04-17-2017, 11:52 AM
Because I am an excellent husband (occasionally) I took my wife.
It looked great and the sets were fantastic, and Emma Watson is very pretty. They clearly were making the minor characters and walk-ons way more ethnically diverse than the setting in Baroque France would logically allow, the first change from the cartoon one notices. Kevin Kline was an improvement over the buffoonish father in the cartoon, and they took time to explain a few things that were ignored in the cartoon (like how could she possibly put the Beast on the horse, although it still seemed a stretch for the horse to carry him IMO). They made Le Fou overtly gay instead of just implicitly, which made more sense for his devotion to Gaston. I actually found the songs a bit boring since I knew them all already (except for the two new ones added, which didn't make much of an impact). I found that live action made Gaston much more creepy and evil and less of a caricature.
Overall I'd recommend it. Take your ladies if they have a yen for it.
It looked great and the sets were fantastic, and Emma Watson is very pretty. They clearly were making the minor characters and walk-ons way more ethnically diverse than the setting in Baroque France would logically allow, the first change from the cartoon one notices. Kevin Kline was an improvement over the buffoonish father in the cartoon, and they took time to explain a few things that were ignored in the cartoon (like how could she possibly put the Beast on the horse, although it still seemed a stretch for the horse to carry him IMO). They made Le Fou overtly gay instead of just implicitly, which made more sense for his devotion to Gaston. I actually found the songs a bit boring since I knew them all already (except for the two new ones added, which didn't make much of an impact). I found that live action made Gaston much more creepy and evil and less of a caricature.
Overall I'd recommend it. Take your ladies if they have a yen for it.
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