Sleeping Beauty (Special Edition) BLU-RAY

• 5.1 Dolby Digital (English)
• DTS-HD MA 7.1 (English)
• In the original story, Princess Aurora sleeps for 100 years before being awakened by a prince's kiss. In the Disney version, Prince Philip comes to her rescue much sooner.
• George Brun's orchestral score, which was nominated for an Academy Award®, expertly blended famous themes from Tchaikovsky's ballet.
• With a budget that exceeded $6 million in 1959, this was Walt Disney's most lavish and expensive animated feature to date.
• Determined to make the characters as realistic as possible, Disney had a live action film shot with actors posing as Sleeping Beauty, the Prince, and Maleficent, for the animators to use.
• New York Times critic Bosley Crowther called the fight between Prince Philip and Maleficent "the noisiest and scariest go-round he [Disney] has ever put into one of his films."
• Live Menus -- Featuring A "Real Time" Castle Environment
• All-New Making Of SLEEPING BEAUTY Featurette
• Deleted Songs
• And More!
• Movie Chat -- Send Video Messages To Friends During The Movie
• Movie Challenge -- Live Trivia Game
• Movie Store -- Shop For Add-Ons And Downloads
• "Malificent's Challenge" Game
• Cine Explore
• Never-Before-Seen Alternate Opening
• All-New Game: "Briar Rose's Waltz"
• All-New Music Video

Director: Les Clark
Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton

Awaken your senses to the majesty of SLEEPING BEAUTY, Walt Disney's ultimate fairy tale. See more than you've ever seen before through the magic of state-of-the-art technology and experience this groundbreaking film restored beyond its original brilliance, in the way Walt envisioned it - pristine, beautiful, utterly breathtaking. From the grand celebration of Princess Aurora's birth to the fateful day when she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel and falls under Malificent's evil curse to Prince Philip's courageous battle against a fire-breathing dragon, the stunning artistry and spine-tingling sounds will transform your home into a fantastic world. The adventures continue as you are immersed into a wonderful world of bonus features.

Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Rating: 6/6 Review By: Ernest Marsh - Oct 02, 2008 Read review » Close review » My rating is 6 BUT why have Disney not got the picture ratio of the 70mm print, and instead gone for the 35mm anamorphic general release prints? This will upset a lot of perfectionists (like myself). The titles were never going to look good, with the backgrounds so soft, dull and messy, but get t... o the first animations and everything changes. Viewed in full HD a wonderful 3D feel falls over the whole movie, I doubt it ever looked this good even on its original roadshow presentations. The dts 7.1 master audio track is simply stunning. You also get as a bonus a SD copy of the movie affixed to the blu-ray case. Hav'nt watched the extras yet but they are in HD. THIS IS A REGION 'A' DISC