Beauty and The Beast

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I loved the remake of Cinderella.

Beauty and the Beast was amazing. A bit dark in some places but I loved it.

I liked it. I agree Emma Watson hasn't the best singing voice and was autotuned to death, but I thought she was very pretty. She stood out as a natural beauty surrounded by all the heavily made up girls in the village who wanted to marry Gaston (who was brilliant!).
I thing I preferred it slightly to Cinderella, but I hate the story of Cinderella and love BATB so I might be bringing my own prejudices to it. I think they did kind of address the Stockholm syndrome, as {{SPOILERS}}

she chose to be imprisoned instead of her father, then could have escaped, but chose again to help the beast, then chose to come back to rescue him. She wasnt really imprisoned for very long. She escaped so easily, she could have gone at any time. We have loads of stories of knights going to rescue princesses from castles, why cant a woman go to rescue her father from a castle?

Aside from the Stockholm syndrome question, my main problem is that the movie literally opens with Belle longing for adventure and to see the world.

Then fast-forward to the end of the film, she has fallen in love with a prince who lives nearby. Sure he has a massive library, but there's no indication that they're about to go off and see the world or anything. For all we know Belle is still spending her life in that town, just in a slightly nicer house!

Maybe not in keeping with the animation, but I'd have liked if the end showed them going off to see the world or something

Yes that would have been good! I didn't think of that! She's just turned from a bright independent girl into a social climber

As my friend said afterwards, it's often hard for a bloke to carry off a bob. They should also have let Dan Stevens have a manly beard for the final scenes.

I loved this and so did my six year old daughter.

The horns were a bit much though. They were way too...goaty. And how did he lay on his side on the pillow with a bloody great horn in the way?

I don't like Disney at all. I prefer Bourne tbh BUT we took the dc to see this today. They adored it. 5yo ds was entranced. He clapped, cheered and gasped.

I thought it was fabulous. In fact, I'd watch it again tomorrow.

I wanted to love it but I didn't sadly. Special FX were amazing. Make up on Beast was fabulous. gaston stunning but I didn't take to Emma being Belle, nor what's his face when he turned human. I came away just feeling very flat about the whole thing. A bit gutted really.

I loved the Cinderella - I was quite disappointed with Beauty and the Beast.

I think it was a carbon copy of the animation, and that's what was disappointing.

Cinderella gave us a little more

I am a Disney animation fan, and the original animation is one of their strongest films. I saw it in the cinema when it was first released, and have loved it ever since.

I was not a fan of the live action Cinderella or Maleficent. Maleficent looked so amazing in the trailers, but I watched it waiting for it to get good. It never did, and it actually made me angry I hated it so much.

So, I was not too bothered about seeing this Beauty and the beast. But, I saw it last night and really enjoyed it. I love dramatic/tragic musicals any way. I loved Phantom of the opera and Les Miserables, even though both of those films also had problems. Sure, this film has some problems, but I found myself being very forgiving of them and just enjoying the visuals and the music.

it's a wonderful fairytale, Emma is so beautiful

Finally went to see it yesterday with DD, 6 and DS, 8. We all loved it, DS was the most gripped.

So surprised to realise the teapot was Emma Thompson! I was like, whose is that 'My Fair Lady' accent?! 😂

Gaston didn't do it for me at all. Loved Le Fou, though.

And I thought Emma was just ideal for the part. I'm not a big Harry Potter fan - saw the first one many years ago, and so didn't have any preconceived ideas about her from that.

She is lovely looking, and seemed to me to be just right - bookish, a bit left-field, but sure of herself.

And another one very disappointed when the hulking Beast fell away and Belle was left with Matthew feckin' Crawley - disappointed!!

Finally got round to seeing this today with my DS. I wasn't convinced by what I'd seen of the characters in the adverts but I actually loved it. We both shed a few tears! I thought Maurice and Gaston were really well cast.