I watched the first one when it came out and thought it fell flat especially for a maleficent film.
Anyway see the second one and daymn.
The start draws you in with a plot of two evil women hating each other. I was expecting maleficent too have the villain monologue and return to the moors too think of a plan of action to defeat the evil queen. But no. She flies off gets shot saved by another one of her kind. Like what? And then for the rest of the film you get hyped up for a battle or justice then its just entirely anti climatic.
Spoilers. There's a phoenix and the camera angles give it a look of here we go her comes the fire onto the evil queen because you know it destroys a bloody building next to it. But nope quick reflex's of the queen and the Phoenix saves the princess instead.
My verdict. Awesome visuals especially the magic. But the music at the end gives it away. Another female empowerment film with hardly any plot and giving the villain of the sleeping beauty, a god complex among her people dosent really work? How come they don't have powers? There was no back story to describe this? I guess she is Raven kind? I dunno. Cool but meh haha. Don't get me wrong female empowerment films can be good but you have to write them so they are cool man!! Justice not meh. That's how I write anyway lol.