cyberjoshy-49579 What a pointless and useless copy of the animated version of the same movie. Besides a few new songs nothing has been added or changed. Every character, line of dialogue or even the shots/camera angles comes from the animated version. On top of that i found this version of Belle very unsympathetic. Her change of heart over the beast was even more unbelievable than in the previous version. Same goes for the change of the beast. 1 moment he is a brute and the next he suddenly remembers his manners. If there was ever a prime example of what a cashgrab is, this movie is it.

aliases-53334 I don't understand why they are still trying so hard to sell this aweful story of a monster man trapping a girl and kidnapping her, until she suffers stockholm syndrom, into something romantic? Would that pass if a narcissistic woman would be cursed into a monster and then trapped a young man to entertain her? Would he fall inlove with a monster and that would turn into a huge Disney success? Please...

riczell I didn't bother to see this movie in theaters, because live action movies don't exactly have the best reputation for being as good as their original cartoon versions. Now, I watched the live action not knowing what to expect. I hadn't paid much attention to the trailers, and hadn't heard anything from friends about the movie. However, I was sort of expecting something different from what I'd seen in the original, with the movie having had such a wide budget.During the first scene in the movie, I could tell right away that this was just going to be an attempt at a copy of the original. Emma Watson (playing Belle) walked down steps into town just as Belle did in the original film. She began singing, and you could hear the terrible auto-tuning right away. It was not pleasant, and sounded way too electronic to stack up to the original. All of the other songs' auto-tuning was highly noticeable as well. There didn't seem to be much life in Emma Watson's character portrayal, as well as many of the others'. Not a great way to kick off a movie.The movie gets rather boring, to the point where I stopped paying attention to it many times. I had thought that there were going to be more comedic elements between the characters in the film. If there were, they weren't noticeable. It seemed to have a much more serious tone to it than the original that I didn't expect from a Disney film.Some of the character designs were rather strange; especially Mrs. Pott's. Chip could've added more comedy to the film, but he wasn't featured very much at all. I will say, that like many other reviews, my favorite character design/portrayal was that of Gaston's. I think that went over well since the movie was so serious, and his original tone was a serious one.Now, not all of it was bad. If you're going for a romantic movie that holds a serious undertone, this is a good one to see. a lot of the scenery is great, and the castle design is wonderful, and the music without the auto-tuning was spectacular. Overall, it wasn't the worst movie I'd seen. It just wasn't what I was expecting. In my opinion, the characters are supposed to make the movie, and that was just kind of flat in this one.

Aasemoon It took me a while to find the guts to actually go ahead and watch this one. I loved the 1991 version as a kid, and I was really quite afraid that the new movie would completely ruin the magic. Especially given some of the reviews. Now that I finally have done it, I'm happy to say that I am not disappointed at all.Good story telling, good acting, and quite the appropriate amount of cheese. The movie stays entirely faithful to the original story, for which I'm really glad. It's also such a treat for the eyes and the ears that for this alone I think I'll be watching it again.