Sleeping Beauty saw Maleficents defeat at the end at the hands of Prince Phillip, but one wild Disney theory explains she survived this and got way stronger than she already was. Disney is home to many animated movies, mostly based on fairy tales, and among them is Sleeping Beauty. Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wolfgang Reitherman, Eric Larson, and Les Clark, and based on Charles Perraults 1697 fairy tale of the same name, Sleeping Beauty was released in 1959, and though it initially received mixed reviews and was a box-office bomb, its now one of Disneys most beloved classics.
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