Maleficent: Mistress of Evil standee at the Saint John Cineplex.
Angelina Jolie spreads her CGI wings as Walt Disney’s most memorable villain, the wonderfully wicked Maleficent in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.
Five years after Princess Aurora’s (Elle Fanning, The Beguiled) sleeping curse was broken, Maleficent is thrown for a loop when her goddaughter’s beau Prince Phillip (Harris Dickinson, Mattias & Maxime) proposes marriage. She, along with her crow companion Diaval (Sam Riley, On the Road) travel with the young lovers to meet Phillip’s parents.
However, after clashing with Queen Ingrith (Michelle Pfeiffer, Scarface), who secretly wants to permanently divide humans and fae folk, Maleficent and Aurora find themselves on opposing sides and being misled by duplicitous figures (Chiewtel Ejiofor, Ed Skrein, Robert Lindsay) that they can never truly be family.
Jolie continues to make Maleficent an indelible cinematic icon for women and while providing a platform for morally-grey characters in a black-or-white world. Disney’s legendary Mistress of Evil, who possesses a soft spot the size of Texas for her goddaughter “beastie” has never been so good.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil opens in theatres on October 18.
