Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

David McPhail The acting,taking into account the script was terrible, was not bad for what they were given. It's a difficult one to sit through given the pace of this movie was painfully slow, the music about as lively as a funeral dirge, and special effects created by someone not familiar with computer animation. The rising of the dead from their graves was truly laughable as the bodies were immediately visible when they moved their arms. It must have been too hard to dig a more realistic looking graveyard. It's hard to imagine that this movie is duller than Sophie's Choice - a 3+ hour torture fest. This movie should be placed in an archive somewhere and forgotten. Better still, just destroy all copies of it and forget that it ever existed. I believe that it's a very bad sign when the stars are part if one family, dad and 3 daughters. It gives the impression that this was the only way the producers could acquire enough actors to fill all the parts.

Ummi MxM So So Bad. Waste of money and time. Acting is so bad it makes you cringe. So many plots and plans that just do not make sense. It's comical but in a very bad way. How can EVERY Actor in this movie get it so very wrong? Who wrote the Lines, 6 year old? Most probably the worst movie I have ever seen and believe me after going back to watch the old Batman & Robin Drama with the 'BOOMS' & 'CLASH' that is saying something! Ridiculous from start to finish. Maybe for 4/5 year olds but certainly not for anyone older, let alone teenagers or adults. The movie industry must have a lot of money to waste to bring out this trash. So much potential just wasted.

Nikola Djuran I'm guessing Casper, having been excited with the experience of working at Mortal Kombat franchise for the first time, decided to make a semi-'Mortal Kombatish' movie, of which he thought it would kinda be appealing both to kids (the adolescents anyway) and the adults. That said, the movie might have even worked had it been made in the late 80's/ early to mid '90s period, but at this era, it's just all too outdated, shallow and one-dimensional. Plus, the teenage girl-like fairies, sleeping princesses and daffy impostor-princes on one side and the gory scenes of head-ripping on the other side... well, don't actually go hand in hand.I also fail to get it why Casper every so often has to cast his family into the movies he chooses to play in. Catherine, with all the due respect for her pedigree, isn't much of an actress, neither is Grace. Maya's acting was the family's saving grace, as she managed to yield the genuine impression of a frightened, and depressed, yet wickedly cunning little character... but then, the overall sluggish and uninspired aura of the movie didn't help her qualities shine through. While I envision Maya as a potential successful actress, she needs to get herself out of the poor production cinema. Unlike her mother, she actually does, if only in a form of hope, make me believe she is up to the high-rated, classic productions. The Sleeping Beauty is but the beginning, and she is young enough to perfect her talents and career to the level she is worthy of.Someone on the discussion board was wondering why Finn Jones accepted to do the role. Maybe the crew, who sensed in the preproduction the movie would suck, thought a high class young actor would come up as a saving grace, just as they though Michael York's narration would yield the story as thrilling or at least bearable.Generally, an averagely endearing pastime of a movie, but hardly something to be remembered, either among the critics or the audience.

Vivacious-Virgo The 2014 Sleeping Beauty is mediocre at best in pretty much every capacity, but at least I got a few laughs out of it. It's no 'The Room', but there's a chuckle or two in there.This is just your average, run of the mill fairytale. Only with zombies and badly rendered CGI monsters. The prince is kind of a jerk this time and the princess is in the movie even less than in the original.So the queen and king of Magicfantasyland have a baby daughter and hold a ceremony in the courtyard. The three good fairies are busy blessing her with vague, useless gifts like "truth" instead of chainsaw arms when an evil fairy (now Tambria rather than Maleficent) bursts in and curses the child to be pricked by a spindle before her 16th birthday. Years later, instead of hiding her way on her 16th, her parents take her to a party and let her run off with some dude. And hey, he just happens to have a spindle. As you may guess, trouble ensues.Somewhere close by, a bratty prince and his goons are picking on his whipping boy (the prince is like 24 by the way). The whipping boy has been receiving poetry from Sleeping Beauty and has fallen in love with her. The brat prince discovers her kingdom's plight and runs off to face the evil Tamera and her gang of monster zombies-- goons and whipping boy in tow.The Bad:The writing is bland and amateurish. Half the time, I wasn't sure whether to blame the actors or the script for a particularly terrible line. There's only so much you can do to make junk sound passable. And the exposition... Oh, the exposition.The plot. The story is pretty simple, but there are so many unanswered questions. Like, where is the prince's kingdom? Why do we never see it? Why does the prince have a whipping boy? Does everyone in this land get spankings at his age? What do you need another kingdom for? Don't you already have one? And as for the princess, why would you want to touch the tip a spindle-- curse or no? How did you write those letters while sleep? Why did the characters shed established personality traits and prejudices like a change of clothes? Why weren't the plot devices wearing their disguises? (I'm looking at you conveniently omnipresent commoner girl)-The acting. I often wondered if some of these actors were reading from a teleprompter. I've never heard people fail so hard at expressing emotion. Though I suppose I'd be a hollow shell of a person if I were cast in this too. The Maleficent stand in (Olivia d'Abo) is flat which is a shame considering the potential in a role like that. The prince (Edward Lewis French) is given terrible material at best and extremely annoying at his worst. I believe Sleeping Beauty's mother may take the cake in the bad acting department. I almost wished she had more screen time.The sheer lack of damns given was remarkable.The filmography. The filming was clumsy and sometimes confusing. I'm no filming expert and I typically don't notice bad camera work. If I noticed it this time, there's definitely a problem.The Good:Okay, I'm really scraping the bottom here...The musical score. I didn't really notice it. So it couldn't have been that bad, right?The good fairies. The good fairies were no where near as annoying as the fairies in 'Maleficent'. And just to make sure of that, one of them was taken care of during the opening sequence and the other two were hardly seen again. Definitely an improvement. Barrow (Finn Jones) didn't annoy me as the lead and actually did a decent job of playing the annoyed whipping boy the whole time. Though I had a hard time telling if this was actually good acting or if he was actually annoyed the whole time. I mean what with being involved in this mess and being tricked into sating the director's weird whipping boy fetish, who knows?The ending. Everyone loves a good twist. But mostly, I was just happy that it was over.