Maleficent

Remaking of fairy tale feature films is currently in vogue in Hollywood. One example of this is ”Maleficent”, a film about a fictional character from Walt Disney’s film ”Sleeping Beauty”. The movie is told from Sleeping Beauty’s evil fairy’s point of view. The film premiere was on the 20th of May in 2014 and got a lot of attention on the media all over the world. The film was directed by Robert Stomberg, while Angelina Jolie played her leading role brilliantly as the evil mistress.
Maleficent has collected reviews from side to side, both positive and negative, which is not surprising. Critics have criticized the excessive use of special effects. I do not particularly like fantasy movies so I was skeptical about the film, however, I decided to watch it because my friends recommended it. Before I saw the movie I thought that it would be childish but I was wrong. I think it the film was held together by the special effects and wonderful music and the main actors’ great performance. Angelina Jolie’s diversity repaired the simplicity of the plot. While in the fairy tales the bad guys are often nothing but monsters, Jolie is everything else: exciting, nuanced, genuine, even warm and funny. I’m not the kind of person who gets excited about special effects such as 3D, but I think they really did fit well in the film. Some people think that the story itself was overshadowed by the effects, but I think that the film might have become lame without them. I liked the fact that the movie was high quality and every point had been carefully considered all the way to the end.
Maleficent showed me that prejudices are often incorrect and sometimes it is good to watch movies that are not so serious. Also, it told me the old familiar childhood fairy tale from a different point of view which was bracing and fresh. Maleficent is one of those family feature films that is suitable for every fairy tale fan. The film is a story about all kinds of true love, and teaches that a person rarely is only good or evil. We should remember that every fairy tale has a lot of different versions.