Review Time: this sequel is mixed
Fundamental elements: there are
voice-over elements, cultural elements, background music, no subtitles when
another language is being used, slow-motion effects, mental imagery, time jumps
and place jumps.
The movement
of this sequel is consistently moving, but that is all I can say about that
[generally speaking, because I will be discussing this later on at different
points in this review the storyline, the character developments/I don't feel
comfortable saying the performers are the problem, this will become clear in
the character developments/performances section, but everything else in this
paragraph stands.]
Back stories/Storyline/Bloopers: early on in
this sequel we get a voice-over element [storyteller this only gets used once,]
mental imagery and dialogue exchanges, these elements fulfil their purpose and
all I can say about the storyline it is heavily predictable, let's just say the
Maleficent narrative is good, but the rest not so much and there are three
massive bloopers [I don't know how I'm going to discuss these three bloopers;
because I realized after watching this and these are fundamental core points to
both projects.] But I will try my best not to give too much away, this item is
cursed and it has a curse on it specifically for one individual so it shouldn't
work on anyone else? On top of that I have more shouldn't the only way to
release the individual in question would to do the same thing and finally
didn't Maleficent try to lift the curse in the first film and couldn't? So what
she does towards the end of this film makes no sense or unless the magic is
weaker now [but that would be them clutching at straws a little bit to come up
with this] or I may have missed something so just to cover my back I could be
wrong here about these three bloopers.
Comedy level: here are two elements for you
to look out for/hear; the usage of a crossbow in one scene and pitchforks
[listen out for a reference to them.]
Artistic visions/Action sequences: now like its predecessor this project has lots to see and to
experience in it; in one way or another such as this highly creative and highly
imaginative Queen's head [it something that Batman would use and that is all
I'm saying,] musical instruments, dancing and there is this cat. Moving on to
the action sequences the usage of this black mystical creature is something
that stands out and yes visually [like I have already said from an artistic
perspective there is plenty to see and experience.] But from an action
sequences perspective; this baffles sequence is okay for what it is; I mean it
does what it is designed to do.
Character developments/Performances: well straight off the bat it wasn't too smart to separate Maleficent,
Aurora and Diaval for a very high percentage of this sequel, when in the
previous project these three characters/performers in different combinations or
singly [Jolie] gave that title so much in the first place and yes I have
already said that the Maleficent narrative is good.
But for the
other two they either get put into a standard narrative for their character or
hardly gets seen, so this is why I didn't feel comfortable saying the
performers earlier, because it isn't their fault that they had been separated
and when they are together in different combinations there is still good
chemistry/friction.
Moving on to
the newcomers to this sequel it ranges from if this is what they were going for
this performer/performers gives it to them or good chemistry/friction and
integrates themselves smoothly into this cast [yes it does depend where you are
is depending what you get and I still feel nothing for another three returning
characters/performers.
This film receives: 4/10, the more it
dawns on me; the more I realize that they should have just finished off this
different interpretation of Sleeping Beauty and gave Maleficent her own
spin-off film title and base her narrative in this project on that spin-off
film, on reflection I would have greatly preferred that to this.
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