Because Maleficent is still in the theaters at the time of this podcast recording, the first few minutes of this movie review will be spoiler-free.

You're listening to Once, Episode unofficial podcast for ABC's TV show Once Upon a Time.

I'm Daniel J. Lewis.

I'm Aaron J.

And we're happy for you to be joining us.

And Aaron, what'd you think of this movie, Maleficent?

I loved it.

It was cool.

It was, in some way, so much once upon a time-like.

It was, in fact, very once-upon-a-time-like.

Because we got to see a familiar story, a fairy tale, very familiar to us, very Disney-ified

with certain colors and certain shapes and things.

And we'll talk more about some of those specific details in a moment. But it reminds us a lot of

Disney stuff. And it even said in the credits, based on Sleeping Beauty by Walt Disney Pictures,

as well as the original fairy tale.

So there were a lot of things like that.

But it was a really interesting twist because it gave us some backstory to Maleficent and gave us other interesting twists and turns about it.

Yeah.

I really enjoyed it.

I was so excited to see it and I'm so glad it didn't let me down because sometimes

when you're that excited to go see a movie that you've been waiting for for, I don't know, like a year

or something, sometimes then it's not very good and you're very disappointed. So it did not

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