How Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (28 March 2017)

"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."
I'm sure this won't be the last time I say this, but it needs to be said: Stop making movie musicals with people who can't sing. If they can't sing, drop the Autotunes and dub them. We have the technology; it's virtually painless. Non-singing actors have ruined 3 of my favorite musicals: Beauty & the Beast, Sweeney Todd, and Phantom of the Opera. In a musical, music is a character, and hearing Josh Groban sing "Evermore" over the end credits merely proved what was missing.
The overuse of CGI in films is creating a nightmare of quick cut, in your face visuals that are detracting from the overall story and quite frankly, giving me a headache. Again, CGI should enhance, not overtake your scenes and wrestle them and your actors into the ground. The same CGI that made "Be Our Guest" a thing of beauty in the 1991 version creates an on-screen, muddled mess here. In fact, the CGI detracted rather than enhanced this entire production. The cartoon characters showed more emotion than the flat, emotionless, and rather frightening faces here.
I'd rather not comment on the acting because it's hard to do that and not hurt people's feelings, and at the end of the day, actors are people, too. I will say that there is a reason Disney is now seriously recognizing and marketing their Villains. THEY ROCK. Oh, and Kevin Kline gets a pass because I love him. :-)
While others may love it, it simply wasn't my cup of tea.