One word comes to mind, when it comes to review this film. Revenge. The whole film featured the entire plot on Revenge. I did however enjoy it to its fullest. The plot was Actually a "Prequel" as I like to call it, to the childhood story The Sleeping Beauty. Actually come to think of it, it was actually in he trailer. But anyways, the film featured an evil witch or fairy known as Maleficent(Jolie). She comes across a young lad Stefan(Copley (Later becomes King)) stealing something. They bond in friendship at the very least. After awhile, he gets "too used" to her if you know what I mean, and so unfortunately for Maleficent, he "steals" her wings. Hearing the cries and obviously painful back of which the wings were attached, went right through me. I feel Oscar worthy. From my understanding, the reason being, he stole the wings was, the Stefan's father the King, King Henry(Cranham) was on his death bed and said to his sons, anyone who kills Maleficent, will be "worthy" to his heir ie will take over his Throne ie becoming King. So hence the reason why Stefan stole the wings. So in revenge, Maleficent finds upon a bird known as Diaval(Riley) who turns into(well turns him into a human) and Maleficent asks Diaval to be "my wings" as hers was taken. So while he is doing his spying on course, he finds out and of course passes on the information to Maleficent, which is that there is to be a Christening or a "baby party" something like that. I joked to my friend beside me, why didn't I get such a celebration. haahah. So anyways, Maleficent in the mean time had found out. So she arrives during the Christening. And casts her spell hence the Chidlhood Tale: Sleeping Beauty. So while Aurora(Fanning) the new baby of King Stefan and his wife Leila was growing up to be of a beautiful girl, Maleficent was rethinking her spell. She even went as far to try and break the spell and reverse it. She had grown bondage to her to the point Aurora thought Maleficent was her "Fairy Godmother". Jolie's reply: "What" was priceless. haahha. We all had a great laugh, through out the movie too. Aurora found out the truth from the 3 fairies (Flittle(Manville), Knotgrass(Stautnon), Thistletwit(Temple) who reared her. SO naturally Aurora ran back to her pappy, namely the King. He hid her in the dungeon for fear of the spell being brought alive. However it is with great regret that she didn't pay heed and actually headed out and the Spell was enforced when she touched the needle. Maleficent felt this and as such was a poignant moment. The 3 fairies brought Aurora back and put her on the bed, where Prince Phillip(whom Aurora met, while he lost his way to King Stefan) was hoped to be the true love to break the spell. He passionately kissed her, but sadly didn't work. So Maleficent, went up and spoke to her while she was sleeping. It was the true love of Maleficent that brought her out of the sleep. That was really heartwarming. So after a battle, all was well and saved.

Overall a highly recommended film.