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Utter solitude wrote: I could have done without the humanizing backstory.

My favorite thing about Maleficent is that she's just evil. Maleficent, for me, destroyed that. If I'd never seen Sleeping Beauty, I might have enjoyed the movie. As it is, it's a good movie if you choose not to connect it to the animated film, which is how I'm treating it :D I actually thought, the backstory was the strongest aspect of the film. I liked that both Maleficent and King Stefan, were at fault for Aurora's curse. The twists in Maleficent are not different, than what Once Upon a Time does. Angelina Jolie's Maleficent has a very similar story arc, to Lana Parrilla's Evil Queen.... they suffered a betrayal that corrupted their outlook on life, and were redeemed through maternal true love.