Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast creates an air of enchantment from its first moments, one that lingers and builds and takes on qualities of warmth and generosity as it goes along.

Its classicism feels unforced and fresh. Its romance neither winks nor panders. It looks good, moves gracefully and leaves a clean and invigorating aftertaste. I almost didn’t recognize the flavor: I think the name for it is joy.

It looks the same, moves the same and sounds the same (those Alan Menken songs!) as the original. But some of the magic has gone M.I.A.

Beauty and the Beast is delectably done; when it’s over, though, and when the spell is snapped, it melts away, like cotton candy on the tongue.

The whole movie is lit in that fascinatingly artificial honeyglow light, and it runs smoothly on rails – the kind of rails that bring in and out the stage sets for the lucrative Broadway touring version.

The clock, Cogsworth, serves as a perfect metaphor for the production itself: The movie’s just as poky and lumbering as he is while huffing up the staircase to escort Belle to her bedroom.

It’s largely a frustrating clone of the original movie — same songs, same script, often even the exact same shot choices — but it replaces every moment of authentic or moving emotion with bombast and hyperbolic overemphasis.

A Bela e a Fera (2017) é mais do que uma simples refilmagem — é uma homenagem respeitosa e apaixonada ao legado da Disney, ao mesmo tempo em que se firma como uma obra com identidade própria. Cada detalhe parece ter sido tratado com carinho, e o resultado é um filme que emociona, encanta e faz sonhar. Pra mim, não tem discussão: é uma verdadeira obra-prima.Nota: 10/10: 100 - obra-prima

Very disappointed in this movie. I was expecting it to be as good as the cartoon one, but it wasn't. It was actually kind of boring. I also didn't buy in to thier chemistry at all. It looked really cool though.

As live-action Disney remakes go, not the worst. But still, overly gaudy. I did enjoy how the ending had a bit more weight than the original, but other than that, not very memorable. The CG is so "perfect" looking that it looks like the characters are standing in front **** painting in certain scenes. I just wish Disney would have spent more time developing new stories instead of rehashing old ones.

Disney’s 2017 reimagining of “Beauty and the Beast” is something of a masterpiece in one regard: that it manages to maintain the qualities of a lackluster and patently insulting funeral procession from start to finish. Even though the movie should have been a clear-cut homage to one of the entertainment studio’s greatest animated achievements, it bungled every attempt to liken itself to the original while not offering much creative originality to take its place. The musical sequences are hollow and poorly presented audio-wise, the characters are shallower than a splotch of oil in a frying pan, and the plot is so mangled with idiotic world building decisions that any sense of a plausibly coherent narrative is lost to the wind. What really undercuts the success of the story beyond the abysmal aesthetics is the lack of a strong, overarching moral like the original animated feature conveyed. The closest thing the film has to a “lesson to be learned” takes place when the Beast and Belle magically teleport to the location of her mother’s passing, and after hearing Maurice’s grief at the loss of his wife, the Beast apologizes to Belle for calling her father a thief when he did. Words cannot express how negative of a life lesson this is, especially to a young audience, that they can commit crimes and be absolved of responsibility just because something sad happened to them in the past. Concerning the characters as they were portrayed, Emma Watson’s take on (Belle) was lukewarm at best, though the script didn’t do her any favors in robbing Belle of her warm tenderness in exchange for more abrasive, self-affirming tendencies. Dan Stevens’ (Beast) was at the mercy of the CGI skin-suit tethered to him, which made any intimidation he might have brought to the table negligible and stitched an air of weakness into every conversation he undertook. Luke Evans’ (Gaston) was tolerable, though was again brought down several pegs by the scriptwriting and alterations made to his character, which was even worse in the case of Josh Gad’s (LeFou), who might as well have been an entirely different add-on since his performance transformed the original character’s humor into sheer annoyance. Among the assorted servants in the castle, only Ian McKellen’s (Cogsworth) managed to resonate decently well, with many of the other characters suffering more from their dodgy visual representation than the voice acting bringing them to life. In conclusion, the live action retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” was a complete and utter exhibition of self-sabotage on both ends of the spectrum; its pathetic attempt at being comparable to the original film was missed completely (being alike in name only), and it certainly couldn’t stand on its own merits as its own film due to the plethora of plot, character, and setting issues that could make an Elementary School script resemble the works of Shakespeare by comparison. Additionally being over-bloated by a runtime exceeding two hours, a very strong case could be made toward simply watching the 1991 classic: you will not only receive a far greater viewing experience, but you’ll also save forty minutes of your life to do something infinitely better than witness what happens when a timeless story undergoes a transformative curse that no amount of true love could remedy.

If you need an example of soulless corporate product made for nothing more than extended IP holding and making a lazy buck, look no further than the CGI reimagining of, in perhaps, Disney’s best animated movie ever: Beauty and the Beast. This remake is nothing more than bloat with an ugly layer of pretend realistic graphics rather than a charming, brightly colored animated feature. It’s boring, it drags, the acting is subpar barring a few actors that seem to be trying. All the music is off note and legacy numbers are played at what feels like 1.5x speed and all new numbers are forgettable additions. This is all made worse by the ending being robbed of any meaning as true love does not break the curse in typical modern Disney fashion. Skip this one and let it rot to obscurity. Watch the original instead.