In spite of what Disney told us, no, this does not contain an 'openly gay character'. LeFou remains closeted, and his homosexuality is only (very heavily) implied through jokey jokes. The payoff, referred to as a 'nice, exclusively gay moment' by director Bill Condon, is the lamest of these jokes and there's nothing exclusively gay about it. It comes after (and in contrast with) a whole bunch of romantic heterosexual smooching, and presents the mere idea of homosexuality as hilarious. (I wouldn't have been so critical of all this if Disney had not attempted to frame their gay jokes as progressive.)

Anyway, the movie is bullshit and unnecessary. It takes the original's tight screenplay and adds forty minutes of padding,…

There's some incredible flaws with the animation-to-live-action translation concept, but the biggest by far is the absolute basics of character design. In the original, Gaston is easily twice as big and four times the weight of anyone else in town. But having actual Luke Evans and Josh Gad next to each other, you believe that if he had a bad enough day and nothing to lose, LeFou could and would murder Gaston with little no no difficulty. It wouldn't even take him very long. They are both little more than men, after all. In the original they're barely even the same species.
Besides that, in the original character design, all the furniture-and-appliance golems have very clear concepts and features. In…