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Truly Dreadful Film
Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Glucedee
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Payno
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Arwen
Yes, the costuming and visual values are excellent. I watched this with the English dubbed in. Only Belle and the narrator make it work. It's too bad that my high school French is not good enough to let me watch it in the original French. I suspect that the actors would seem greatly improved. I do like how this version shows the father to be a self-centered coward. Even as a child it always bothered me that the father was willing to sacrifice his favorite child to save himself.
cheekyapple-56320
This blew me away. I couldn't believe how much I loved it. I have attention deficit disorder and I actually sat and watched this without doing anything else, getting up, or looking away. That almost never happens and I cannot stress that enough. The film looks stunning and has high quality camera work and art direction. The costuming is incredible. The casting and acting is top notch (truly). But what I especially appreciate and what really stood out for me and tempted me to write a review was that this was not the same scripted tale of Beauty and the Beast we have been over saturated with by Disney. This is a new story and not predictable and much more adult even. Yes there is still that question of whether Belle is just suffering from the syndrome that kidnap victims can get for their captors but at least he is smart and when they bicker it's believable there is chemistry. I recommend this and trust me that it's not the same story over again, it is quite different.
Arthur Nascimento
Beauty and The Beast might be my 2nd favorite movie of all time (I said favorite, not best). This movie seems to focus more on Beauty's family relationship and tries to make a simple fairy-tale seem epic and GG, but here's the thing: Beauty and The Beast wasn't written as a epic story, it never was meant to be one. It is simply "see beyond the appearance". I understand that the director wanted to show a more dark version of said fairy-tale and that's fine... As long as you keep your main focus on the title characters. There's a reason Belle's brothers or sisters blend with the background in the original tale. They are there solely to illustrate things. The main part is the Belle - Beast relationship that we do not get in this film. Even when the Beast turns back into the charming prince, Belle just sorta stands there mentally saying: "Eh, you are alive. Yay, I guess." My mom stayed awake til midnight to see her favorite movie and, by the end she just cursed the hell up because the movie was just disappointing to say the least. I praise it for having great costumes and astonishing set, but If you wanna get the heart of this tale, go look into the Disney version. For that movie knew where the core point lied, staying true to a aspect of the story that this 2014 version, that tried so hard to stick to the source material, missed.
Arthur Faulhaber
'La belle et la bête' (2014).First time I saw this movie I had Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' (TOP-class) too much in my mind. I disliked 'La belle et la bête' (2014). But the last one kept spinning in my head. After 3 times looking at this movie and trying to understand the French version (Dutch subtitled) I must say it is at least worth an 8-stars score. 'Two' points missing because of the too heavy 'anger wood' scenes in the end. 'Lord of the Rings' type animation. And so ending too far from the French fairytale. Other comments may be: Belle, Léa Seydoux: Typical French beauty with sad eyes. Beast, Vincent Cassel: Not the best casting choice. 'Little doggies' in the castle are weak animations. Belle's two sisters, 'too dombo' casting and too much dressed down. Holding a golden arrow in her hand on her dying ladies body is 'cheapness' and far from 'reality'.But, still for me this movie is a must have in my library.
