Why so much hype?

Thanks for the memories!

Fantastic!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

SLEEPING BEAUTY is a B-movie version of the story, shot in Bulgaria by actor Casper Van Dien, who seems to have cast most of his family in supporting roles. It bears little relation to the actual fairy tale and is more like a typical movie by The Asylum. A bullish prince and his companions go on a mission to rescue a beautiful princess from an evil queen, and along the way they encounter lots of terrible CGI dragons and random zombie-like foes. The budget is really low here, which means that none of it is remotely convincing, and Van Dien's direction is flat. The hero of the piece is Finn Jones, of GAME OF THRONES fame, and he gives a singularly wooden performance. The highlight is Olivia d'Abo, hamming up in pantomime style, as the villain of the hour.

Every now and and then I'll get a movie about which I know very little. After all, it can be an exciting way to discover those unknown hidden gems. This movie is not one of those gems. Sometimes a movie is so bad that I feel compelled to review it in a desperate attempt to save others the money I've wasted. This is *that* movie.It is shallow, disjointed, two dimensional and lacking any real discernible acting or directorial talent. The characters lack substance, or anything approaching a realistic thought or emotion. The story pays bare lip service to the original, which in itself would be fine, if the replacement contained any actual story line or drama. The moral of the story/film is not something from which you'd want your son or daughter learning. But then it doesn't really have a moral. Or a story.This seems strange given it is almost singlehandedly a creation of the Van Dien clan. The title role being blandly and subserviently played by daughter Grace who doesn't demonstrate any character which could place her as a female role model and develop her career (her entire existence can be encapsulated as too stupid to not touch spindle knowing what it represents, needs prince to wake her, instantly becomes his, and has his baby), while daddy Casper writes/directs and plays her dad and step mum Catherine Oxenberg plays mum. Two other kiddies have small roles too. The movie may have benefited from open auditions to get talented actors rather than just family members, but then it is possible that the writing was so bad that no-one with any actual ability wanted any of the roles.The budget is clearly low as the special effects are quite ordinary by 2014 standards, although if the story and acting were up to par, the effects probably wouldn't have mattered much. It is clearly not a kid-safe version with some unnecessary and graphic violence, which adds nothing to the movie, except perhaps confusion about who the target audience is.In a time when classic fairy tales are regularly being cleverly reinvented on our screens with strong female leads and complex characters, this movie completely misses the opportunity. Disappointing is probably the best that can be said of this production. It probably doesn't help that it is one of three movies in the same year re-telling the same fairy tale. While I haven't seen the other 2014 Sleeping Beauty, I cannot envisage it being as bad as this one, and Maleficent is a clear choice here instead.

What the hell is this crap???? It is sooooooooo baaaaaaad that It took me over 5 hours to finish watching it. I paid for it and so I was determined to watch it. I had to keep stopping and do other things in between to stop me from breaking the DVD. It has to be one the worst films ever made. When I saw the names I thought that this will really be a great one. Now I realised the big names are there because they are really has beens. The Acting is atrocious and the effect were non existent. Even the swords they use to fight with, If you call that fighting, Are blunt and could not even kill a fly. Fu...ng awful awful awful and should be taken of the shelves as it is stealing money from innocent people.

how is possible to shoot a story-tail for kids 5-12years ... where a woman literally tears a head of with a spine attached there was long 5 seconds picture of this disgusting thing....if I could I would sue you bastards in a court of law ... hope that someone will ...shame on you you bastards :/there is a lot of bad movies that show how bad things can be and this peace of .... is one of it.... Imagine that you leave your kids with it and don't watch it ... you would not eve know why they scream at night :/ but now you know and you know whom to blame :/ at my copy the picture is 1:15:38 .... you can see it for yourself.