TheRetroCritic

Another year, another blockbuster live-action fairy-tale movie. With Disney kicking things off with Alice In Wonderland some years ago, we've since seen two Snow White movies go by and Oz: The Great and Powerful . Mixed reviews-aside, the films made big bucks so a Sleeping Beauty  live-action movie was a no-brainer for Disney. The casting of Angelina Jolie as the famously sinister Maleficent felt right and the trailers looked promisingly dark and moody. Focusing on a villain for once, this seemed to be taking a different, interesting path with the genre and the familiar story. Sort of how Wicked took The Wizard Of Oz and did its own thing. We follow the Sleeping Beauty story through Maleficent's character arc and what should have been the epic birth of one of Disney's most iconic, frightening villains somehow becomes... Not that. Nowhere near that, in fact. Did you know that Maleficent had wings and a boyfriend and was totally cool despite... being called &q