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Beauty and the Beast

2017 Directed by Bill Condon

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A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic 'Beauty and the Beast' tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.

Emma Watson Dan Stevens Luke Evans Kevin Kline Josh Gad Ewan McGregor Stanley Tucci Audra McDonald Gugu Mbatha-Raw Ian McKellen Emma Thompson Nathan Mack Hattie Morahan Adrian Schiller Gerard Horan Haydn Gwynne Ray Fearon Clive Rowe Thomas Padden Alexis Loizon Jimmy Johnston Dean Street Michael Jibson Zoe Rainey Jolyon Coy Rudi Goodman Henry Garrett Harriet Jones Sophie Reid Show All…

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Review by Lucy ★½ 19

i honestly can't remember the last time i was so uninterested in a movie
Review by Julius ★½ 19

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,…
Review by josh lewis🌹 ★★½ 6

hard to hate something so endearingly clumsy and well-meaning, 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!"
Review by Arielrocks5 ★★★★ 44

This is the hardest review I've had to write ever since I joined this website.....

Last night, I spent over three hours attempting to put something together that made any semblance of coherent sense, but spent most of the time crying in my bed, struggling to face the fact that no matter what I'll say, people will still say I'm wrong for my opinion....

As many of you know by now, due to my recently publicized opinion, I've never had a strong connection to the original "Beauty and the Beast" as most of the world does. In my life time, the amount of times I've seen it is a grand total of, three or so.

Once when I was really…
Review by Evan ★★★½ 3

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.
Review by erika ★★★ 10

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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

Recent reviews

Review by Tom Gueli ★★★½

I was surprised by how much I liked this, given how little attachment I had to the original and how much this movie seems to be leaning on that animated version more than most of the other Disney live-action remakes of their animated classics I've seen so far. Still, it does enough different and new to feel like it at least mostly justifies its reason for existing and it also knows enough to not dump the best material from the Disney animated film on the floor. I liked it...

...but can someone either just say "Oh that Belle, being from England, she's weird" or tell Emma Watson that the movie is set in France? Because everyone has French accents, and she saunters in all Hermione and it's confusing.
Review by Tommy Pedersen ★★★★

So can i wife Emma Watson now?
Review by Ken ★★½

It's fine, but why watch this when the animated one is... right... there...
Review by Víttor ★★★

Cute film, but I was expecting for more. Three stars for Emma Thompson, "How Does a Moment Last Forever" by Celine Dion and an important gay moment which is going to remark Disney forever.
Review by eva ★★★

Hostia si se parece a Jesús
Review by A. Paulo Ferreira ★★★

No seu todo resulta num filme excessivo mas inegavelmente esmerado em todos os aspetos técnicos e sobretudo os mais visualmente artísticos. Enche mesmo o olho e suspeito que amealhará alguns Oscars. Está aqui a melhor adaptação live-act da Disney!
Review by Jeremy ★★½

i feel attacked by emma watson asking the guy who played beast to grow a beard bc she's still in love with the buffalo.
Review by alicia ★★★

emma watson has the charisma/personality of a plant pot + her singing is heavily autotuned however, everything else in this movie is art
Review by kierkegaardian ★★★

I'm the kind of asshole who, five minutes in, was all "pshh, Shakespeare wasn't translated into French in this time period!" A minute later LeFou tells Gaston that Belle has a certain "je ne sais quoi" to which Gaston replies, with a strangest joke of the movie, "I don't know what that means." It's bilingual wordplay, it's a language diegesis over top of French being the language we're presuming they're already speaking, Gaston doesn't understand the language-within-a-language, and I imagine most audiences missed the (unfunny) pun.

I don't know who the writers thought this joke was for, but it isn't the only too-cute joke made worse by an air of knowing. It did fall, so fast and flat, that I…