Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.5
Video		5.0
Audio		4.5
Extras		2.5
Overall		4.0

Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Movie Review

Disney and Best Buy have collaborated on a store exclusive SteelBook release for the 'Signature Collection' Blu-ray release of the classic 1959 animated film 'Sleeping Beauty.' The disc and digital content is identical to that found in the wide release. See the 'Special Features and Extras' section of the review below for more on the SteelBook's look and feel.

Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

For a full video review, please click here; note that this link points to the previously issued Diamond Edition release of the film.

Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

For a full audio review, please click here; note that this link points to the previously issued Diamond Edition release of the film.

Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

What a handsome SteelBook. It's smooth but not necessarily super glossy or prone to attracting obviously visible fingerprints. The film's title appears on the top-left side in a royal purple color. The title proper is debossed but surrounding text -- "Disney" and "Anniversary Edition" -- are not. The background is an attractive flat stoney color. The right-hand side and the bottom are busy but tastefully so. A dragon looms over much of the action along the right. Prince Phillip and Princess Aurora embrace bottom-right, behind them a stream of fire coming from the dragon's mouth. Maleficent looks on to the couple's left. The castle appears below her and the three fairies float about further left of the evil one. The Signature Collection stamp appears bottom-left. The rear panel, which carries over the stone finish, is a little less interesting. Of visual note is a relatively small center-placed depiction of several forest animals -- the owl, two rabbits, a Cardinal, and a Bluebird -- wearing Prince Phillip's attire. A copyright notice and what appears to be a model number appear at the bottom left and right, respectively. The spine carries over the same color scheme. The film's title, as it appears on the front (minus the debossing work) runs down the length. A Disney Blu-ray logo appears at the top and a Disney logo appears at the bottom.

Inside, the digital copy code is tucked underneath the left-hand-side tabs. The two discs, one DVD and one Blu-ray, are situated on the right in staggered-stacked formation. The inner print is a two-panel spread that features Princess Aurora on the left, walking with a basket in her hands toward her cottage, which appears on the right. It's a somewhat darker print with plenty of natural green throughout the scene.

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Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

This is a very nice SteelBook. The front artwork is particularly striking. Unfortunately, the supplements are a bit of a mess. Too much of it is digital only and there's plenty that's missing altogether. Video and audio are recycled from previous versions, so this SteelBook is only recommended to packaging collectors and to newcomers who rightly balk at the secondary market prices for the previously issued discs.