Recently went to see the latest Disney
movie Maleficent and well I loved it!
This movie is the retelling of the story of Sleeping Beauty from Maleficent’s point of view and shows the audience her history and back-story and the reasons why she cursed the baby Aurora.
This movie is the retelling of the story of Sleeping Beauty from Maleficent’s point of view and shows the audience her history and back-story and the reasons why she cursed the baby Aurora.
The tale starts off with a young Maleficent
befriending and falling in love with a human boy named Stefan. Stefan is
enticed by power though and eventually betrays her in order to become King so
in return Maleficent places a curse on his baby daughter Aurora. The king gives
Aurora to three
fairies to take care of until her 16th birthday and they take the
child to live in the woods in order to keep her safe.
Through-out her life Maleficent watches the
child grow and finds herself falling in love with her so that by the time it
comes to her 16th birthday she tried to find a way to reverse the
spell. After the true loves kiss the movie ends with a big battle and then
everyone lives happily ever after.
While some of the movie is similar to the
animated version the ending is very different and I thought it was interesting
to know the back story of Maleficent and to know that she really isn’t all that
evil! Overall I thought it was a great movie but perhaps again it’s one of
those that if you aren’t really a big Disney fan you’re not going to love it!
Another movie I watched today was
Tinkerbell and the Pirate fairy. This is about a dust fairy named Zarina who
after being relieved of her duty as a dust fairy goes and joins a team of
pirates as captain of their ship. After a year when Zarina returns and steals
the blue pixie dust Tinkerbell and her closest fairy friends follow her to get
the pixie dust back. Of course there are several battles with pirates, the
fairies get captured, the fairies escape, they get captured again but in the
end everyone lives happily ever after once they defeat the pirates and return
to Pixie Hollow.
Again I thought the movie was good and
particularly like the fact that half way through it dawned on me who the
pirates and crocodile were and how they were linking the Peter Pan and
Tinkerbell movies together!
