(55%) Without doubt a mixed bag. The opening 10 or so minutes are far too sweet and kid friendly for my taste, but the real fly in the soup is the fact that Maleficent herself is at no point actually evil in the slightest. She is for the most part slightly bitter, much more so than out-and-out evil, or even bad, and as there's no real arc to her character the movie feels a little hollow and somewhat lacking. Jolie though is pretty fantastic and the movie splutters whenever she's off screen, but the 3 annoying fairy characters are given far too much attention that they really don't warrant in the slightest deducting from some good, exciting scenes. Overall If it had more bite, and the script was polished to a higher degree then this could have been a classic in waiting, but sadly not.
Review of Maleficent
