Sleeping Beauty

Walt Disney Studios' first true wide-screen animated feature also marked the end of an era: the last of its classic fairy tales (until "The Little Mermaid") and the first to exhibit cost cutting in the animation department. The graceful movements and delicately painted characters of earlier films are replaced with angular designs, solid colors and bold action, less nuanced but equally as vivid. The newly remastered "50th Anniversary Platinum Edition" features a never-before-seen alternate opening sequence (in sketch form), the new featurette "Picture Perfect: The Making of Sleeping Beauty," and three songs written for but not used in the film, as well as the featurettes, interactive supplements and archival goodies from the previous DVD release. The new two-disc edition is also available in a Blu-ray edition that includes a bonus standard-definition DVD.