Instal the new Beauty and the Beast10/16/2023 ![]() Oh, and then there’s Gaston (Luke Evans), who wants Belle to marry him and is also just a walking, talking overreaction. Beauty and the Beast is like Pay it Forward, only with unnecessary overreactions. Belle then shows up to free her father, and then for her trouble she gets put away for life. See, this also seems like an overreaction. Then when poor Maurice (Kevin Kline) tries to take a rose from outside the Beast’s castle to bring back home to his daughter, Belle (Emma Watson), the Beast sentences Maurice to life in prison. Of all the people cast with a spell, he seemed to get the best option – which doesn’t really seem fair.) I’d much rather be turned into an insanely strong and agile lion-human than turned into a talking teacup. (Also, his friends seemed to get the worst of the deal. But the spell she casts on him, turning the prince into a beast, and turning his friends and employees into inanimate objects, seems like an overreaction. Sure, Prince Adam (here played by Dan Stevens) is a jerk to the enchantress who is dressed up like an old woman. My biggest takeaway with the whole Beauty and the Beast story is that there are a lot of overreactions. Also, just by writing its title, I now have it stuck in my head.) It really was amazing how a pop song used to be able to blanket the landscape with movie promotion. ![]() (The thing I remember most from that period of time was that the Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson version of the “Beauty and the Beast” song was unavoidable. For fans of the 1991 Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast (and, my goodness, there are a lot more of those people than I ever realized) the new live action version should certainly satisfy any of those Beast hunger pangs that have been stirring for the last 26 years.
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