This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Evil queen tries to steal Beastie from Maleficent, she goes postal and destroys the kingdom. Angelina Jolie returns as one of Disney’s greatest villains. You can unsubscribe at any time. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. In a script whose strokes are so laboured that the numbers start to colour themselves in, its dialogue takes the hardest of the hits. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil finds Jolie back as one of Disney’s greatest villains in a sequel that’s equal parts rom-com and geopolitical drama. Mincing her words into a purposeful pulp, she splits the film’s honours with the film’s most uncredited role: the production design. Aurora, Phillip, Ingrith and other “humans” in the film are otherwise Eurocentric, leaning into a colonialist and imperialist narrative that is maybe a little too easily tied up by the end of the film. As ever with Disney fantasies there's no lack of spectacle on screen, with the costumes, make-up, and locations breathtakingly rich in detail, and should be up for all the major awards. Outside, Maleficent asks Phillip if he truly loves Aurora, and he says he truly does. 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In a script whose strokes are so laboured that the numbers start to colour themselves in, its dialogue takes the hardest of the hits. As Ingrith tries to escape, she is found by Borra and the other fairies. However, whilst the visuals impress, it’s spell-hold is quickly broken. I did enjoy the first movie, but the trailer just did not look all that interesting. Angelina Jolie stars as the powerful, glamorous and conflicted Maleficent in Disney's fourth live-action film of 2019, Our free email newsletter sends you the biggest headlines from news, sport and showbiz. Maleficent goes to save her, and they tumble across the ground. It’s heavy material for a children’s fantasy film to tackle, which makes it unsurprisingly that it doesn’t really manage to do it well. Believe me, when it comes to princely charm, you’ll believe that chipboard cut-outs can talk. Last we saw, the fairy and human kingdoms were peacefully united by Aurora (Elle Fanning), whose lineage from a fairy (god-)mother, Maleficent and a now-deceased human father (Sharlto Copley) bridged the gap. (Based on the title, it should come as no surprise that Phillip and Aurora are zeroes.). for Game of Thrones fans. The political themes are pointed but unwieldy, unlike the rom-com elements of the film, which are superbly done fluff. When Prince Phillip (Harris Dickinson), a pair of cheekbones granted human life, proposes to Aurora, Maleficent is invited to dinner to meet his parents, King John (Robert Lindsay) and Queen Ingrith (Michelle Pfeiffer). Good intentions (or maybe just ambition) don’t smooth over the way that the remnants of the dark fae — Maleficent’s kin, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ed Skrein with horns and wings — are coded to symbolize all people of color and similarly marginalized groups. Mincing her words into a purposeful pulp, she splits the film’s honours with the film’s most uncredited role: the production design. In a film which is so reliant upon magic and yet contains so little of it, Maleficent is another fairytale that has lost its Midas touch. Awww. The first half scene-setting of politics and social oneupmanship may pass over the heads of very little kids, but there’s always something great to look at, and the smaller woodland creatures are distractingly funny and super cute. Pfeiffer doesn’t have any comic material to work with, but commits fully to villainy, serving as a perfect foil to Jolie; her performance is sharp where Jolie’s is smooth, devoting the dangerous energy she had as Catwoman to making declarations of war. Presented with the reality of Aurora (Elle Fanning) and Prince Philip’s (Harris Dickinson) engagement, Maleficent begrudgingly agrees to meet her new laws. The graphics have their own style and whilst it re-treads a familiar fairy-tale path, Maleficent’s wing-born arrival packs a similar punch to that of sister-in-spirit Hela from ‘Thor: Ragnarock‘. When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. The first Maleficent movie wrapped up the revisionist history of one of Disney’s biggest villains, turning Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) into a tragic figure and true love’s kiss into an expression of maternal love. Warning: major spoilers for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil ahead!. With an army of heavily armed henchmen and a scientist in a secret underground laboratory, Ingrith is more akin to a James Bond villain than a medieval queen.

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