YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

SnoopyStyle Corporate lawyer Catherine Chandler (Linda Hamilton) works for her father's big law firm. She's mistakenly kidnapped and brutally slashed in the face. She's dumped in the park left for dead. Vincent (Ron Perlman) rescues her and treats her in the underground world. His 'father' Jacob Wells (Roy Dotrice) objects. She returns to the above world and joins the NYDA office. She becomes a trusted helper to the residents of the underground world and feels connected to Vincent. Joe Maxwell (Jay Acovone) is a deputy D.A.It's a new take on the old classic. Hamilton is a compelling heroine. She has enough femininity to be romantic but also enough power to fight. The show is a bit restricted in its structure. The central relationship has one mode and cannot be changed easily. I like in particular the Gothic nature of the show. It is melodramatic at times and the romanticism gets heavy. The balance between romanticism and action is not always easy. By the second season, the balance is off. Hamilton leaves after two seasons and the show loses its raison d'être.

Fizgig777 The beauty of this show is multidimensional. On the surface, yes, a love story between two people who fate brought together and their fight to hold onto a love that people wouldn't understand or accept. But there are so many deeper meanings to many of the episodes -- which probably played a large role in dooming the show. In order to understand these nuances you had to be willing to allow yourself to be pulled into the story, while also having a real grasp to the complexity behind the main characters. The stories, poetry and imagery used in the episodes told a story within a story; extended the story beyond the mere visual details and really gave you pause to think.It also showed -- for those who took the time to really see -- that love isn't always about carnal desires. It showed that sometimes loving someone means that you have to give up everything. For anyone who has known what true, deep love means, they can relate to the heavy price love can exact. This wasn't a story about fly-by-night or whirlwind romance... It was about those quite moments in a loving relationship where people can just enjoy the quiet moments and be fulfilled... In many ways, it was the story of what love should be. The fact that real intimate moments between Catherine and Vincent were left to insinuation, implication, and imagination was no accident -- it was brilliant.Unfortunately, the two main characters were so well linked with each other, that once L. Hamilton left the show there was no saving it. The way the story of Catherine and Vincent was told made it so the two characters were so completely linked that losing one would change the other so completely that the show would have to completely change around the remaining character in order for the show to survive. When Linda left, the whole premise of the show went with her because, as loyal followers of the story could attest to, Vincent could never love another. They did try to introduce another character like Catherine, but the chemistry and bond just never worked out. Plus, once father and son were reunited, it was the natural end point to the story...This show still has a lot of followers because of the uniqueness of it. The depth of the story and complexity of those deeper meanings are so fascinating that you want to watch the episodes again and again... And you will usually come away with new tidbits, deeper understanding, things that really make you think and analyze things every time you watch some of the episodes.

jjjwillis-1 Beauty and the Beast was amazing..I discovered it all over again recently I bought the 3-disk, and I watch an episode each week...just for fun. I always notice something else interesting. Catherine and Vincent are entertaining. It's nothing more than that. With the music, the poetry, and even the dilemmas Catherine gets herself into. Vincent is kind,loving and his voice...okay, as a woman, you'd have to be numb to not just be happy when he talks. I'd love a remake...but Ron Perlman has to be Vincent...and Catherine...I don't know how they'd handle her role.... Perhaps a movie based on what could have been...and Vincent and Catherine could be older. Hey...it could work. Long live B and B.

c-macafee Beauty and the Beast is a heart-scalding love story, and Ron Perlman portrays a man hopelessly in love with a veracity that goes straight to women's hearts. When he yearns and aches, we feel it. But this is also a myth about the uses of violence and the subordination of violence to civilisation. The authors of the series do not shrink from these profound issues. Many fans hate the third series and resent the introduction of the new heroine, Diana, in place of Cathy Chandler, but for me the third series succeeds with regard to the most important issue: the issue of violence. Cocteau's 'La Belle et La Bête' was the inspiration for the series. That film brings out the full mythic power of the story. When Cocteau's Beast becomes human he has the features of the irresponsible young man who loves the heroine. That is to say, the lover and the beast are the same person - man is a beast until tamed by the love of woman. Our species' self-domestication is the story of civilisation.The symbolism of Vincent's antique clothing is important. It's commented on sometimes - the Irish author has those wonderful lines, that Vincent could have ridden with Cuchulain or sailed with Theseus, and the painter asks what century he has stepped out of. The answer is: out of a brutal, heroic age. The Warrior belongs to a time when each embattled little community had to be armed to the teeth to protect itself against every other little community. Jacob Wells has some understanding that he has recreated this primitive situation in the tunnel world, and has placed this burden on Vincent - it comes out clearly when one of the tunnel dwellers simply wants Vincent to go and murder the family of violent intruders who move into the tunnels.The heroine of the first two series, Cathy Chandler, needs Vincent as a protector - as she admits to Jacob Wells, she brought out the worst in him as well as the best, by getting into situations where he had to resort to violence to protect her. The symbolism of Lancelot is very relevant: Lancelot is a knight not a king. Cathy and Vincent discuss Lancelot at one point and Vincent says that he is flawed (without mentioning that the flaw is his seduction of the queen). The chess figure that Vincent gives to the boy intruder is the queen's knight, as is the chess piece modelled on Vincent that one of the tunnel dwellers carves. Vincent also uses chess pieces to illustrate the point that his rival Elliot is the king of the world above, placing the king beside the queen.With Cathy not around in the third series to tame the Beast - and perhaps unable to do it, as she actually needs his violent protection - the idea of giving him a baby is perfect. Just a pity that the writers couldn't have made the consummation more convincing and/or satisfying - either the couple gave themselves to each other, or he lost control and ripped her clothes off in the cave. The way it is done makes it seem that she ravished him. But let that pass.The relationship with Diana, the new love interest in the third series, is well thought out. In order for Vincent to be released from the responsibility of dealing out violent summary justice, the rule of law has to take over from him, and Diana does this when she kills the villain Gabriel (somewhat extra-judicially, but the symbolism is right). Just to make it absolutely explicit, the extra out-of-sequence episode 'The Reckoning' returns to the vigilante theme that was explored early in the first series. Diana actively intervenes to remove that responsibility from Vincent and place it where it belongs in a state of civilisation - with those licensed by society as a whole to perform violence.The role that Vincent played with Cathy is reversed with Diana - she tends Vincent when he is near death, she has an uncanny insight into his feelings, she finds and rescues him when he is in peril. Vincent will always have the potential to be a one-man army, but by the end he has conquered the beast inside himself. He is now truly human, a different person from the Beast that loved and was loved by Cathy. Jacob begins to bow out and Vincent emerges as king of the underworld. The king deserves a queen. Diana is an ice queen, a woman who has seen and understood terrible things. She needs Vincent - and perhaps even more, the baby - to open her heart to warmth and love again. And it's satisfying, finally, to see Vincent actively courting a woman, as he does with Cathy only in the first episode, letting that rock star magnetism radiate.