Beautiful film, but not for IMAX

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 2002)

I want to say one thing right off the bat; I absolutely love this film. But I was less than thrilled with the results of blowing it up to IMAX size. The additional sequence, "Human Again" was fun, and it was novel to see it on a huge screen, but so many of the background characters were so huge on the IMAX screen that it was apparent that they were a lot less detailed than the main, foreground characters. The final sequence, where Belle and the restored Prince are waltzing was a good example of this; they waltz, everyone else stands perfectly still, un-animated and it was so much more apparent on the large screen. It was my understanding that Disney was going back to re-animate some of these background characters. Well, apparently, they missed a bunch of them. Once again, great film, but the large scale format does it a great injustice.