movie review Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, more colorful and energetic than the first film

He was bad, then turned into good, but he turned bad again. It's hard to understand Maleficent, but one thing is certain: when making plans to meet in-laws in the future, no one wants to hear, "Maleficent will come for dinner."

That is a dialogue sentence in the film Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, a sequel to the film Maleficent made in 2014 ago.

Just like before, this film made actress Angelina Jolie use green contact lenses, black horns and prosthetic cheekbones that were very prominent.

But as a fairy-tale action film, this film is more colorful, energetic and hit than the first film.

 Maleficent 2 © Walt Disney Studios 

In the first film, Maleficent turned to love Aurora, played by Elle Fanning, the sleeping princess who had been cursed.

But when the film generates more than the US $ 700 million, he has to say goodbye to a happy ending forever, and return to his true self. Plus, his name was synonymous with a crime - he really didn't have much choice.

In the latest film, Aurora is now the Queen of the Moors, a magical forest where she and Maleficent, her godmother, live.

Special effects bring life to life, with a bed of flowers shining with light, colorful butterflies filling the air and adorable little creatures including Pinto, a variation of the hedgehog.

He is engaged to Prince Philip, played by Harris Dickinson, from the neighboring kingdom of Ulstead, whose kiss failed the curse of Maleficent and woke him up.

Kind and gentle, Philip is so conspicuous that you might not realize he was played by a different actor from the first.

Maleficent 2 © Walt Disney Studios 

The best cast choice was to add Michelle Pfeiffer as Philip's mother, who made the beautiful and elegant Queen of Britain an evil villain, whose tame smile disguised her plans to derail the marriage and take over the Moors.

She hid this plot from her peace-loving son and husband, King John (Robert Lindsay), but underneath her clothing room filled with stunning silvery dresses was a workshop where her accomplices made deadly poisonous red dust for Maleficent.

The engagement dinner when Maleficent met with Philip's parents gave him an excuse to commit another crime. When tree branches move to form bridges across the trench - even the small special effects are done gracefully - Maleficent reluctantly walks along with Aurora to the palace of the King and Queen.

Because she wanted her fiancé parents to like her godmother, Aurora made Maleficent hide her horns under a scarf, an unfortunate start to a dinner that ended with a flash of green light flying from Maleficent's angry hands.

With her character shifting from good to bad and coupled with special effects, Jolie doesn't need to do much other than pose. He showed a flash of jealousy and anger but also changed clothes very often.

Over time, this film feels a lot of pieces that are not suitable to be linked together.

There were sporadic attempts to quietly wake up - "This is not a fairy tale," Queen Ingrith warned Aurora that was naive - but not enough to make this film successfully lull adults.

There are also clues to metaphors; creatures known as faes, with horns and wings like those of Maleficent, have been marginalized and driven out of society.

they create a vague connection with real-life prejudice and hatred, but the idea is so vague that it is not important. Chiwetel Ejiofor is practically unrecognizable under a prosthetic mask as a fae who wants to make peace with humans, while others of his kind want to go to war with the.

In addition to a half-hearted stab at contemporary resonance, there is a thunderous retro touch. When Philip proposed Aurora, he knelt down and held an open box with an engagement ring, as if he were in a most romantic comedy.

We want Aurora to get love, but this ancient ornament contradicts this strong women's-themed film, as represented in the cover-credit theme song, You Can't Stop the Girl by pop star Bebe Rexha.

With King John under the spell of sleep for most of the film and Prince Philip being so boring, the men in the film are sidelined while the women do battle.

On the wedding day, when the Ingrith's deception came into force, the fairies and humans fought with each other inside and outside the castle.

Fae joins the battle, attacks by human soldiers, and people turn into goats.

The good godmother Aurora fairy, Knotgrass, Little, and Thistlewit try to escape from Ingrith's poison.

The order that is too long feels as though the sequel to Maleficent is borrowing the special effects of the rest of Avengers: Endgame for a tumultuous ending.

However, until then, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil cradles you easily. Like many Disney films, this is a commercial calculation with a little miracle.