{"id":143270,"date":"2014-05-30T14:25:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T21:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=143270"},"modified":"2014-05-30T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T21:25:49","slug":"maleficent-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2014\/05\/30\/maleficent-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Maleficent Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title: Maleficent<\/p>\n

Directed By: Robert Stromberg<\/p>\n

Starring: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton Thwaites<\/B><\/p>\n

Angelina Jolie playing Maleficent has loads of potential, but that alone can\u2019t support a movie.<\/p>\n

This is \u201cSleeping Beauty\u201d from Maleficent\u2019s perspective. As a young fairy living in The Moors, Maleficent meets a human boy named Stefan (Sharlto Copley). As they get older, they remain friends until Stefan decides he\u2019s really a power-hungry wannabe king and betrays Maleficent in exchange for the crown. When Stefan\u2019s daughter Aurora (Elle Fanning) is born, Maleficent retaliates by putting a curse on the newborn, one that will have her slip into a deep sleep on her 16th birthday.<\/p>\n

However, the story is secondary because prime importance is placed on the fact that Jolie dressing up as a Disney villain will draw a crowd. Minus the light 97-minute running time, there isn\u2019t a single redeeming quality to \u201cMaleficent.\u201d It\u2019s a harsh assessment, but when you\u2019ve got such a talented visual effects artist at the helm, iconic source material, an all-star cast and a hefty studio-sized budget to back it all up, there\u2019s just no excuse to deliver such a lazy film.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no world building at all. Instead, the screenwriters take a shortcut and open \u201cMaleficent\u201d with an extensive voiceover that essentially says, this is the way things are and that\u2019s that. When you\u2019re trying to sell a realm that involves fairies, magical creatures and spells, you can\u2019t just state the facts and leave it at that. You have to earn them and make the audience believe, and \u201cMaleficent\u201d never does that. This isn\u2019t an immersive experience. It\u2019s a bunch of famous faces playing dress up while a VFX team shows off a CG creature reel.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaleficent\u201d is also ridden with logic issues and plot holes. Maleficent wants to find love, but her way of going about it is downright absurd and also quite pathetic. You know what you do when a boy breaks your heart? You cry it out for a bit and then find someone else. You don\u2019t waste your existence trying to get back at him, especially when he\u2019s become such a terrible person anyway. Stefan goes from a sweet, loving little boy to a man who\u2019ll give up everything to become king. How are we supposed to buy that when nothing triggers it?<\/p>\n

The moment Stefan turns cold, that\u2019s it; there\u2019s nothing more to him. Copley merely trudges around with an exhausting looking scowl on his face proclaiming his determination to eradicate Maleficent. Not once do we ever see him express a single ounce of affection towards his own daughter, so when Maleficent places the curse upon Aurora, there\u2019s no reason to care. It\u2019s also almost as if that moment is there just because it\u2019s a pivotal element of the source material. In this rendition, getting back at Stefan by placing a curse on his infant daughter which won\u2019t even go into effect for another 16 years comes across as an absolutely moronic tactic.<\/p>\n

And the way Stefan strikes back is even more ludicrous. Rather than spend every waking moment with his daughter or protecting her himself, he sends her into the forest with three imbecile fairies that he just met who don\u2019t even know how to feed a child. On top of that, Maleficent knows where this oh-so secret and safe hideout is. The moment the gang moves into their new home, there\u2019s Maleficent lurking in the trees and, inexplicably, fixing the fairies\u2019 mistakes and taking care of her sworn enemy herself. <\/p>\n

There is a small handful of mildly successful moments in the material that follows. A stronger and more logical foundation should have made this the heart of the movie, but there is something somewhat endearing about the growing relationship between Maleficent and Aurora. The trouble is, without those layers, it\u2019s just a repetition of the same story beat over and over again. Aurora is happy and curious, Maleficent marvels at her, and that\u2019s basically all there is to it.<\/p>\n

The sole character in this entire film who has some depth is Sam Riley\u2019s Diaval. Originally Diaval is a bird, and when Maleficent saves him after he\u2019s trapped in a net, she opts to also turn him into a man\/bird, servant\/sidekick. There\u2019s really no logical reason for Diaval to be both a man and a bird because Maleficent only professes her need for wings and not a handsome friend, but that\u2019s easy to overlook because Riley turns him into such a dashing character with integrity and principles he\u2019s willing to fight for, a fundamental component every other character lacks.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also largely responsible for some of the film\u2019s funnier moments \u2013 the intentionally funny ones at least. A major reason \u201cMaleficent\u201d is such a bore and the plot is so ridiculous is because everything is taken so seriously. A little self-deprecation, however, does the movie good. We get quite a bit of that from Diaval because he\u2019s the realist of the bunch, but Jolie delivers a few highlights herself, too. For example, when Brenton Thwaites\u2019 oh-so-typical prince charming rides up and declares, \u201cI\u2019m looking for a girl,\u201d and Jolie replies with a deadpan, \u201cOf course you are,\u201d it\u2019s fun and it works.<\/p>\n

Aurora\u2019s wannabe protectors, on the other hand, are just too goofy and over-the-top. Flittle (Lesley Manville), Knotgrass (Imelda Staunton) and Thistletwit (Juno Temple) are plain old dumb and it\u2019s incredibly frustrating. Bumbling characters with noble intentions are one thing, but not only are these three completely incompetent, but their motives are never established. Why did they go from The Moors to King Stefan? Are they traitors? Do they really care about Aurora\u2019s wellbeing or is Stefan paying them to take care of her? They do profess their love for their adoptive daughter every now and then, but, more often than not, they\u2019re complaining that their babysitting duties stop them from doing what they really want, living in The Moors in fairy form.<\/p>\n

And that opens the door to yet another issue for \u201cMaleficent,\u201d and a surprising one at that; the CG and 3D aren\u2019t good, and the fairies are the worst of all. In human form, they\u2019re just Manville, Staunton and Temple wearing big dresses and crazy wigs. When they\u2019re tiny fairies flying around, they\u2019re all digital but the VFX team gave them the actresses\u2019 faces and the result is incredibly disconcerting and borderline nightmarish. The authentic human features don\u2019t meld well with the cartoonish qualities at all, and that\u2019s the case with the large majority of The Moors.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard not to wonder why Maleficent is the only human-looking thing in this magical realm because of course Jolie will stick out amongst a horde of digital creatures. There\u2019s no in-between; just the two extremes. And even worse, the movie doesn\u2019t do all that much with the creatures in this world either. When a heartbroken Maleficent gets pissed and turns their vibrant habitat into a murky nightmare, no one revolts. They just stay there and deal with it, quite similar to how an inanimate prop would react to such a situation.<\/p>\n

What makes \u201cMaleficent\u201d such a devastating failure is the fact that it had so much potential. Angelina Jolie playing Maleficent is pure gold, but you can\u2019t rely on that. Rather than do what was intended, retell the Sleeping Beauty story from Maleficent\u2019s perspective and shed new light on the iconic villain in the process, it\u2019s as though Jolie and her costume were expected to do it all alone. There\u2019s no meaty discussions in this movie; just quick declarations. There are very few genuine relationships, primarily ones that exist just because the voiceover and source material deem them so. And there\u2019s also a minimal amount of stunning visuals. It\u2019s almost as if the imagery was designed to churn our prime film stills and nothing more.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard not to go on and on, but in an effort to keep this review from turning into a mile-long rant, let\u2019s switch to a more concise format. There are some spoilers<\/font><\/b> in the questions below, so it\u2019d be best to see the movie before reading on \u2013 although clearly I\u2019m not recommending it. If you dare, here\u2019s a list of shattering script and production issues that desperately needed to be resolved. If you\u2019ve got a logical answer to any of the below, I\u2019d truly like to know.<\/p>\n

– What was the point of trying to trick us with the voiceover? Was that supposed to come with a satisfying payoff?
\n– Why is Maleficent the only human-looking fairy in The Moors? Is she half human, half fairy?
\n– What happened to her parents? Were they killed by humans?
\n– Why does young Maleficent have a face caked full of makeup?
\n– Why did Stefan go from sweet little boy to power-hungry wing-cutter?
\n– If Maleficent could conjure just about anything, why not just whip up a new set of wings?
\n– If she could enter the castle so easily, why not steal her wings back instead of putting the curse on Aurora and dragging this out?
\n– Was Maleficent cooking up that unnecessarily convoluted curse for a while or did it just come to her on the spot?
\n– Why would Stefan hand his newborn daughter over to those stupid fairies? Why not protect her in the castle?
\n– Are the fairies traitors? Do they genuinely want to save Aurora?
\n– Why hide her in a cottage in the forest? Maleficent clearly knows where it is.
\n– Why would Maleficent curse Aurora only to protect\/stalk her?
\n– Where is Stefan\u2019s kingdom? A castle is not a kingdom.
\n– Did Stefan have any subjects or just soldiers?
\n– Why can\u2019t Prince Phillip find the castle? Is he blind?
\n– I thought iron was Maleficent\u2019s kryptonite? Does she have healing powers?
\n– Was that cat suit under Maleficent\u2019s dress the whole time?
\n– Did Stefan even care about Aurora or was this all about sticking it to Maleficent?
\n– So Prince Phillip isn\u2019t Aurora\u2019s one true love then, right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Technical: C-<\/p>\n

Acting: B<\/p>\n

Story: D<\/p>\n

Overall: D+<\/B><\/p>\n

By Perri Nemiroff<\/a><\/p>\n

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