Maleficent was for me as a film already a pleasant surprise, but what James Newton Howard has composed the music to be in literally magic! His flair for fine, detailed sounds than on emotions hardly at top moods, to brute sound thunderstorm dominated this man like no other. Had I been "Snow White & the Huntsman" impressed, he surpasses himself here again - simply amazing! Already the first piece "Maleficent Suite" attracts a cast a spell and at no time would you press the Skip button in the following pieces. Who needs still a reference sample to retest, let him hear yourself sometimes "Maleficent is Captured" on - the sound film music to perfection. But there's only one thing: full marks!
