Sleeping Beauty (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) - 2 Disc DVD and Book Set [1958]

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Studio: Disney

Region: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Format: PAL,

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Sales Rank: 2340

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must-have (03 January 2009)
exquisite edition for exquisite masterpiece for all time and such edition should be a regular edition.
excellent

Best DVD Set for Fans or Collectors (29 December 2008)
Figured I'ld add a review here of the actual box, as theres already a review for the film

This "Deluxe" edition comes in an exclusive book shaped box. Which is possibly the best packaging effort I've seen Disney manage in a while. The box is embossed in various places to enhance the details. With lashings of gold paint and colour

Inside the box is a copy of 2 disc set. It's exactly the same as the normal retail copy. The real jewel of this set is the book also contained within.

While Jungle Book and 101 Dalmatians had similar sets, their books were mostly picture based and didn't really have much to say. The book in sleeping beauty is more informative about the film and the history of the story, with plenty exclusive concept art and stories about the films development

The DVD as stated already is the same as the normal new retail release but if you havent got it yet or have the 2003 release this is still worth considering, as it has a few additional extras such as an improved DVD commentary and a better restoration.

Overall a great set with some care given to details and a lot of interesting features about the original film, if only Disney could show this amount of love to it's home releases more often

a medieval tapestry coming to life.............. (16 October 2008)
What is so exquisite about Sleeping Beauty is that it looks like a medieval tapestry coming to life. If you look closely at the details in the backgrounds you can see little twists in the leaves and curves in the tree bark which overall gives an ornate and opulent look still refreshing to this day. It was the most expensive film in it's day, it took over four years to make and Walt Disney stated to his artists and animators that they should take their time over it, make it beautiful and so it came as a shock when it didn't do all that well in the cinemas. It wasn't really able to communicate to an american youth who were smoking things they shouldn't and it seemed this highly romantic film was too idealistic in it's portrayal of young love, it felt as if it should have been released earlier than the late 1950's, so culturally you can see that it wasn't able to make audiences identify with it. But this is probably the one Disney film which stands the test of time better than any other, artistically speaking; since the music is exemplary and the imagery and animation highly captivating, more so than anything Disney has attempted in recent years. In places it is so beautiful to watch.

The Disney studios today have developed the way they tell fairy tales now to another stunning level as 2010 will mark a new leap in visual storytelling for the company with the release of Rapunzel Unbraided, a computer animated film which has the feel and sensitivity of a traditional animated 2d film yet with the texture of an oil painting coming to life. For years now the company has been trying to reinvent their style, pushing their visual language to another stratosphere and they may well have done it in Rapunzel, but from what I have viewed it does echo slightly the romantic style of Sleeping Beauty, it's attention to detail is just as shimmering and splendid ... we'll have to see. We can see though that this film, Sleeping Beauty, set a standard which modern animators and film makers still aim for and that is why Sleeping Beauty is such an enduring work of art, as it really aimed to make animation a cinematic art form, it was ahead of it's time and held a maturity wiser than it's time.

This edition is presented in a beautifully gold embossed covering, with a thoughtfully produced book, printed very well (with more care and attention than the previous editions; The Jungle Book ... collectors edition with book wasn't that well produced). The book has art work and an informed text which makes this version very attractive.