Beauty and the Beast Review

If you love musicals, this movie is for you! If you love the original, then maybe you will like this live action version…

For me, neither a fan of the original nor a huge fan of musicals (except La La Land) this movie felt flat and uninspired.

Sure this is a fairy tale, but where is depth? The nuance which live action Can and should bring, like with last year’s Jungle book, which turned a pretty shallow and average cartoon movie of the 1960s into a full-fledged live action adaptation!

Beauty and the Beast fails at the basic level of narration. I won’t hold a 1991 animation to such standards, but would definitely expect the 2017 version to have more narrative juice.

There are places where it seems the main story is moving and all the side characters are standing still, doing nothing waiting for the beauty and beast’s story to move forward.

Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a bad film, but it lacks the shine that recent Disney live action remakes have had.

The sets and CGI backgrounds are amazing to look at and the dresses and costumes are impeccable.

But the creature and other character CGI looked a bit off and not as realistic as Jungle Book.

I don’t like songs and dance, so can’t judge them, but the Gaston’s one was a bit funny and pompous. The ball dance between the beast and belle is also well done, but it didn’t reach the heights of magic as was needed by the moment.

Rating : 5/10 . Not a bad film, but nothing overwhelmingly good. See it if you are a fan of the original!