Beyond Overrated

Rating: 1/10 (8 January 2018)

While I had high hopes for this film, I found it extremely disappointing.
Like its fellow Disney live-action films, Beauty and the Beast bashes its viewers over the head with CGI and an unoriginal plot. The seemingly-perfect cast fell flat and the music was mediocre at best (don't even get me started on the painful performance by Dan Stevens with "Evermore").
Additionally, Emma Watson's performance was bearable, but her vocals were abhorrent. When casting your lead role in a musical, it is crucial to cast an actress that can actually sing. When compared to the 1991 and Broadway versions of Beauty and the Beast, Watson's vocals (though hyped-up by fans) are laughable.
This live-action version of Beauty and the Beast was somehow less emotionally-stimulating than the cartoon version (I found that I didn't care for the characters even remotely) and somehow the plot was boring even though it hardly ever strayed from the original.
The only lesson I learned from watching this film: stick to the original versions and stop buying tickets to these lazy, uncreative, overrated live-action movies!