Chris Knight: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil has many winged characters, but still fails to take flight

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Chris Knight reviews the sequel to Disney’s 2014 retelling of the story of Sleeping Beauty

You’ve come a long way, Disney. When Sleeping Beauty first slumbered onto screens 60 years ago, she had to be awakened by a kiss from a guy she barely knew. In Maleficent, the woke retelling – I can say woke because it was 2014 – Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora had her narcoleptic curse lifted by the even truer love of a maternal kiss. The final scene showed her and the charming Prince Philip making eyes at one another.

Similarly underwhelmed is Philip’s mom, played with imperial glee by Michelle Pfeiffer. In fact, she quickly concocts a plan to use the wedding ceremony as a trap for Maleficent and her fairy-folk friends. Her ruse is so transparent, it’s a wonder she didn’t register the bride and groom at Bed, Broadswords and Beyond.Kidding aside, Mistress of Evil spins a rather complicated geopolitical tale for a PG-rated fantasy.

What’s most fascinating here is the way director Joachim Rønning , working from a screenplay by returning writer Linda Woolverton, makes it clear that war becomes almost inevitable if even one of the potential parties wants it; mutual mistrust and self-defence take care of the rest.

 

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