Storyline
Disney's animated classic takes on a new form, with a widened mythology and an all-star cast. A young prince, imprisoned in the form of a beast, can be freed only by true love. What may be his only opportunity arrives when he meets Belle, the only human girl to ever visit the castle since it was enchanted.
Writers: Stephen Chbosky, Evan Spiliotopoulos, Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Kevin Kline, Hattie Morahan, Haydn Gwynne, Gerard Horan, Ray Fearon, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Nathan Mack, Audra McDonald, Stanley Tucci, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Cast: Emma Watson -
Belle
Dan Stevens -
Beast
Luke Evans -
Gaston
Josh Gad -
LeFou
Kevin Kline -
Maurice
Hattie Morahan -
Agathe /
Enchantress
Haydn Gwynne -
Cothilde
Gerard Horan -
Jean the Potter
Ray Fearon -
Père Robert
Ewan McGregor -
Lumière
Ian McKellen -
Cogsworth
Emma Thompson -
Mrs. Potts
Nathan Mack -
Chip
Audra McDonald -
Madame Garderobe
Stanley Tucci -
Maestro Cadenza
Trivia:
When director Bill Condon first spoke to Disney about adapting Beauty and the Beast (1991), they actually weren't sure they were going to do this new version as a musical. Condon said, "With all due respect, I think you're crazy. The songs are too good. You're going to spend all this time making a huge, gorgeous live-action "Beauty and the Beast" and not do 'Be Our Guest'?" See more »
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Rating: 5/10
I was really looking forward to this film. Not only has Disney recently
made excellent live-action versions of their animated masterpieces
(Jungle Book, Cinderella), but the cast alone (Emma Watson, Ian
McKellen, Kevin Kline) already seemed to make this one a sure hit.
Well, not so much as it turns out.
Some of the animation is really cute, but because characters like
Cogsworth (the clock), Lumière (the candelabra) and Chip (the little
tea cup) now look so real, they lose a lot of their animated
predecessors' charm (I can't quite explain why that is, though). The
voice talent in some cases actually seems wasted. What really didn't
work for me, though, is the Beast. He just never looks convincing. The
eyes somehow don't look like real eyes.
I really liked Gaston, though, and the actor who played him actually
gave the perhaps most energized performance of all. Kevin Kline as
Belle's father has little to do but to look fatherly and old. Speaking
of Belle, now that I've seen the film, I think she is miscast. I think
someone like Rachel McAdams would actually have been a more lively and
perhaps a bit more feisty Belle than Emma Watson.
If you love the original, you might want to give this one a pass. It's
really not that good.
Plot
Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers herself instead and discovers her captor to be an enchanted prince.
Release Year: 1991
Rating: 8.0/10 (115,246 voted)
Director:
Gary Trousdale
Stars: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White
Storyline Belle is a girl who is dissatisfied with life in a small provincial French town, constantly trying to fend off the misplaced "affections" of conceited Gaston. The Beast is a prince who was placed under a spell because he could not love. A wrong turn taken by Maurice, Belle's father, causes the two to meet.
Writers: Linda Woolverton, Roger Allers
Cast: Paige O'Hara
-
Belle
(voice)
Robby Benson
-
Beast
(voice)
Richard White
-
Gaston
(voice)
Jerry Orbach
-
Lumiere
(voice)
David Ogden Stiers
-
Cogsworth
/
Narrator
(voice)
Angela Lansbury
-
Mrs. Potts
(voice)
Bradley Pierce
-
Chip
(voice)
(as Bradley Michael Pierce)
Rex Everhart
-
Maurice
(voice)
Jesse Corti
-
Lefou
(voice)
Hal Smith
-
Philippe
(voice)
Jo Anne Worley
-
Wardrobe
(voice)
Mary Kay Bergman
-
Babette
(voice)
Brian Cummings
-
Stove
(voice)
Alvin Epstein
-
Bookseller
(voice)
Tony Jay
-
Monsieur D'Arque
(voice)
Taglines:
The most beautiful love story ever told.
Filming Locations: Walt Disney Feature Animation - 500 S. Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, USA
Box Office Details
Budget: $25,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: AUD 455,456
(Australia)
(13 June 1992)
Gross: $347,900,000
(Worldwide)
Technical Specs
Runtime:|
(special edition)
Did You Know?
Trivia: Jesse Corti also voiced Lefou in the Latin American Spanish version of the movie.
Goofs:
Continuity:
In the shot of Belle riding up to the Beast's castle for the first time, her hood is down. In the close-up shot immediately following it, her hood is up.
Quotes:
[first lines]
Narrator:
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young prince lived in a shining castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind. But then, one winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold...
User Review
Be our guest
Rating: 10/10
Beauty and the Beast is without a doubt one of Disney's finest
classics. The first animated film to ever be nominated for best picture
and after you see it, you could understand and agree with it's
nomination. Beauty and the Beast is going to be one of those films that
will always be remembered, I know that it's a movie that I will show my
children one day. It has unbelievably terrific animation, a beautiful
story, lovable characters, and is just over all a perfect movie. I
really love this film so much, I don't think anyone couldn't fall in
love with it.
Bell is just a simple girl in her town in France, she reads books
constantly and her father is an inventor. They are sort of the outcasts
of their town due to their "oddness". But Bell is being pursued by the
town hunk, Gueston, simply because she's the one girl he cannot have.
One day when her father's inventions are about to be displayed at the
fair, he gets lost in the woods and stumbles across a castle and is
held prisoner. Bell goes after him and comes to the castle; it turns
out that her father is being held by a beast who is cursed with this
hideousness unless he finds a true love before a rose he has welts.
Bell trades places with her father; the house also has living objects,
a candle holder, a clock, a tea pot, all who are also cursed until the
curse is broken. They look at Bell as the perfect opportunity for the
beast to find a true love, but he must learn to be a gentleman, but
Bell brings out the best in him and it turns out that this might be a
happy ending after all.
This was actually the first movie that I ever cried in, the ending was
just so beautiful and heart felt, you'll have to see what I mean. The
songs are just so lovely and perfect for the scenes that they are
performed for. Beauty and the Beast, the song, was just one of the most
touching songs ever. This films is a major recommendation for me, it's
one of my favorite Disney films of all time, it's a timeless classic
that is just perfect and reached a new level of great animation.
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