![]() ![]() But that also results in another fault of this film: Condon is unwilling to take any risks with the 1991 material. Those old songs really hold up and the actors seem to be having a great time performing them. Where the movie really works is when it is mirroring the animated movie. None of these segments nor the songs that accompany them add anything of importance or entertainment value to the original tale, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who found these bits of the movie to be rather flat and uninteresting. There's also some additional material covering the Beast (Dan Stevens, although mostly CGI throughout), as viewers learn that his mother died at a young age and his father didn't raise him right (which is why he got cursed in the first place). ![]() The expanded plot now takes a look into the background of Belle's (Emma Watson) parentage, telling us more about her mother and giving her father (Kevin Kline) a much larger role than he had in the animated film. The new story bits are largely uninteresting and none of the new songs hold a candle (pardon the pun, Lumiere) to the old 1991 songs that get reprised in this movie. The difference in Condon's movie is that they've taken the story from the 84-minute animated movie and expanded on it with new background into characters and new songs to give this updated Beauty and the Beast a bloated running time of over two hours. I'm going to make the assumption that most of the readers here are familiar with the story of the 1991 animated film, and won't rehash that here – just to say that this new movie mirrors that plot almost exactly. ![]() It's basically a well-made and quite watchable homage, but ultimately one we really didn't need. However, it also doesn't add anything of note. ![]() What could they possibly do to improve on the original? Well, the good news is that thanks to Director Bill Condon and a group of well-casted actors, this new version doesn't insult the original movie in any way, shape, or form. When Disney announced they were making a live-action version of their animated classic Beauty and the Beast, I'm sure I'm not the only one who cringed at the idea. ![]()
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