Maleficent (2014)

There seems to be a paradigm shift going on at Walt Disney. It wasn’t that long ago that whenever people

thought of Disney movies, they would immediately think of fairy tales come to the  big screen, complete with happily ever after. For a while, this formula worked well for Disney, and allowed them to be the dominant animated studio during their renaissance. And then Pixar came and changed the game. Since then, Disney has played second fiddle to Pixar’s animated films. The “Disney Magic” seemed to be gone. Something needed to change. The old formula of damsels in distress, to be saved by a knight in shining armor while they sing and dance wasn’t working anymore in this day and age. And then Enchanted came out in 2007.