Here's my review of the movie
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Part 3 The Movie
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“Beauty and the Beast” probably Disney’s most acclaimed movie since “Mary Poppins,” nominated for a record 6 Oscars, including Beast Picture (first animated movie to do so), 2 wins, also the first animated film to win Best Picture at the Golden Globes, and it also spawned a Tony Award winning stage musical. When I first watched this movie as a kid on VHS, I liked and then I watched it again on TV 2 years ago for the first time after a long time. This time I was disappointed and couldn’t understand why it got so much praise. Many consider “Beauty and the Beast” to be one of the best, if not best animated movie of all time, do I agree?
Basic plot summary: “Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers herself instead and discovers her captor to be an enchanted prince.”
After watching the movie several times on Blu-ray and now recently in theaters, my opinion has since then changed. I’ve started liking it more and more after each viewing and finally understand why it gets so much praise.
“Beauty and the Beast” is a beautiful movie about love, sacrifice, redemption, and beauty only being skin deep. The writing is smart in that it manages to tackle all of these heavy themes with humor and a certain charm. Nothing feels out of place with the overall story whether it be with the comedic battle or the heart wrenching ending. The movie starts off small and quickly builds to a more epic vibe towards the end.
Animation is gorgeous, usually considered Disney’s best. Character animation is not only fluid, but a realisticness to them. For instance Mrs. Pots has to jump onto something soft in order to go to the ground. Or how Belle pushes her hair back, its these little touches that make it so breathtaking. And the transformation scene, just sheer brilliance, it has everything that you would want in see.
Alan Menken and the late great Howard Ashman, bless his soul, created the score and songs for this movie. The music is so brilliant capturing every emotion from joyfulness to sorrow to an epic vibe. As for the songs they are equally brilliant to the music that accompany it. Lyrics are smart, catchy and have so much more meaning than what is actually being said. To pick one song as the best would be criminal, all the songs are just fantastic and they really amp up the story. These songs will last forever.
Now the characters, they are fantastic. The side characters playboy Lumiere, wind up Cogsworth, and motherly Mrs. Pots are all charming and lovable. They all have there moment to shine and actually move the story forward and never become annoying. The Beast is fantastic and has so many layers. He is mean and vicious, but at the same time through his eyes we see that he is a tortured soul. Even when he is being completely unbearable, he immediately realizes his mistakes, much credit to Glen Keane. Belle is probably considered the most feminist of all the Disney princess and I totally agree. She’s smart, has a wit, stubborn, curious, and at the same time very attractive. She is very realistic because she represents a strong female role model for girls everywhere. And the last character is Gaston, the movies villain, he’s great. He may be good looking, but he’s arrogant, self loving, and very blunt. He feels as if he can get whatever he want. It’s great seeing Gaston become more beast like and the Beast more human like as the movie progresses.
Overall, “Beauty and the Beast,” is a terrific movie and truly deserving of every accolade it receive(d)(s). While still not in my top 5, I can see why it is revered as the greatest animated movie of all time. From a enticing story, to gorgeous animation, to beautiful music, it is all top notch. I can see why it is considered the best animated film of all time. I give it 5/5, everything is just immaculate and I don’t have enough words to describe how great it is.
