Talk:Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)/@comment-31447615-20170322012208

Overall I loved the movie. I'd watch it any day, and even plan on buying the dvd, and maybe an Emma Watson doll. I am okay with it, but the cartoon still ranks a bit higher.

I'm still asking myself, "Did they really have to make it a musical, with almost the EXACT SAME SONGS as the cartoon?" This movie really didn't need the music, though I'd leave in "Be Our Guest."

My only real complaint was that it didn't have the emotional impact the cartoon did. Like, the narrator at the beginning sounded like she was just reading lines and not emoting at all. During the ballroom scene, Belle and the Beast seemed very cool towards one another, rather than showing any affection for each other. I mean, in the cartoon, they were smiling at each other, flirting non-verbally, and Belle even hugged the Beast near the end of the dance! You see NONE of that in this movie. I was also disappointed the Beast didn't do his deep and dark "Get out..." to Gaston. It's one of those epic scenes where the Beast remembered his humanity, and chose not to lower himself to Gaston's level. The death and transformation scene was also kind of flat compared to what you saw in the cartoon. It did not have the same dramatic effect, and I really feel it was missing that. So really, it's just little things that bothered me about the live-action movie.

I also wondered why Belle continued to wear peasant clothing in the castle when she was given a wardrobe fit for a princess in the cartoon. Her yellow dress was beautiful, but it looked so plain compared to what the cartoon Belle wore. The least they could have done was give her a pair of gloves and made the dress poofier. I'm also wondering why she didn't even bother to change into a practical outfit before running off to save her dad. She looked ridiculous, running about in her gown during the village mob scene, and later in her underwear, in the COLD AND SNOW at the castle.

LeFou might have actually been funny and likeable, if he weren't so fruity and "clingy," as he described himself. I actually do like the actor. He's what you'd call "adorkable," dorky, but you can't help but like him. In fact, it was not his fruity behavior or finding a male dance partner that really creeped me out in the movie. It was when the female wardrobe "attacked" the "3 stooges" as I called them (the guys who worked with Gaston) by dressing them as women. Two of them ran off, screaming in humiliation, and the third actually LIKED the outfit and winked at her! *shivers*

It's also interesting that the Enchantress hung around, pretending to be an old maid outcast, and subtly "helping" the Beast along the way. You didn't see that in the cartoon. She left him to his own devices after the curse was enacted.