Cinderella vs. Sleeping Beauty

willhunting

on 5/10/2010

Cinderella has to win this one, right?

ear

on 5/10/2010

You are right. Cinderella is more charming and magical but I still like the Dwarfs.

ear

on 5/10/2010

I still prefer Cinderella but I always confuse Sleeping Beauty with Snow White and those adorable dwarfs.

Charyou_Tree

on 7/2/2010

Don't much care for either princess. I don't think the adoration of Sleeping Beauty's animation and villain are deserved; Mallificent's among my least favorite Disney villains. And I'm bored with the story of Cinderella. At least it has characters with some level of charm, though. Not that I like the characters, just that the rats have some personality and don't bore me. Sleeping Beauty, aptly enough, almost put me to sleep.

johnmason

on 7/2/2010

Sleeping Beauty is one of the few Disney animated classics that I actually did not see when I was a kid, and only saw it for the first time quite recently. I loved the animation style and the look of the movie, but it was the first time with one of the movies from Disney's first Golden Age of animation that I actually felt they were ripping themselves off--specifically, with Cinderella and Snow White. It felt like a re-hash. Would I feel differently about this if I had seen Sleeping Beauty two decades ago? I dunno, but Cinderella gets my vote. (Oh, and as for the villains, Lady Tremaine is equally--if not more--menacing than Malificient, and she doesn't possess magic powers or turn herself into a dragon.)

nclysander

on 9/3/2011

Sleeping Beauty does benefit from Tchaikovsky's gorgeous music, some lovely singing, and a much more developed leading man. The second act, comprised of the birthday preparations and Once Upon a Dream sequence, is brilliant. But Cinderella herself is a more sympathetic character than Briar Rose, and I have more nostalgia for that movie. Cinderella wins.

JRM

on Mar 1

I think they're both on the same level. So, for me, it comes down to which would I sit and watch right now: Cinderella.