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Rating:  - An entirely captivating masterpiece!
It's definitely one of the best animated features of all time. I mean it was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar that it really deserved! An Enchanting tale, catchy songs, magnificent scenes, and a whole line of lovable timeless characters. Also one of Disney's biggest box-office hits, Beauty and the Beast is loved by both children and adults. Just like "Snow white and the 7 dwarfs" it deserves to be in all-time great lists and just like "The Lion King" it deserves to be a top 10 Box-Office Hit! Thing is this feature is even better on Imax. Imagine a 3-D (almost Monsters Inc. type) Beauty and the Beast film. The whole saga is made to fall in love with. If you don't enjoy the story, you'll enjoy the songs at least. If you hate the songs you'll love the characters- and so on! It's like the classical Disney cartoons- funny but moving. It's sad but at the same time suspenseful. Beauty and the Beast is definitely one of my all-time favourite films. Boy can the singers sing! And the OST LP? Boy-just listen to Celine Dion's serene voice in the title track! Words fail me (in the good way). It's timeless- it's a perfect masterpiece. If you loved the Lion King, you'll love this. It's a treat to watch it again on the big screen! Even with all the computerized animated features collecting big bucks at the Box-office- Beauty and the Beast stands high above all others. The story revolves around a cold-hearted prince who refuses to help a fairy disguised as an old woman. As a result the fairy turns the prince into an ugly beast lost forever in his 'magical' castle where the rose petals count the days until he finally dies unless someone can fall in love with him as a beast. Then the story starts with Belle- a sweet lovable character that loves to read and sing. The film introduces all the characters as they show Belle's father arriving at the Beast's castle for help and Belle going on a 'mission' to save her dear old daddy. This isn't a spoiler so I won't tell you the rest! In short the main question is, can Belle actually fall in love in the ruthless Beast? It's worth the purchase because it's a magnificent musical, a spectacular show, it has comedic characters, and it's overall a fantastic feature!
Rating: - True as it can be
Regarded by many as the greatest animated film of all time, Disney's classic "Beauty And The Beast" is a majestic and exhilarating movie experience. It's a film so amazing, so spectacular, it received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture - an historic first for an animated feature film.This "tale as old as time" follows the story of Belle, a bright young woman with a vivid mind, who longs for "something more than the provincial life" than she experiences in her small hometown village in France. Because of her ambition and her longing for exploration and adventure, she is misunderstood by the other townsfolk. And also, due to her being the most beautiful girl in town, she has attracted the attention of the handsome, yet unkind, selfish, arrogant, and vain Gaston, the local hearth-throb. One day, after yet again spurning the affections of Gaston, an unusual set of circumstances finds Belle imprisoned in the castle of a (seemingly) fearsome beast. With the help of the castle's delightful staff, a teapot named Mrs Potts, her teacup son Chip, a candelabra named Lumiere, and a clock named Cogsworth, romance blossoms between these two unlikely friends and Belle soon sees beyond the beast's ugly appearance to the gentle and kind soul that he possesses and learns the most important lesson of all - that true beauty lies within the heart and the soul and not the skin. Indeed, that is a lesson that the viewer learns as well. Embraced, beloved, and celebrated by moviegoers worldwide when it was released theatrically in the early 1990's, "Beauty And The Beast" will enchant you, delight you, and captivate both young and old viewers alike with it's Oscar winning music (Best Score and Best Original Song), awesome animation, and a cast of the most lovable and memorable Disney characters the screen has ever seen (except of course, for those seven little men!)
Rating: - A breathtaking, sweeping Disney masterpiece
with its breathtaking visuals and sweeping story, "Beauty and the Beast" deserves to be at the top of the best animated films of all time, alongside "The Secret of NIMH" and "The Little Mermaid."The story and initial impact not affected by the musical sequence that Disney added in for the special 2002 release, "Beauty and the Beast" is the classic story of a beautiful, kind girl who finds a heart of gold in a hardened man whose cruelty earns him cursed to be a beast, until he can find true love before his twenty-first birthday, or he will be cursed to remain a beast for all time. The story is impeccably written and the voice actors (Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury, etc) imbue their characters with life, spunk and character. With its gorgeous animation, incredible voice acting, solid morals and flawless story; it's not surprising that it garnered a 1991 Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and won Academy Awards for some of the songs written. My advice, see it before or when it comes out on the Platinium Edition VHS and DVD {...} to fully appreciate the love and work into creating this. If you like it, buy both the VHS and DVD. The DVD is especially to die for, because it features documentaries into "Beauty and the Beast", the original and new version of the film, both of which have been restored to their original brilliance; and other good stuff. Buy it, rent it, I don't care, but see it. It is worth the money to relive this masterpiece over and over. Worth every penny.
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