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infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the
kingdom - and to Maleficent's true happiness as well.”
So is it worthy of all the attention it seems to be getting? Personally I am not usually a fan of
Disney, too much glitter and sugar coating for my liking, and yes, this does have a certain
amount of that, but it has much more too.
Some of the story is love and light and twinkly faeries, but most of it is dark and disturbing. Its
themes of greed, arrogance and betrayal are not the usual Disney tripe and Angelina Jollie
plays the part of Maleficent wonderfully. Th H