Synopsis
Be our guest.
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
2017 Directed by Bill Condon
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
Emma Watson Dan Stevens Luke Evans Josh Gad Kevin Kline Hattie Morahan Haydn Gwynne Gerard Horan Ray Fearon Ewan McGregor Ian McKellen Emma Thompson Nathan Mack Audra McDonald Stanley Tucci Gugu Mbatha-Raw Clive Rowe Thomas Padden Rita Davies D.J. Bailey Adrian Schiller Harriet Jones Adam Mitchell Tom Turner Michael Jibson Zoe Rainey Daisy Duczmal Jolyon Coy Jimmy Johnston Show All…
Nick Gottschalk Elaine Kusmishko James Foster Mike Stallion Mark Swain Ashley Winter Will Coubrough Patricia Johnson
Thomas Nittmann Jeremy Hollobon Gayle Munro Glen Pratt Kelly Port Graham Martin Richard R. Hoover Dale Newton Ian Blum Denise O'Neill Spencer Cook Bruno Nicko Sabrina Gagnon David Derwin Kyle McCulloch David Piombino
Bukuroshja dhe bisha, A Bela e a Fera, 미녀와 야수, La Bella y la Bestia 2017, Beauty and the Beast 2017
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,…
hard to hate something so endearingly clumsy, even if it is mostly lumbering and uninspired—worth it, however, for the part where the cgi monstrosity transforms into a long-haired, clean-shaven dan stevens & multiple moms shouted "wew!"
there's a bit after the prince turns human again when belle asks how he feels about growing a beard and he growls at her, and for a moment i honestly wished i were dead
For a film about inner beauty it is ironically obsessive about how it looks and not about what it has to say.
Tale as old as time
Told twelve times before
Now we're strapped for cash
Time for a rehash
Remake it once more
Always just the same
Never a surprise
Always as before
And ever just as sure
As the sun will rise
Just a little change
Small to say the least
So that they can say
It had to be remade
Beauty and the Beast
The opening musical number gave me the same feeling I had during the entirety of La La Land.
Movies with an over-bloated production design are becoming my bread and butter.
Emma Watson was the perfect choice for Belle.
Usually I hate Josh Gad, but I really enjoyed him in this movie.
Luke Evans was incredibly entertaining as Gaston.
The voice acting was incredible across the board. Sir Ian McKellen and Ewan McGregor knock it out of the park.
All of the musical numbers are an absolute blast. I want to see this movie again just so I can see all the musical numbers again.
I wasn't a big fan of how The Beast looked. But Dan Stevens gave a really good performance as him.
As far as I'm concerned Beauty and the Beast is the best live-action Disney film thus far.
emma watson: can't really sing, isn't that charismatic, but is really pretty, white, and famous
disney: OH WOW BIG NUT!!?!?!!😍😍💰💰💰🙌🏻🙌🏻 we found our Belle!!! 💦💦
I liked some things about Maleficent. I was impressed with parts of Jungle Book. But I have yet to see any convincing artistic or aesthetic reason that Disney's heavy-handed, garish remakes of its animated classics need to exist at all, and this strident, tiresome behemoth of a film is a case in point for why. I understand there are people out there with kids who don't know the songs by heart, and for them, it's a different experience entirely, and they're welcome to it. But I saw this in an IMAX screen full of people my age who were clearly raised on the 1991 animated version, and still came away vocally, performatively enthused about this film, and I could not…
I'm a more convincing romantic lead than this guy, and this is somehow even more transparently anti-feminist than the original in its throwaway meme-ready half-assed wokeness. She's smart in this one! Fuck off.
I just want to stress that the FINAL SHOT of this movie is of Stanley Tucci smiling like a maniac in order to show off his new false teeth because he became a piano under the curse and all of his keys fell out and so he regenerated as a human WITHOUT ANY TEETH.
this film gets a higher rating than it should bc we watched it on our second date. also ewan mcgregor <3
On it's own rights it's ok. Nicely done from a cinematographic perspective.
Mostly disturbed though at the "Hey kidnapping is ok if I can get you to fall in love with me" theme. The old Disney movies are such trash under the hood.
queen emma watson is the prettiest woman ever!!! she's beauty she's grace she's perfect. just your another disney princess story.
Emma Watson simply IS a Disney Princess.
I found some of the live action character designs to be a little unpleasing (notably Lumière).
I was happy to see a new storyline added so I wasn't getting a carbon copy of the original.
i honestly love this movie so much and it makes me cry every time,, and im especially sad right now since emma is apparently retiring 😭 the score is so perfect, the casting for belle is perfect, but i wished they didn't autotune emma’s voice, im sure her voice was still beautiful without it. i also wished the dress was more, more? idk the animated one is so pretty and i was hoping for something a little bit more golden and detailed, with a cinderella (2015) type transformation. but that’s just me nitpicking.
belle is literally one of my favorite characters and i think emma was meant to play her.
The acting was a bit shit but the quality of the animation was very realistic and very well done, especially in “be our guest” scene. The songs are what really makes the movie good. If the speech was less dramatised and looked more natural, it would be a 5
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