Waking Sleeping Beauty

A documentary from the directors of The Lion King, reveals the circumstances, talent, work and people that brought about Walt Disney Animation Studios second "Golden Age" (Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King).

Being an animator and Disney aficionado, I was really excited to see this film. Especially from what the trailers led us to believe it would be about; the guts and hard work of the artists that put Disney Animation back on it's feet after years of failure and near closure of Disney's animation studio all together. While a we do get a portion of that story throughout, the documentary goes off on several tangents throughout and eventually becomes more of a behind the scenes of the rivalry between Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenburg. While all the information was very interesting to me because I'm kind of a Disney-nerd, I would imagine someone wanting to be inspired from seeing how the making of their favorite Disney movies saved Disney Animation, would be left a little bored and disappointed. If you want to find a documentary more like what I expected, I highly recommend The Pixar Story, a documentary about how Pixar Animation Studios came to be. You'll be inspired. But in the case of Waking Sleeping Beauty...not so much.

**1/2 out of 4 - Rentable