Sleeping Beauty is a masterpiece. In my opinion, it’s not just the best animated film to ever come out of Walt Disney Studios, but it is also the finest animated motion picture I’ve ever seen, period.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 22, 2024

It is a picture that will charm the young and tickle adults, since the old fairy tale has been transferred to the screen by a Disney who kept his tongue in his cheek throughout the film's animation.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 28, 2016

At once modernist and classical, Disney's Sleeping Beauty takes characters who look like paper cutouts from magazine cartoons and sets them against backdrops that look like expensive wallpaper patterns.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2014

The masterpiece of the Disney Studios' postwar style.

| Sep 3, 2008

The hero and heroine are sugar sculpture, and the witch looks like a clumsy tracing from a Charles Addams cartoon.

| Sep 2, 2008

Mary Costa's rich and expressive voice for the title character gives substance and strength to it.

| Jul 2, 2008

Although this rarely achieves the heights of classics like Snow White and Dumbo, it still has its moments.

| Jun 24, 2006

The colors are rich, the sounds are luscious and magic sparkles spurt charmingly from wands.

| Mar 25, 2006

Disney's last great fairy tale adaptation for more than thirty years, until Beauty and the Beast… a worthy successor to Snow White and Pinocchio.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 3, 2003

Magical!

Full Review | Original Score: A | Oct 2, 2003

Suffused with celestial metaphors and flights of visual fancy informed by pre-Renaissance art, the economical story is played for cosmic pathos and staged as pagan ritual.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2003