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'Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil' Clips Angelina Jolie's Wings

This "extremely weird" sequel to the 2014 film that riffed on Disney's Sleeping Beauty shunts its main character off-screen for most of its running time, in favor of CGI spectacle.
In<em> Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, </em>Angelina Jolie returns as the iconic Disney villain.

As Disney continues to plunder its animated IP for live-action remakes, where these films fall on the spectrum of pointlessness has to do with how closely they adhere to the source. The remakes that simply copy the material from one format to the other, like or , have been consistently enervating whereas the ones that attempt a full gut rehab, like or the excellent , at least have the benefit of

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