Waking Sleeping Beauty

Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)

  • 71% of critics liked it
    (49 reviews)

  • 80% of users liked it
    (3,812 ratings)

Walt Disney Pictures has been the leading name in animated filmmaking since the 1930s, but the studio's crown was looking more than a little tarnished in the 1980s after a series of expensive commercial and critical disappointments such as The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron, and The Great… More

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PG,
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Genres
Documentary, Television
In Theaters
Mar 26, 2010 Wide
Walt Disney Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

    More Belle, more Ariel, more Simba -- and less of Eisner and Co. -- would have made a more interesting movie.

  • Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

    It's a not-so-great movie about some great movies.

  • Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

    A few too many industry asides, but filled with behind-the-scenes moments.

  • Stephen Holden, New York Times

    Sly retrospective exercise in corporate self-congratulation masquerading as an insider's tell-all.

  • J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

    Even in its sanitized state, this movie about the generational revolt that reinvigorated Disney's animation department in the 1980s and '90s is fascinating

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Michael E


    An interesting look back at the past of Disney's second age of Renaissance in the late 80s and early 90s. But my only problem with the film, its SO SLOW PACE. It may only be around an hour and a half, but it moves at the speed of a snail, and it feels like its 2 and a half hours,… More

  • Jennifer X


    I really want to like this movie, but it was basically a big "aren't we all awesome" masturbatory celebration rather than any juicy dirt.

  • Fernando Rafael Q


    Engrossing account of the men who saved Disney's animation branch and brought it to a second "Golden Age" from the late-eighties to the mid-nineties (and all the drama that arose between them). Touching film is filled with interesting trivia and little-known facts about… More

  • Jake .


    The thing I love the most about Waking Sleeping Beauty is that it really is about absolutely nothing. I mean, alright, there's stuff going on, but it's not this complicated, detailed mess. It's more like, 'yeah, this what we did and how we felt while doing it.… More

  • Ken S


    Fantastic, great footage that shows Tim Burton as the creepy weird kid you always knew he was.

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