taken as a childhood adventure, you can't get much better than this film
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10/22/08
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
90 %
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Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 26
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 7.7/10
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 love's first kiss. Though the titular princess is... [More]
Starring: Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Barbara Luddy, Taylor Holmes
Director: Clyde Geronimi
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Reviews for Sleeping Beauty
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 hero and heroine are sugar sculpture, and the witch looks like a clumsy tracing from a Charles Addams cartoon.
09/02/08
This was the most expensive animated film to date, and every penny was on the screen.
09/02/08
Mary Costa's rich and expressive voice for the title character gives substance and strength to it.
07/02/08
Top Critic Although 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 Critic
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
The picture is so misanthropic that its happy ending feels more coma-dream than fairy-tale resolution
09/18/03
Suffused with celestial metaphors and flights of visual fancy informed by pre-Renaissance art, the economical story is played for cosmic pathos and staged as pagan ritual.
09/03/03
Latest News for Sleeping Beauty
August 29, 2008:
Disney Classics Begin Blu-ray Migration 
Good news, Blu-ray owners: you too will soon be able to purchase limited edition "Platinum Collection" versions of Disney titles, including "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,"... More...
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