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PaleoSteno

Just watch the original animated film.

7 years 1 month ago

firewordsparkler

Gorgeous, but a little too much autotune on Emma Watson's voice.

7 years 1 month ago

This movie added some scenes which I thought were good as they added more backstory and made me empathise with the characters more. Also liked that the movie addresses some plot holes from the original. Josh Gad and Luke Evans were great in their roles.

Had a few problems with the movie though. I honestly did not like Emma Watson's acting, it felt very underwhelming. Same expressions throughout. Didn't really like Kevin Kline's version of the father either, felt like that was a miscast.

Overall, the movie was entertaining and had a magical feel to it although it did fall short in some areas. 6.5/10 for me

7 years 1 month ago

iago-rotten

Too much 3D - to redraw the cartoon would have been much easier and cheaper, so what was the point of making a movie then? Nothing that they "modeled" was any better or more innovative than the French version with Vincent Cassel - La belle et la bête (2014). I'd rather watch same actors on stage in actual decorations, in an ordinary musical version of this.
Shame that Dan Steven's face was covered by 3D facade, hence make-up would have been cheaper and more realistic. Going back to my previous point.
The script was terrible, I don't know how they managed to make dialogues even shorter and shallower than in the original cartoon, which had a much shorter run time. I mean I know it's for kids, but kids don't get silent staring-contest scenes, they need words. Which is, probably, why Watson seems so puppet like in most of her scenes - I mean she barely has lines at all, all she does is smiling and staring into the air, where something 3D hovers.
I know 3D effects are cool, epic and awe-striking and all that shit, but ironically they kill the reality of what's happening. And although Disney followed the original cartoon scene by scene, they absolutely lost the magic of the "magic" and of the story behind all this glittery shiny overly complicated objects.
Luke Evans is a great Gaston and sings very well, thank you very much.
All in all, they had a great cast, not the worst singing, horrible french accent courtesy of Mr McGregor, they had many great ambitions but unfortunately didn't fulfill like 70% of them. But they made a lot of money and I am very happy for them.

6 years 10 months ago

John Milton

I couldn't help it, kind of loved it. Without the kind of, actually. And I don't really care that much for musicals, and haven't seen the Disney classic since I saw it as a boy in the cinema. They really made it work. I'm actually impressed.

7 years ago

NourNasreldin

I completely agree with all the comments regarding the added scenes and all. However, I disagree with those who criticize Watson's performance saying it's monotonous and such because Belle's character isn't one that gets angry easily and shows it. She's reasonable, she's smart and she calculates everything before doing it. The fact that she doesn't show emotion on her face is due to the fact that her character requires her to act as such.

7 years ago

chunkylefunga

Not as good as the cartoon but not a bad effort overall.

Emma Watson was a total miscast in acting style, singing ability (autotune much?) and let's be honest she doesn't have the right look either.

On the plus I enjoyed the back stories that this movie added. Throwing in random black people into the village doesn't count as diversity Disney! The cartoon has one black supporting actor and this version only has two. Hardly worthy of a pat on the back that you've been boasting about.

6 years 9 months ago

Adamov10

meh

6 years 11 months ago

greenhorg

Wait... how is it a punishment to be some wicked man-bear with badass devil horns? It's not like it hurts his sex appeal; all women are degenerate furries just like Belle. His servants are the ones who have to be forks and books and shit... and then they all die and he gets to live!

Sign me up for that "curse".

6 years 9 months ago

Torgo

It's ironic: I've seen this just after Fantastic Beasts, the recent Harry Potter spin-off, and found this Disney tale to feel more magical. It's dark, yet wholesome polished-beautiful kitsch and not bad at that.
1 point more from me if it wasn't drawn out beyond two hours by some of the inescapable singing .. :p

3 years 1 month ago

Clara Bow

Emma Watson was completely wrong for this part. Her acting is stiff, bland, and unemotional. Her singing is terrible, and her look is wrong. Someone like Lily Collins would've fit the part much better.

5 years 8 months ago

JennyPearl

Emma Watson can't sing or act... Just watch the original

6 years ago

JG94

(removed by mod: please post in English)

7 years ago

Hunziker

From the guy who brought you Twilight: Breaking Dawn, comes Twilight: This Time Just with the Wolf Dude.

7 years 1 month ago

Siskoid

I'm not one of those people who remembers the Beauty and the Beast animated classic with any real fondness - I just wasn't the right age - really, I barely remember it at all. So the live action blockbuster wasn't going to be a game of comparing the two for me (though others did fill me in). It did highlight why I much prefer live action to animation as a medium though. Not simply because it's a conversation from the latter to the former, but because there's still a lot of animation IN IT. Therein lines its greatest weakness, actually. Oh, the objects are fine, and though on the baroque side, rather effective, but the Beast and the wolves are subpar, a far cry from Disney's latest Jungle Book. You always know you're looking at CG. The live action elements, however, impressed me with their choreography and acting, and there's a tendency in live action, perhaps because you're dealing with real actors, to give the characters a sounder psychology so as not to be, wait for it, cartoonish. Well, that's one of the film's best traits, making the love story more believable, giving Belle more agency, and actually affording LeFou a proper arc. Some have reported annoyance at the "autotune" in Emma Watson's voice. I don't really hear it, but this does hark back to older musicals where the voices are visibly dubbed as opposed to recorded on set (which has perhaps started to become the new standard, explaining the ire?). Anyway, surprisingly funny and at times touching, despite the so-so CG.

7 years ago