Still one of Disney's finest animated movies.

Rating: 10/10 (6 April 2017)

In light of the live-action remake coming out, I decided to write-up a review for the original film. Beauty and the Beast: the first ever animated film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars; and rightfully so. 26 years on, and this film still holds up. It holds up so well, that I think remaking it was basically pointless. I mean it worked; but right here the film is still freshly entertaining on its own, in its original traditionally-animated glory.
What is there to say about this film that hasn't already been said? I don't know; but I still love it being a fully-grown man and all. And this film competed with The Silence of the Lambs at the Oscars for Best Picture (which Lambs won). Still, THAT competition says something about the power and impact this movie had at the time. Beauty and the Beast was the piece that resulted in the creation of the Oscar's 'Best Animated Feature' award being created.
The story's your traditional 'beautiful on the inside' narrative that Disney helped turn into a mainstay thanks to its updating of the studio's fairy-tale medium. Its flipping of the fairy-tale conventions made it a standout of the time, as it did the original story's publication in 1740.
Like they say, the original is always the best.