Sarentrol Masterful Cinema

Prolabas Deeper than the descriptions

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

2freensel I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

rejoychim We had more fun looking for the ridiculous mistakes.... From tire tracks in the mud to a reflector and a license plate on the wagon. A 1948 tombstone in the cemetery. Fake flowers and fake everything and MANY more! If you have time to sit through this boring movie, count the bloopers for yourself.

Leofwine_draca SLEEPING BEAUTY is a B-movie version of the story, shot in Bulgaria by actor Casper Van Dien, who seems to have cast most of his family in supporting roles. It bears little relation to the actual fairy tale and is more like a typical movie by The Asylum. A bullish prince and his companions go on a mission to rescue a beautiful princess from an evil queen, and along the way they encounter lots of terrible CGI dragons and random zombie-like foes. The budget is really low here, which means that none of it is remotely convincing, and Van Dien's direction is flat. The hero of the piece is Finn Jones, of GAME OF THRONES fame, and he gives a singularly wooden performance. The highlight is Olivia d'Abo, hamming up in pantomime style, as the villain of the hour.

David McPhail The acting,taking into account the script was terrible, was not bad for what they were given. It's a difficult one to sit through given the pace of this movie was painfully slow, the music about as lively as a funeral dirge, and special effects created by someone not familiar with computer animation. The rising of the dead from their graves was truly laughable as the bodies were immediately visible when they moved their arms. It must have been too hard to dig a more realistic looking graveyard. It's hard to imagine that this movie is duller than Sophie's Choice - a 3+ hour torture fest. This movie should be placed in an archive somewhere and forgotten. Better still, just destroy all copies of it and forget that it ever existed. I believe that it's a very bad sign when the stars are part if one family, dad and 3 daughters. It gives the impression that this was the only way the producers could acquire enough actors to fill all the parts.

shinieris-34-218575 So, Casper Van Dien (of Starship Troopers fame) decided to feature his daughters in a fantasy story. And he expects us to buy this crap? Where do I start? Poor acting. It seemed like everyone, even Casper Van Dien himself wasn't serious about this movie. From start to finish, all I see are actors and actresses with expressions made of wood, vocal tones as stiff as a rock and movement/positioning as bad as a fish in a fish trap. It's like watching a high school theater production, except those are acceptable because they didn't ask for payment, much, this is supposed to make money. The only actor who actually made an effort (and way better than they rest) was the horrible Prince Jason. I actually cheered for him in all his horridness because the others all sucked.Bad directing. Not only is one actor/actress make such woeful effort, everyone was equally bad, some more than other, including Casper Van Dien himself. To think that this was Johnny Rico? The positioning of characters and the timing as well as actions of characters also showed that the director didn't have much of an imagination. For example, instead of having the evil queen fire her magic bolts at the guards to push them away, she could've just incinerate them. She's an evil queen, isn't she? Make her evil. This movie made the villain look pathetically powerless and not evil enough.Weak and corny script. There's not a single line of script that was at all inspiring. Most of them were very much annoyingly corny.Last, what with the way the actors/actresses fall when the curse started? The way they fell was not at all natural. It was as if they were told to fall down and they tried to find the best position to lie down without feeling tired/sore or feeling pain. You were sleepy, you were supposed to fall, weakened, so fall properly. Not even Casper Van Dien and his wife was at all convincing.Let's look at the scene at the river/lake (I couldn't tell for sure, they said 'lake', but the lake looked too small to be a lake, more like pond). You stabbed the water monster with a sword, wounding him, but there's not even a trace of blood on your sword? What, do all water monsters have water for blood? The lack of blood is a continuing issue. They killed many things, yet there was no sign of blood on their swords. What? Let's look at the part where the corpses burst out of the ground. Anyone with half a brain can see that the corpses were buried less than 1 foot below ground. Heck, they were probably just put in a shallow depression and then had dirt piled on them, like a new grave, instead of a grave that was supposed to have been there for years.The narrator did his job well, but then again, his voice was sparse. A good narrator does not tell a good story, at least in a movie.The only thing I can praise about this movie is the beautiful setting. I can see that much work has been put into making it, but the acting skills of the actors/actresses, the weak and corny script and weak directing make it all worthless.What are you doing with this piece of crap, Casper Van Dien?