In the video, a very in-character Maleficent is put to the test when a villainous toddler approaches her. “It’s awfully small,” the evil queen sneers at the tiny tot — who promptly blows ...

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is directed by Joachim Rønning (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), with a script by Linda Woolverton, Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster.

Maleficent’s mistrust and distaste of all humans save for her precious beastie, her pet name for Aurora, reaches new comical notes when Prince Phillip (Harris Dickinson, “Beach Rats”) proposes.