Maleficent 2 movie...

The second movie (and possibly the final?) of the Maleficent movies is out and I watched it with our youngest at the official debut a couple of nights ago. Since being a kid I've always been interested in what used to be termed folklore which we now know to be indigenous stories etc. and Cinderella was one of those stories that I found very interested growing up in not then being aware of having our own indigenous folklore stories i.e. tala o le vavau, tala mai anamua (ancient Samoan stories).

What's interesting about this movie is that as the first movie took care of the backstory to how Maleficient (from Cinderella) became evil (in being misunderstood) this second movie reveals what happens when the Princess decides to get married with Michelle Pfeiffer playing the evil mother in law to be.

It's an interesting storyline because it builds on the idea that Maleficient isn't really evil (as the title suggests) but that she has the potential to be evil with the powers that she possesses but that with the love that she possesses as a mother that in actual fact the real evil lies in the step mother to be who is actually human.

I won't spoil the rest of the movie for those who are wishing to watch it as but I must say that I enjoyed the first movie more so than the sequel. Perhaps it's because the creators decided to add other elements that I wasn't sure really fitted with the story but it did develop it further.

Anyway, it has a PG (Parental Guidance) rating with some battle scenes that some young children might find scary but all in all it was interesting to watch the development of the sequel from where the original left it...