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.... Okay, I know I'm going to get flack for this, but the more I think about it, the more I think that Maleficent is extremely inferior to Sleeping Beauty. Don't get me wrong, the acting was great and the special effects were amazing, but the story falls flat on its rear end and the characters (save for Aurora) are pretty flanderized. They turned Maleficent, one of the most badass Disney villains, into a heroine, nearly making her devoid of any form of maliciousness. They made the three Good Fairies completely useless and annoying, they pulled a "Ron the Death Eater" thing on King Stefan...
Who's to say it's all a director's fault for a movie being "bad" when the writer is to blame? Yes, Linda Woolverton. I'm looking at you.
Anger (C) Disney, Pixar
Meme (C) Me, I guess.
Honestly, Linda Woolverton really ruined Sleeping Beauty with this dreck, especially when she was NEVER the type to become a good guy (heck, she wasn't even the type to start OFF as good only to descend into evil like Anakin Skywalker or Jack Krauser or Magneto). And it managed to tarnish Stefan and most of the other characters, even Maleficent herself, in the worst way possible (Stefan, in this movie, despite being one of Disney's best fathers, was essentially turned into Brian Irons from Resident Evil, or even Brody Mitchum from Heroes, just to give an example). The only thing worse than her ruining Sleeping Beauty with this garbage, is that she also unintentionally managed to ruin Beauty and the Beast with this, thanks to her bragging that those horrid messages being pushed in the Maleficent movie were the exact same ones she intended to push in Beauty and the Beast in Time Magazine (and in hindsight, I can definitely see some rather toxic messaging in there, with most of the males not being particularly well-depicted, even Beast and Maurice, and the triplets came across as nicer than Belle, the actual main protagonist despite being her foils and being demonized needlessly).