Disney-Prinzessin For FANPOP'S Favorit DP Filme - Would Du Kommentar below with a STRONG positive oder negative opinion on BEAUTY AND THE BEAST?

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wavesurf picked Yes:
This film is usually credited ( along with The Lion King) as being the pinnacle of Disney's masterpieces. It has gorgeous music, lively secondary characters, one of Disney's most memorable villains, and, for the most part, a well-crafted plotline. (I'm not going to count the fact that the prince is 11 when the enchantress first curses him, and yet he looks like he is 21 for the entirety of the film).

The main characters are...another story. Belle is...bland. I find that Linda Woolverton may have taken just a bit too much of an extreme with Belle, and made her Josephine March's much blander cousin. Jo was up for fun, and could be fiercely independent. But Jo March wasn't a snob. Jo actually felt bad for breaking Laurie's heart. Belle is another story. Belle is outwardly disdainful of other people in her "poor provincial town" with their "provincial lives." Belle considers herself better than the townspeople for having an interest in reading and going to the bookseller. Belle thinks nothing of blowing off Gaston, with her chortle of, "I just don't deserve you, but thanks for asking!" In my opinion, Woolverton took the feisty quality of Jo out, and replaced it with cynicism and self-righteousness in Belle.

As for the beast, he is...marginally better than Belle is. He changes from being a manner-less boor into being a polite companion, showing some remorse for having treated people shabbily. Too bad that I prefer his beastly form to his..erm.. human form, where he looks a bit like Fabio Lanzoni, and about to do some butter spread. But whatever.

The supporting cast shines in BATB. (I am attached to Mrs. Potts, Chip, Lumiere, and especially Cogsworth). Gaston hams it up with Lefou and makes this movie tolerable. It's quite a shame for me that I don't think very highly of the titular pair. The thrust of the movie's focus is on them, and yet with so much screen time...I end up feeling nothing for them. I just don't care. Shame. But yeah. I do consider this a solid Disney movie masterpiece, but it is not Disney's finest outing for me. The primary characters seem (to me) to be a Feminist rewrite and a reformed jerk. I prefer people who are congenial already, and respectful of others.
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Beastlysoul25 picked Yes:
It's hard not to be bias towards my favorite movie. This was a movie that I wanted so much, but I wasn't able to until the special edition came out. Beauty and the Beast always has a special place in my heart.

I don't care what they say about Belle being bland or disdainful. She didn't want to follow the villagers' rules. She wanted to be different...and didn't care what they said about her. Belle wasn't going to be bullied into doing anything she didn't want to do. She proved that on Gaston and Beast. She refused to marry Gaston because...well he was a bully! He never deserved her! Beast was used to getting what he wanted and Belle was going to teach him a lesson...and he learned it!

There were many lessons that Beast had to learn in order to be human again. It was very difficult for him to change, but it wasn't too late. Beast/Adam had always been my favorite character because I knew what it was like to be so different and isolated from the world. One of my favorite scenes is when he destroyed his self portrait. I believed that when he destroyed it, it was proof that he wasn't going to be that horrible person he once was. He worked hard to get his human form back and he earned it. In my opinion, I think Adam is cute as a human.

Gaston and Lefou are the jerks who can't think with their skull screwed on. I find Lumiere and Cogsworth the comedy relief, always there to make someone laugh. Mrs. Potts is there to make her point across, especially with Chip. I will always see this movie as a masterpiece; nothing can change my mind about it.
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dancing_dear picked Yes:
This movie is very overhyped. The score is beautiful but thats the only thing I like about it. Some of the animation is beautiful but some is really bad. The thing that I dislike the most is how misogynistic it is. Belle is portrayed as weird because she likes to read (fairytales, she isn't a genius) the other female characters in the town are actually called bimbos (in french) and swoon over a misogynist. Belle doesn't then go on to prove her independence she falls into Stockholm syndrome and an abusive relationship is not a fairytale. I know the argument is that the Beast changes, but that is even more dangerous telling young people! That even if they are mean to you if you stay in the relationship they will change? Seriously?
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anukriti2409 picked Yes:
One of the masterpieces from Disney folio. The animation was breathtaking and stupendous. What makes it a genuinely hyped and a masterpiece to improve on animation and plot-line right after delivering a huge successful hit, TLM. To be able to deliver an entirely different set of characters and a plot and music that steals your heart. Music is serene and enchanting and exciting all at once, the range is so brilliant from Belle to Be Our Guest to Something There to Human Again to Tale as Old as Time.

What many find in Belle as boring, I find it mature. She was the first princess who was balanced on both sides. She most often projected a positive attitude but wasn't the one to suffer in silence either. She was a loner but not because she thought highly of herself but differently of herself. She never mind that people talked about her and thought her to be strange. She didn't want to change them, neither wanted to change for them. She was her own self, in truest form.

Beast is symbolic of a person whose good qualities are hidden under a crude layer formed by a hard truth, which is how most people in life are - defensive about truth and change in themselves. It is a journey for him to realize this and bring this change. And it doesn't happen with magic or instant love at first sight, it happen slowly - first superficially, then from inside. Nobody changes overnight.

The great thing about the story is that it shows the fallacies of a dream - how adventure could be in real life, it will be demanding and not just rewarding. That love is not hunky-dory all the time and doesn't come in the form of "prince charming". It's not at all rewarding unless you are willing to change yourself for better. And above all, that it's never only about yourself, your own dreams.

The characters have depth and complexity to them that makes them interesting. Every single character in the movie has a purpose and their own motives, except to support the lead, which makes the story richer in content. Music is Alan and Howard's best piece of work.
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