I really like this movie ,althought the story is cliche.the soundtrack really help to enter in the story;when is a tragic scene
you can feel it,when is a terrifing one(like the fight between prince philip and maleficent)to.The movie is to short ,I personally think you dont have enought time to know the main characters!Ireally like the scene when aurora touch the wheel the music in that moment is terryfing!Sleeping beauty is a must seen movie!

This film is another Disney Masterpiece,I really enjoyed it. I've always love fairy tales; even as an adult (I am 21 years old) I still love them, and "Sleeping Beauty" is one of my favorite fairy tales from Charles Perrault, along with "Cinderella" and "Puss n' Boots."

I'd love the scenery,it's like stepping through a magic tapestry and going back in time to the Middle Ages; I'd also love the color-styling of Eyvind Earle, and THIS film was the reason Eyvind Earle became one of my favorite artists. This film has an excellant soundtrack with additional music from Peter Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty" ballet, and if there's one I love in a movie is a very,VERY good soundtrack.This film has a top-notch voice acting like :

·Mary Costa ... Princess Aurora/Briar Rose
·Bill Shirley ... Prince Phillip
·Eleanor Audley ... Maleficent
·Barbara Luddy ... Merryweather (The Blue Fairy) and...
·Bill Thompson ... King Hubert (Philip's Dad)

So watching this movie is definitly worth watching; so I give Sleeping Beauty two BIG thumbs up!

I enjoyed this movie. I just recently re-watched the re-mastered version, and it looks really nice. The colors are crisp and bright, and the soundtrack has been touched up so that some of the "noise" has been cut out. Anyways, back to the movie, I think the animation on this one is slightly different from the style Disney had been using up to this point. Just the way the characters are drawn and colored seems a little different, but maybe that's just me.
I'd have to say my favorite characters are the three fairies. They make the movie. The princess is, for the most part, your typical princess. Philip, the prince, is fairly enjoyable too (so is his horse :P), and unlike many Disney movies, they actually focus on him somewhat. Instead of just having Prince Charming come out of nowhere, kiss Aurora, and they lived happily ever after even though they don't even know each other. In this movie the two meet before Aurora falls under Malificent's spell. Overall I think this is a fairly well done movie. Not Disney's greatest, but it is one of their better ones. I'd recommend it any day. :)

I think 'Sleeping Beauty' is a considerable disappointment after the wonderful 'Peter Pan' and 'Lady and the Tramp'. Released in 1959 it is generally regarded as the end of Disney's second classic period. From here on, Disney would see budget and staff cuts for the next few decades, and even as early as this, it shows.

Compared with the preceding two features the background drawings are cartoony rather than sumptuous, which isn't nescessarily a bad thing, but here it doesn't really work. There are some rather jarring 'special effects' early in the film, and the style of the movie, whereas it earns points for experimentation, just looks rather cheap compared with what Disney had done through most of the 1950's. And then there are the characters. To describe Aurora and Phillip as 2-dimensional would be flattering. Phillip's horse has more personality than he does, and he's virtually useless to boot. He even needs the three Good Fairies to get his cape untangled from some thorns for Heaven's sake. Added to the above, the whole thing just seems old-fashioned even compared with the movies Disney had been making over most of the previous ten years. In fact when I was a kid, I used to get this movie confused with 'Snow White'.

Ok, that's the bad. On the plus side, the three Good Fairies are delightful characters - in fact without them the film would have been pretty dull in my view. They SEEM like they ought to be comic sidekicks, but for all intents and purposes they're the main characters. Compared with them the hero and heorine are cardboard cutouts who get very little screen time. Maleficent is a good, if not particularly unusual villain. The quality of the actual animation is very good. The general storytellling is pleasingly paced, and despite the fact that it comes across as a step down in almost every department, the movie still works pretty well simply because it was a step backwards from such a lofty height.

I tossed up between two and a half and three stars for this one. I eventually decided it was closer to three, but really I just don't find this a tremendously engaging film, either by modern standards, or the standards of Disneys own classics.

Though it's a bit contrary to conventional wisdom, I think the next feature, '101 Dalmatians' was an improvement (despite the budget cuts), but after that it would be a long time before many people other than their advertising department used the words 'Disney' and 'Classic' together.

Not a bad movie, but if you're exploring the Disney back-catalogue, don't start here unless you've just got a thing for fairy-tale 'Princess' films. It might still get 3 stars, but nearly everything they'd done up to this point was better.

Sleeping Beauty is my favorite Disney princess movie. First of all it is one with a truly evil villan! I always felt that the other villans had a nice side to them. Malificent was truly evil and gave a great action sequence during the ending. Prince Phillip was another character that was different from all the other princes. He actually fought for his princess! But just watching the movie can tell you that it is definitly worth watching more than once. I give Sleeping Beauty two thumbs up!

Disney's tradition in crafting strong lead females continues. Aurora feels more like a normal girl when compared with Cinderella's super-human spirit. Perhaps it is her flaws and grounded nature that make her more attractive and real than Cinderella. Here, too, the prince has more depth and character. At least his and Aurora's relationship feels like it has some meaning and reality, unlike Disney's other fairy tales. And the whole identity mixup subplot is always very amusing. The three good fairies are very colorful and often hilarious. I especially love their little "red/blue" battles. The animation and special effects are exquisite, fully utilizing the movie's epic 70mm scope. However, when compared with the vibrant worlds of Cinderella and especially Lady and the Tramp(which also was from the 50s), the hard edged look of the characters and comic book palette of Sleeping Beauty seem like a jarring step backwards. But this is a minor quibble. And while Sleeping Beauty doesn't have as many stand out songs as Cinderella, "Once Upon A Dream" is still one of the most memorable songs ever.

So why the half star dock when compared with Cinderella's perfect score? Maleficent is one of Disney's most powerful and forceful villains, to be sure. She just exudes majesty and evil. But something about her scenes seem rather dry. Her spooky scene where she entices Aurora towards the spinning wheel is a sure fire winner, but the rest feel empty. I'm still confused as to why she wanted to capture Phillip and keep him locked up. And it seemed like Phillip couldn't do much of anything without the help of the fairies magic. Maleficent has this evil empire stowed away in some corner of the world. But instead of trying to take over the world, she wants to kill a princess?

But don't be dismayed. Sleeping Beauty is still a finely wrought film that's equal parts drama, romance, and clever humor. And the fight scene where Maleficent transforms into a dragon is still one of the most beautifully animated and utterly terrifying moments ever.