Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Reviews

To be honest, even though ‘Maleficent’ was not bad, I don’t think it really required a sequel but, obviously, since this movie had been fairly successful at the box-office, a follow-up was unavoidable, I’m afraid. Still, there was a major obstacle to overcome. Basically, in the previous movie, they spent the whole duration to convince us that Maleficent was not so bad after all so how should you then approach this character in a sequel? By making her bad again? Well, even though this movie was called ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’, there wasn’t so much evil about her. In fact, even though Maleficent was supposed to be the main character, the movie never really focused on her and I think during a third of the running time, she wasn't involved at all. And, yet, I don’t think it was a total failure though. First of all, nowadays, we don’t get very often the opportunity to see Angelina Jolie acting in a movie and she was still pretty much pitch perfect in this role. Furthermore, the diner scene was actually promising and did remind me of ‘Shrek 2’. Seriously, it could have been so much more fun if they would have taken a completely different direction, showing how Maleficent struggled to act as a ‘regular’ person. Unfortunately, it did last only for a few minutes and, soon, the lovely Michelle Pfeiffer (the actual Evil witch in this movie, as if one Evil witch was not enough already…) launched her conspiracy which was just terribly generic and predictable. There was also a rather half-baked sub-plot dealing with other fairies like Maleficent which was added just to make sure she had something to do but it did backfire because, by adding even more characters in the mix, there was even less focus on her. Anyway, even if it was rather a misguided sequel, it was still watchable though and I guess it might be worth a look if you like the genre.