Sleeping Beauty (50th Anniversary Platinum Edition) (1959)

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
A brand new DVD package to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Disney classic Sleeping Beauty. The timeless story tells of Princess Aurora, cursed by the evil sorceress Maleficent to die on her 16th birthday after pricking her finger on a poisoned spinning wheel. Despite being brought up in secret by three good fairies as Briar Rose, the curse comes true. Can her true love, Prince Philip, battle Maleficent and her spells and wake Aurora from her ageless sleep?

DVD Bonus Features

Audio Commentary
Princess Fun Facts
"Once Upon A Dream" Music Video
Disney Song Selection
Picture Perfect: The Making Of Sleeping Beauty
Alternate Opening
4 Deleted Songs
Storyboard Sequences
Live Action Reference
Sleeping Beauty Art Galleries
Sleeping Beauty Castle Walk-Thru Attraction
Publicity
The Peter Tchaikovsky Story
Four Artist Paint One Tree
Briar Roses Enchanted Dance Game
Sleeping Beauty Fun With Language Game

REVIEW
Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty was the studio's most ambitious effort to date, a lavish spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapted from the music of 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 sixteenth birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Fortunately, some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are on hand to assist.

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, alongside Maleficent's castle, which, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. --David Kronke,

Special Features

Bonus Tracks: Emily Osment: 'Once Upon a Dream', Making of Documentary, Sleeping Beauty's Castle Walkthrough, Alternate Opening, Enchanted Dance Game, Deleted Songs, Audio Description English

Actors: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Clyde Geronimi, Mary Costa, Bill Shirley

Audio Languages: English, Dutch

Duration: 72 minutes

Number of Discs: 2

Subtitle Languages: English, English, Dutch, Hindi

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