Maleficent (2014) **

A radical re-writing of the "Sleeping Beauty" tale, with the evil witch as the heroine of the story, Sleeping Beauty's father as the villain, the three fairies as incompetent fools and an impotent Prince unable to wake Sleeping Beauty with his kiss. Not as radical as an adaptation of Anne Rice's "Beauty Trilogy" would have been, but at least half-way there.