Beauty and the Beast Review [9.2/10]
Beauty and the Beast - Review
Review by nj.com
How do you get people to pay a second time for a product they’ve already bought once? And to pay even more?
It’s a marketing challenge, all right — but one that Hollywood is happy to tackle this year, as films from “Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace” to “Titanic” are being re-released with an extra dimension and an additional charge.
But are the films any better?
We have the year ahead of us to gauge that, although I suspect James Cameron will make sure that “Titanic” looks even more spectacular — and that having Jar Jar’s dreadlocks in your face is going to make “The Phantom Menace” even more insufferable.
Review by The Charlotte Observer
That “tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme” returns to the screen, now in 3-D. But “Beauty and the Beast,” the greatest animated film ever made and one of the screen’s great musicals, hardly needs this sort of sprucing up.
A timeless French fairytale about a cruel young man cursed to live as a beast in his enchanted home if he cannot change and be worthy of another’s love, it features sparkling wit, lovely songs, stunning animation, terrific vocal performances by Paige O’Hara and Robby Benson as the leads, and just enough Disney cute to earn that over-used label “masterpiece.”
There’s marvelous new depth of field to the images – flowers or rain or snow in the foreground – in many scenes.
Review by Toronto.com
If you loved Beauty and the Beast when you first saw it — either on a multiplex screen or on a battered VHS copy at some kid’s birthday party — then you’re more than likely to love it again in 3D, opening Friday across the GTA.
This new version is definitely a kinder, gentler form of multi-dimensional animation. The screen isn’t turgidly dark, the Beast’s tongue doesn’t wrap around the theatre and you can concentrate on the classic story and lovely songs by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, always one of the film’s best features.
The 3D effects, in fact, create a kind of pleasurably old-school effect reminiscent of pop-up books from childhood, which is totally appropriate.
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