Sleeping Beauty (2-Disc Animated Blu-ray) * New *

Sleeping Beauty (2-Disc Animated Blu-ray) * New *

*** Region B *** Works in Australian, NZ, UK, Euro Players and PS3's Only ***

Brand New and Sealed

Remastered Platinum Edition

Actors:          Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy

Director:        Clyde Geronimi

Format:         Blu-ray, Anamorphic, Colour, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled

Language:    English (Dolby Digital 6.1 EX), French, Spanish

Subtitles:      English

Region:         Free

Aspect:          2.55:1

Discs:            2

Origin:           UK

Rating:          G (General Audience)

Studio:          Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Run Time:    75 minutes

Features:

Ø  In the original story, Princess Aurora sleeps for 100 years before being awakened by a prince's kiss. In the Disney version, Prince Philip comes to her rescue much sooner

Ø  George Brun's orchestral score, which was nominated for an Academy Award, expertly blended famous themes from Tchaikovsky's ballet.

Ø  With a budget that exceeded $6 million in 1959, this was Walt Disney's most lavish and expensive animated feature to date.

Ø  Determined to make the characters as realistic as possible, Disney had a live action film shot with actors posing as Sleeping Beauty, the Prince, and Maleficent, for the animators to use.

Ø  New York Times critic Bosley Crowther called the fight between Prince Philip and Maleficent the noisiest and scariest go-round he (Disney) has ever put into one of his films.

Ø  Live Menus Featuring A Real Time Castle Environment

Ø  All-New Making Of SLEEPING BEAUTY Featurette

Ø  Deleted Songs

Ø  DISNEY BD LIVE innovative features premiering on Sleeping Beauty include Chat and Create Custom Video Messages

Disney's 1959 animated effort was the studio's most ambitious to date, a widescreen spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapting Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked Queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her 16th birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Things almost but not quite turn out that way, thanks to the assistance of some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. It's not really all that much about the title character--how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here. And Malificent's castle, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. --David Kronke

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