Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 129m
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline (also Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen and Emma Thompson as assorted household objects)
Synopsis:
Bookworm Belle lives with her clockmaker father in a benighted village surrounded by forested hills. When she asks that he bring her back a rose from his journey one day, he implicates them both in a spell cast by an enchantress over a prince and his domains.
Review:
The 'beauty is only skin deep' moral is given renewed Disney live-action treatment, and is subjected to very Disneyesque double standards (Belle only kisses the beast chastely on the forehead until he becomes a prince again; Luke Evans's foppishly conceited Captain becomes out-and-out villain when occasion demands). The songs are tuneless and insipid, the animated production numbers emetically hyperbolic, and Watson makes for a pallid and anachronistic Belle while Stevens pouts and stomps as the beast. Next to Maleficent this is a flat concoction indeed.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 129m
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline (also Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen and Emma Thompson as assorted household objects)
Synopsis:
Bookworm Belle lives with her clockmaker father in a benighted village surrounded by forested hills. When she asks that he bring her back a rose from his journey one day, he implicates them both in a spell cast by an enchantress over a prince and his domains.
Review:
The 'beauty is only skin deep' moral is given renewed Disney live-action treatment, and is subjected to very Disneyesque double standards (Belle only kisses the beast chastely on the forehead until he becomes a prince again; Luke Evans's foppishly conceited Captain becomes out-and-out villain when occasion demands). The songs are tuneless and insipid, the animated production numbers emetically hyperbolic, and Watson makes for a pallid and anachronistic Belle while Stevens pouts and stomps as the beast. Next to Maleficent this is a flat concoction indeed.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 129m
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline (also Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen and Emma Thompson as assorted household objects)
Synopsis:
Bookworm Belle lives with her clockmaker father in a benighted village surrounded by forested hills. When she asks that he bring her back a rose from his journey one day, he implicates them both in a spell cast by an enchantress over a prince and his domains.
Review:
The 'beauty is only skin deep' moral is given renewed Disney live-action treatment, and is subjected to very Disneyesque double standards (Belle only kisses the beast chastely on the forehead until he becomes a prince again; Luke Evans's foppishly conceited Captain becomes out-and-out villain when occasion demands). The songs are tuneless and insipid, the animated production numbers emetically hyperbolic, and Watson makes for a pallid and anachronistic Belle while Stevens pouts and stomps as the beast. Next to Maleficent this is a flat concoction indeed.