All time favorite

Rating: 10/10 (31 July 2013)

This is an excellent movie for the whole family. I was already in Junior High when this came out but it quickly became one of my favorites. Even now with children of my own I love to pull this movie out and sit down with them to watch it.
It starts out with beautiful scenery and wonderful singing. You will follow the life of an ordinary girl named Belle who has a love for reading. She lives alone with her father who is a but odd with his inventions and solitary lifestyle.
He goes off to show his invention, he gets lost, finds a castle in the woods and lets himself in. Once inside he meets the enchanted occupants. Then the story really starts. The Beast discovers he has an unannounced visitor and thinks he is there torment him. So the father gets thrown in the tower.
Belle has an unwelcoming admirer, the town bully. He tries to woo her, unsuccessfully. She runs out to the field to escape him and finds her fathers riderless horse barreling down on her. She then travels to the woods in search of her father.
When she finds him at the castle she trades her life for his and the Beast releases her father and keeps her. Then the story begins.