The rear speakers aren’t as involved all the time, but when they do kick in the bass has enough presence and the mid-range drives the sound to complement heavily dramatic scenes-like that famous dragon sequence. The featured audio is an English DTS-HD MA 7.1 Surround that’s also probably the same one used on the 2008 transfer, which means that the only complaint, to quote John again, is that it’s not as immersive a soundtrack as Disney movies made in the digital age. There’s no visible grain, but there’s also no evidence of excessive DNR. The film is presented in 2.55:1 aspect ratio and has the same brilliant colors and sharp edges and implied depth as the 2008 release. But if you already have the Platinum edition, then the only decision you have to make is whether you prefer bonus features or a DVD and Digital Copy. Though this Diamond Edition seems to sport the same AVC/MPEG-4 transfer as the previous Blu-ray release, it’s still a great transfer. It was also the first time that Disney used a single artist’s vision for a film, and art director Eyvind Earle’s elongated, one-dimensional pre-Renaissance style marked the first time that highly detailed backgrounds were used in an animated feature. “Sleeping Beauty” was the final entry in Disney’s original fairytale princess trilogy, which also included “Snow White” and “ Cinderella.” A milestone in animation, it had the largest budget ($6 million) of any previous full-length animated feature, and it was the first animated feature filmed in widescreen. Walt Disney once said, “Of all the stirring legends of the triumph of good over evil, none has ever been so inspirational to me as ‘Sleeping Beauty.’” The film may not be as rich and complex as “Beauty and the Beast,” nor does it have the epic pageantry of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” But “Sleeping Beauty” does have the power of simple allegory. Aurora is just as charming as the prince in this film, but because the plot is simpler and the focus is on love (the princess sings several such songs), boys used to fast-talking Disney sidekicks and action throughout may fidget a bit until the big dragon-fighting finale. Just in case, one of them was able to alter Maleficent’s curse so that Aurora (whom they call Briar Rose) would only fall into a deep sleep and remain in a virtual coma until love’s first kiss brought her back to life. To save the princess, the trio gives up their wands and raises the royal child deep in the forest, without magic, until she passes that 16th birthday. There’s less humor in “Sleeping Beauty” than today’s youngsters have grown accustomed to, but three good fairies provide a modicum of comic relief. She both frightened and captivated children when the film first showed in 1959, and she’s likely to do the same for another generation. “Sleeping Beauty” tells the story of a king and queen whose baby is cursed by a malevolent witch with the promise that before the child’s 16th birthday she’ll prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die! Maleficent (voiced by Eleanor Audley), one of the most magnificent of the Disney villains, is a sorceress with spiral-horned headgear and flowing black gown who can vanish into thin air, transform herself into fire or a fire-breathing dragon, and send minions scurrying with jolts of lightning from her staff.
Set in the 14th century and adapted from Charles Perrault’s version of the tale (Perrault also wrote the ballet which Tchaikovsky scored), “Sleeping Beauty” is closer in structure to one related by the Brothers Grimm, who inspired Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” But so what? It’s tough to perfect perfection (or near perfection), isn’t it? Now Disney is saying they’ve restored it again, yet my eyes and ears can’t tell the difference.
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Presented in its original 2.55:1 aspect ratio (rather than the 2.35:1 ratio on the previous DVD)” the movie “couldn’t be more perfect.” Well, except for a juiced up DTS-HD MA 7.1 Surround Sound that is clear and pristine, but lacking the dynamic effects speaker presence that contemporary moviegoers are used to. Originally presented in Technirama 70 and Technicolor, Disney painstakingly restored the entire movie to its former glory frame by frame” and “cleaned and polished over 118,000 individual cells to give us the product we now have. Puccio called the image quality “resplendent, to say the least. Then in 2008 the studio released “Sleeping Beauty” on a 2-Disc Platinum Blu-ray, and Movie Met’s John J.
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