Beautifully Done!

Rating: 9/10 (6 June 2017)

I am a big fan of the original movie. It was a cartoon, so the characters and their actions tended at times to be too silly and over the top. However, this did not stop it from being one of my favorite movies, containing some beautiful songs. The new Beauty and the Beast does not disappoint me at all. I thought all of the actors performed their songs very well, and I enjoyed the addition of some new melodies. Belle is beautiful, smart and sassy; the Beast is frightening, yet vulnerable and troubled; and Gaston is arrogant, vain and sexy. My only complaint, if you could call it that, is that the local girls enthralled by Gaston all looked like streetwalkers instead of village girls. They could have been pretty and not so trashy looking. This movie was enchanting, entertaining, funny, sad and thoughtful!