Sleeping Beauty [Blu-ray]

I honestly never had the urge or enough reason to write a movie review before but for this Masterpiece I alomst feel obliged to explain to the few minority critics that in order to appreciate and enjoy the filmyou should first have an open minded approch of what the filmmakers had in mind when the movie was made.This movie to begin with has a very straight forward story, it was, is and wall always be a love story, and as many of you know love is not always verbally expressed, the viewer could only look at the intricate and mindblowingly animated facial expressions in the famed sequence 8 piece and you will know that not very much verbal interaction isrequired by aurora to understand how beautifully complex her love to phillip is and vice versa, first of all shes been dreaming of him all her life and he was mesmerized by her voice the moment he heard it, its as if their love is subconscious, ethereal and evident since they set their eyes on each other.The second and in my opinion the most important way to appreciate and view the film is that to view it as a ballet (the main source of insperation for walt when he made the movie, people will argue that it was a story first then a ballet in my opinion the ballet fleshed out the characters more than the story which was a very short beautiful simple piece)where the physical interactions and movments of characters come first and then comes the dialouge, many of the characters had a sophisticated gliding animated movment to them, moving in most cases like experienced ballet performers.I know many people will say your going deeper and analyzing so much for a simple children's film, but no that couldn't be further from the truth if you've watched the making of documentry available on the blu ray, just listen to how much time, effort and passion was poured into its production, many of the animators said that they had the luxury of time and money (the studio was almost going to be bankrupt in making it thats how carried away they were with perfecting every aspect of their carft they even painted backgrounds so detailed and large to fit the new 70mm screens, recorded the music in a state of the art facility in Germany, so no cutting corners here) that was never been available to them since, or any one else for that matter to craft a film 100% by hand inking,drawing, cleanup and everthing. To me atleast it will always be the pinnacle and at the forefront of traditional animation mastery even some of the 90s animated backgrounds and characters look amateur to this piece try comparing a few stills side by side and you'll know what I mean.It sometimes sadens me that many dont feel, understand or even appreciate as much in this day and age to fully enjoy these beautiful gems of art where there is undeniably ALOT to love appreciate and admire its not perfect but what masterpice is!!thank you for reading.

Sleeping Beauty is one hour and fifteen minutes and was released in theaters on January 29, 1959. The story is that an evil witch named Maleficent put a curse on King Stefan and Queen Leah infant child named Aurora. The curse was that Aurora would prick her finger on a spindle of a spinning wheel before the sun set on her sixteenth birthday. The three good fairies disguised as mortal take her to a cottage in the woods where she grew up and went by the name Briar Rose. Since this is a Disney movie we now the rest of the story and the happy ending. This was the first Disney movie filmed in 70mm format or what we would call today wide screen. This would be the last Disney movie inked by hand. From 101 Dalmatians on, every animated movie would be were xeroxed onto the cels. On last fact about Sleeping Beauty at the time it was the most expensive movie to make at a cost of six million dollars.My biggest beef about this two DVD set is the overkill of information. In Disc 2 the Games, Music, & Fun is fun for kids but when you the History & Behind the Scene (mostly geared to adults) is too much information. It took me over two hours to go through that whole thing and after watching no more of five minutes of The Peter Tchaikovsky Story I turned the special off. Just see below look below at what you get. I cannot imagine a parent going to her daughter and saying "hey little girlie lets watch all of disk two". The poor girl would wind up committed in a mental sanatorium. Overall Sleeping Beauty (the movie only) is a great family movie and gets an AAAAA+++++.Disc 1Play FilmScene SelectionsAudio CommentarySneak PeeksA. The Lion King Special EditionB. Brother BearC. Finding NemoD. The Santa Clause 2E. Kim Possible: the Secret FilesF. Disney PrincessG. Disney Electronics Princess StyleSet UpA. Spoken Languagesa. English (widescreen)b. English (full screen)c. French (full screen)d. Spanish (full screen)B. Captionsa. English for the Hearing Impairedb. NoneC. THXD. Register Your DVDE. Return to FilmDisc 2Games, Music, & FunA. Disney' Art ProjectB. Rescue Aurora Adventure GameC. Princess Personality Profile GameD. "Once Upon a Dream" Sing - Along SongE. "Once Upon a (Another) Dream" Music Video Performed by no secretsF. Sleeping Beauty Ink & Paint GameHistory & Behind the ScenesA. The Making of Sleeping BeautyB. Storya. The History of the Storyb. The 1951 Outlinec. Storyboard Sequencesi. Seq 15: The Fairies put the Castle to Sleepii. Seq 17: The Capture of the PrinceC. Productiona. The Musicb. The Designc. Creating the Backgroundsd. Live - Action Referencei. Briar Rose Dance Referenceii. Prince Phillip and the Dragon Referenceiii. Photographse. The Restorationf. Widescreen to Pan - and - Scan ComparisonD. Sleeping Beauty Galleriesa. Layouts and Background Galleryb. The Sleeping Beauty Storybook Galleryc. Poster Galleryd. Disneyland Walk through Gallerye. Concept Art Galleryi. Briar Rose/Princess Aurora Galleryii. Maleficent and her Minions Galleryiii. The Three Good Fairies Galleryiv. The Royal Household Galleryv. Miscellaneous Characters GalleryE. Publicitya. Original Teaser Trailerb. Original Theatrical Trailer - 1959c. Trailer - 1995F. Sleeping Beauty Scrapbooka. Behind the Scenesb. Publicityc. Merchandised. Theme ParksG. Four Artists Paint One TreeH. The Peter Tchaikovsky StoryI. Grand CanyonVHS EXTRASPreviewsA. The Little MermaidB. Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted ChristmasC. Old YellerD. Alice in WonderlandE. The Jungle BookF. George of the JungleOnce Upon A Dream: The Making of Sleeping Beauty