once upon a dream complements and bookends it like poetry.What makes it truly exceptional is the loving care put into every detail from with the waving of the leaves to the waving of feathers and wrinkling of noses grounding it in realism. The only leap of faith in logic found is how are clothes created or stitched unless the Fairies lead a helping hand.Walt Disney created an enchanting story that draws you in from the beginning and sweeps you away into its magnificent world.10/10

Filipe Neto This film is the adaptation to animation film of the folk tale "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Directed by Clyde Geronimi, has a script by Erdman Penner and the voices of Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley and other voice actors.The story needs no introduction, as well as any comment to the script, which is basically a reproduction of the tale. Its one of the stories that accompanied the childhood of everyone, and that everyone learned and love. And there was no better way to immortalize it than let Disney do this film, with all the magic usually employed in his works. The dubbing work was very well done and the voices are excellent, the drawings were exquisitely made, the traditional way, as was done before the beginning of digital technologies. The soundtrack, from George Burns, earned the nomination for the Oscar and is excellent in every way, helping to make this film one of the most striking and romantic of Disney's career, and one of the most classic among the several classics that this film studio gave to the world cinema.Timeless, immortal like the story it portrays, this film will continue to be seen and ired for generations, regardless of age, culture or language.

William O. Tyler There are some classic movies that you get to know so well, that eventually you think you can just put it on as background noise while you do other stuff, but if you happen to look up at the screen for one moment, you are completely captivated and kept from looking away until the credits have rolled. Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty is one of those movies. This animated production is that rare, perfect alignment of masters of their crafts, like Marc Davis, directing animator of both the film's protagonist and antagonist, and painter Eyvind Earle who served here as production designer, among many other artists, that creates something wonderfully unlike anything else. When it was decided to do Sleeping Beauty, the company knew they would have to push the artistry further than they ever had before to purposefully make the film stand out from everything that had ever come before it. The story's medieval setting perfectly caters to this with Gothic architecture, patterned tapestries, sculpted box trees and other hyper detailed background elements. To match, Disney ditched the soft and round and inviting characters that they usually portray for character designs that are more jagged and angular, strong with deep straight and vertical lines. The detail of the film really is just staggering. Add to that the fact that this was all done in Super Technirama 70 means not only more detailed art, but physically larger portions of art needed to be created to fill the film's frame, and every single frame from this film could be a framed painting hanging in a museum all on its own.Just as your eyes finally settle from all the detail and you think the movie couldn't be any more perfect, it happens. A blustery wind and a flash of lightening introduces you to the most iconic villain in all of the Disney stable. If anyone can crash a party and completely steal a show, it is Maleficent, which is a feat from a character with very little action. She's a speech giver, which means her captivation comes completely from her design, her slight movements, her voice, and her overall demanding presence. She can stand completely still and yet you will never lose her within the intricacies of the settings around her because you will never even take your eyes off of her. A spell has truly been cast, and while our princess has the least amount of lines for any human title character in a Disney animated movie, Maleficent more than fills the stage, making the movie really all about her.Other characters, like the film's hero Prince Phillip, are also more well rounded than the archetype had been in previous Disney films, and he would have to be to even enter into such a dark and threatening climatic battle. This Dark Ages atmosphere of Sleeping Beauty is spurned on by its classical score, a brilliant arrangement by George Bruns of the original music from the Sleeping Beauty ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The idea to take this well known music and reset it to the events of the movie adds weight and seriousness, as well as an heir of familiarity. It also does well to heighten certain moments in the film to truly chilling and mesmerizing states.It's a wonder that the film was a failure upon its initial release. The increase to its art and production meant that it was also Disney's most expensive animated film to date, and unfortunately could not make its money back at the box office, resulting in quite a change in style at the studio. The company's next release would be the scratchily designed 101 Dalmatians, with Sleeping Beauty ending the era of the lush and overly romantic Disney animated film. It has since gained both its money back and popularity, though, considered by many to be one of Disney's crowning achievements. As for me, I am perfectly comfortable in going further than that to call Sleeping Beauty the best animated film of all time.