I loved the visuals ,even the CGI. Some beautiful shots of Maleficent flying and the magic of the moors. We have fantastic creatures and magical looking castles too. It is a visually beautiful film. Now for the down sides , besides Jolie who steals most of her scenes, the other actors basically phone in their roles, Elle Fanning is a bit too irritatingly sweet in a rather bland portrayal and Sharlto Copley is no more than a grunting bore. The trivia indicates that actors were hired based on the fact they looked like their characters ,Really? Seriously . I didn't think anyone looked like their characters except Jolie and maybe Fanning but that's so stupid , how about seeing if any of these so called lookalikes could act first? That's why God created makeup artists so you could hire actual actors who can act and then change them to look like their characters,
And let's not forgot the major changes to the story and the fact some characters names are changed too like the three fairies. Supposedly based on Maleficents point of view , the story goes off on it's own and basically throws out almost everything from the 1950's Sleeping Beauty story. Sure she eventually turns bad , the best scene of course is the curse scene but that is even changed and the end result is not at all what you'd expect. Maleficent loses her cruel evil tones and becomes a somewhat nanny to Aurora and then I was like what in the world are they doing ? That's where it ruins the story, as it is like saying Sleeping Beauty was not the true story , this one is so ignore what you know . The narrator at the end of the movie ends up being Aurora whom I have to suspect sat down with Maleficent one day to pen her autobiography since she wasn't even born when the first half of the story takes place. A shame they had to do that do a classic , Jolie could have really owned this role if they had stuck to what Maleficent was about truly. Instead we are left with disappointment at what could have been,
And let's not forgot the major changes to the story and the fact some characters names are changed too like the three fairies. Supposedly based on Maleficents point of view , the story goes off on it's own and basically throws out almost everything from the 1950's Sleeping Beauty story. Sure she eventually turns bad , the best scene of course is the curse scene but that is even changed and the end result is not at all what you'd expect. Maleficent loses her cruel evil tones and becomes a somewhat nanny to Aurora and then I was like what in the world are they doing ? That's where it ruins the story, as it is like saying Sleeping Beauty was not the true story , this one is so ignore what you know . The narrator at the end of the movie ends up being Aurora whom I have to suspect sat down with Maleficent one day to pen her autobiography since she wasn't even born when the first half of the story takes place. A shame they had to do that do a classic , Jolie could have really owned this role if they had stuck to what Maleficent was about truly. Instead we are left with disappointment at what could have been,