(Aug 19, 2016): This was my old review of Maleficent, I made this review back when I used to make a butt load of reviews for this site (2014). Looking back at it now, this was by far the worst review I've ever done during that time. As for my honest opinion on the film itself,I don't like it. My current score for it is a 4/10.
(old review, Nov. 17, 2014): I finally saw it after renting it at Redbox, and all that buzz everyone had talked about, the ads playing so much, and making a lot of money, I was pretty much ready to see it on my Blu-Ray player. All I'm gonna say is this.....it was okay. Not great but good enough for a rental.
The pros:
Angelina Jolie's performance as the titular character, Maleficent (the most well known villain in Disney history) was perfect. She knows on what she's doing, every spoken delivery is spot on, and does feel like she was born to play as a live action version of Maleficent. The effects look great, action scenes were good enough. The tone is fine where it needs to be, and there were some changes from Sleeping Beauty that were okay enough for me. And the other cast were decent for the most part.
Now, the cons:
The biggest problem that I have with it really is just that how mashes with Sleeping Beauty and this one in a not so perfect way. It does kinda distracted me sometimes where they mentioned some stuff here from the 1959 Disney animated film that it supposed to have a twist on. The fairies were annoying. I mean like Jar Jar Binks annoying. Sharlto Copley did kinda felt phoned in here. And that the misleading marketing did kinda ruined the film for me. It was marketed to be like a dark version of Sleeping Beauty, but it's not. Stuff like that did ruined my experience.
Even with those big problems that I have with it, the movie is still entertaining regardless of its flaws. It might not be as good as everyone says it is but I think it's a good rental movie for your day. It might be on Netflix at some day, who knows, you might like it more than I do. And I think that's about it really. It was okay.
6/10
(old review, Nov. 17, 2014): I finally saw it after renting it at Redbox, and all that buzz everyone had talked about, the ads playing so much, and making a lot of money, I was pretty much ready to see it on my Blu-Ray player. All I'm gonna say is this.....it was okay. Not great but good enough for a rental.
The pros:
Angelina Jolie's performance as the titular character, Maleficent (the most well known villain in Disney history) was perfect. She knows on what she's doing, every spoken delivery is spot on, and does feel like she was born to play as a live action version of Maleficent. The effects look great, action scenes were good enough. The tone is fine where it needs to be, and there were some changes from Sleeping Beauty that were okay enough for me. And the other cast were decent for the most part.
Now, the cons:
The biggest problem that I have with it really is just that how mashes with Sleeping Beauty and this one in a not so perfect way. It does kinda distracted me sometimes where they mentioned some stuff here from the 1959 Disney animated film that it supposed to have a twist on. The fairies were annoying. I mean like Jar Jar Binks annoying. Sharlto Copley did kinda felt phoned in here. And that the misleading marketing did kinda ruined the film for me. It was marketed to be like a dark version of Sleeping Beauty, but it's not. Stuff like that did ruined my experience.
Even with those big problems that I have with it, the movie is still entertaining regardless of its flaws. It might not be as good as everyone says it is but I think it's a good rental movie for your day. It might be on Netflix at some day, who knows, you might like it more than I do. And I think that's about it really. It was okay.
6/10