The Twist: The big twist Maleficient originally intended to have was that "true love" isn't necessarily going to be between a Princess and the Prince she just met. Realising that Frozen had pipped them to the punch (do the various productions at Disney not coordinate?), a second reveal was added. Turns out that Galadriel-style narrator from the intro who stuck around through the whole movie is actually a future Aurora. Why It's So Dumb: Maleficent could easily have been re-titled Narration: The Movie. There's so much padding doled out in voice-over in a movie already overly-long and heavy on exposition. Yet rather than finding a better way to get the info across, the writers decided to flimsily justify it with this lazy last minute reveal and call it a day. The story of Sleeping Beauty is not a complicated one - the original animation is 75 minutes long and half of that's Aurora singing the seventeen different versions of Once Upon A Dream - and even with the shoe-horned "re-imagining" Maleficent really doesn't have a complexity that needs to be expanded upon. And trying to tie the narrator to the story doesn't hide that fact.
