Joe RinaldiBesprekingen

Acting (Voice): 4.5; Theme: 4.5; Content: 4.5; Language: 5.0; Overall: 4.5

After the birth of King Stefan (Taylor Holmes) and Queen Leah's (Verna Felton) young beautiful daughter, Aurora (Mary Costa), an evil fairy (Maleficent; Eleanor Audley) steps in to curse the young princess. Aurora is pricked by the spindle on a spinning wheel on her sixteenth birthday and now must receive a true love kiss or remain asleep forever. Highly recommend.

***March 28, 2023***½

After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.

A dog feels unloved by its humans.

Meh. It's cute enough to make me smile or chuckle in places. Bad storytelling, though. And it must hold a record for the highest percentage of characters that are ethnic stereotypes. So damn lazy.

Concept: D
Story: D
Characters: C
Dialog: D
Pacing: C
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: B
Acting: B
Music: C

Enjoyment: C plus

GPA: 1.9/4

A princess is cursed by an evil sorceress.

Well, that was a huge surprise. I'd thought that by this point Disney had long since given up on the artistic angle and moved on to a more "kid friendly" humor-based appeal. Wrongity wrong wrong. One of the best movies visually, ever - right up there with The Third Man. I'm looking forward to re-watching 101 Dalmations (the next Disney movie chronologically) to see if it's anything like this. (But my hopes aren't high.)

Concept: D
Story: B
Characters: C
Dialog: C
Pacing: B
Cinematography: A
Special effects/design: A
Acting: C
Music: A

Enjoyment: A

GPA: 2.9/4½

A toad is arrested for car theft, and a schoolteacher hits on a pretty rich girl.

The Mr. Toad section would be bad, except the title character's animators make him entertaining to watch. The Ichabod section is much too long and aimless, but it does have a strangely interesting sense of style. There's no reason at all for the two sections to be part of the same film; Toad probably should have been a feature, and Ichabod a short.

Concept: B
Story: D
Characters: D
Dialog: C
Pacing: D
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: A
Acting: B
Music: C

Enjoyment: C minus

GPA: 2.2/4