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12/20/08
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
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Reviews Counted: 31
Fresh: 28
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Consensus: This Disney dreamscape contains moments of grandeur, with its lush colors, magical air, one of the most menacing villains in the Disney canon.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: A beautiful princess born in a faraway kingdom is destined by a terrible curse to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep which can only be awakened by true... [More]
Starring: Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Barbara Luddy, Taylor Holmes
Director: Clyde Geronimi
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Reviews for Sleeping Beauty
The animation is -- as with all the early Disney's -- jaw-droppingly good.
11/03/08
taken as a childhood adventure, you can't get much better than this film
10/22/08
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10/18/08
...a fine family film.
10/13/08
Sleeping Beauty has been regarded as a minor classic for too long. This restored edition should reinforce that it's a classic, period.
10/03/08
The masterpiece of the Disney Studios' postwar style.
09/03/08
Top CriticThe hero and heroine are sugar sculpture, and the witch looks like a clumsy tracing from a Charles Addams cartoon.
09/02/08
Top CriticThis was the most expensive animated film to date, and every penny was on the screen.
09/02/08
Top CriticMary Costa's rich and expressive voice for the title character gives substance and strength to it.
07/02/08
Top CriticAlthough this rarely achieves the heights of classics like Snow White and Dumbo, it still has its moments.
06/24/06
The colors are rich, the sounds are luscious and magic sparkles spurt charmingly from wands.
03/25/06
Top CriticNo review available.
03/18/06
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09/08/05
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12/28/04
No review available.
06/25/04
Disney's last great fairy tale adaptation for more than thirty years, until Beauty and the Beast… a worthy successor to Snow White and Pinocchio.
11/03/03
Magical!
10/02/03
It may be Disney's purest cinematic fairy tale...
10/01/03
The picture is so misanthropic that its happy ending feels more coma-dream than fairy-tale resolution
09/18/03
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August 29, 2008:
Disney Classics Begin Blu-ray Migration 
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