#like i would go again for angelina but god stop shoving phillip in my face

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honestly only saw maleficent 2 just for angelina, and even then she actually didn't appear much in the movie titled after her character??? i love the first one and the disney tradition of fucking up the sequel is alive and well. i'm so mad at everything in this sequel tbh.

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i didn’t like the writing it was so wishy washy, like yeah i was your guardian all my life but suddenly we at war and you didn’t choose me so fuck you and aurora who asks mal to hide her horns (aurora asking mal to hide who she is just to please human royalty ?? what ??” or really believed she cursed the king i was like “bitch ????” the movie also clearly didn’t know what to do with diaval which is a shame because he’s a good character and mediator for the girls, the new prince phillip is dry as a cardboard, i hate the movie was centered around their marriage, like aurora’s priorities were always the Moors and Mal and she says herself she doesn’t know how to live with humans but we got the disney ending where they both leave the moors unprotected with Aurora becoming queen in a human kingdom and the deus ex machina of maleficent origins and leaving with her people ?? In the end, Ingrid was right, Aurora became a nice little queen who will pop out babies and forget the moors and Mal will appear from time to time, when she’s not guiding her people, completely destroying the relationship dynamics between the main three characters, who were all separated the whole movie.

what happened to i will always be with you, we could care for each others ?

don’t get me wrong, it was still beautiful, and michelle pfeiffer was terrific but she also sipphoned a bit too much of screentime, it starts too slow and ends too abruptly because of lack of time. It was nice to see Mal almost as a child amongst her people, no longer the scary witch people used to call her but i didn’t like the “mother” thing, aurora and mal’s relationship have always been complex, we don’t know how dark faes age or develop as she is still pretty childish herself and it felt more like to deter the loud malora shippers from the first film than suddenly making mal loses it at the word “mother”. They didn’t have to separate and Aurora to marry to show they’ve grown, it’s such basic nuclear family bullshit, and that’s definitely what the first movie was actively fighting.

The movie was indeed called maleficient but it was just explained why by queen ingrid in a sentence, she made up the tale of the evil fae to destroy her reputation and because we learned mal is basically dark fae royalty that’s it.

also killing the gentle black dark fae leader who wanted peace to push the faes and Mal to war ? Icky.