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Hi all!
I love Beauty and the beast, it`s great!
But I have never watced
Belle's Magical World or Enchanted Christmas..
Are they real sequels or just added animation to the real movie??

Ok, here it goes:

Beauty and the Beast, The Enchanted Christmas
This movie begins with Mrs. Potts recalling a Christmas that Belle spent with them while they were under the spell. The chronology is a little sketchy, as this is actually a "midquel", but the result is very entertaining, making it one of the better DTV sequels.

Belle's Magical World
Re-released this year as "Beauty and the Beast, Belle's Magical World" this a collection of three stories that happened while Belle was staying at the castle. Never seen it myself, but they say it's pretty bad...

Belle's Tales of Friendship
This is a collection of three stories (two espisodes of the old "Sing me a Story", and one new animated sequence) tied together with live-action intersitial of Lindsay McLeod playing Belle.
The new sequence, "Mrs. Potts' Party", was added to this year's SE re-release of Belle's Magical World.

Disney considers Enchanted Christmas Beauty and the Beast II and Belle's Magical World Beauty and the Beast III, but there's messed up logic in that. Enchanted Christmas takes place somewhere around the "Something There" sequence of the original, when Christmas hits the castle. It *COULD* be considered a sequel since the beginning and ending of Enchanted Christmas take place after the first movie, with everyone in human form. Belle's Magical World takes place during the film, though it doesn't specify where. Unlike Enchanted Christmas, Belle's Magical World is made up of 3 mini stories strung together, like Cinderella II. Here are some DVD reviews of both, so you can get more of an idea of what both films are like:

http://www.dvdmg.com/enchantedchristmasse.shtml

http://www.dvdmg.com/bellesmagicalworld.shtml

Hope that helps!

Ok thx for the help!

I think that there are now 4 sequences in Belle's Magical World because they added in Mrs. Potts' Party. I watched the trailer for it and gagged. I'm glad I only bought the first one (I was going to buy all three but then stuck with the first).

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