It's not New York Metropolitan Opera vocal quality. AND I DON'T CARE!

Rating: 10/10 (18 March 2017)

DISCLAIMER: I am head-over-heels in love with Emma Watson. I am predisposed to love anything she does because she does it.
DISCLAIMER: I am head-over-heels in love with Alan Menken. If he writes the music, I'm there.
DISCLAIMER: I love loving things. I hate hating things. It makes no sense to me to equate intelligence with the ability to find fault. Sometimes I see what they were going for and applaud the effort. Sometimes I see what they were going for and weep at how badly they missed it.
That being said, I LOVED the new "Beauty and the Beast". I was wiping tears from the corners of my eyes frequently for sheer beauty.
The original cartoon I loved. Even though there were holes in the plot you could drive a battleship through. They fixed all the plot holes! Go see it, if only for that!
Okay, okay, Emma Watson isn't a classically-trained coloratura soprano. She's no Paige O'Hara vocally. For that matter, I missed Jerry Orbach when Ewen MacGregor was singing "Be Our Guest" and I missed Angela Lansbury in Emma Thompson's "Beauty and the Beast". I understand Orbach is no longer available and the supernatural Ms. Lansbury, in her 90's, probably couldn't do the song the justice she did a quarter of a century ago. Guess what. I DON'T CARE! They did justice to the songs. They didn't do brilliance with the songs. I don't care.
Emma has a divinely expressive face that carries her emotions perfectly for the big screen. Her Belle was glorious.
Is it possible to miscast Kevin Kline? He is brilliant. And his Maurice is delicious. His singing, still not New York Metropolitan Opera quality, carries the song.
Luke Evans does just the lightest touch of camp in playing Gaston. I reveled in it! Once again, not the vocal quality of Richard White, and I did miss that amazing bass. But the baritone/tenor carried it off.
Now, let's get to Josh Gad.
Bill Condon did the lightest hat tip to the Gender Community with Josh Gad's Lefou. If you blink, you might miss it. If you're terrified your little ones might get gay cooties on them and grow up "perverts", by all means skip this show. But you'd probably better not let them watch any television, listen to any music, or attend any movies, because the portrayals there are not teensy hat-tips. They are full-body bows and curtsies.
Now for the real star of the show: The music.
Alan Menken is a living miracle. He does things with a musical score and songs that blow me through the wall! All the new songs are brilliant! Beast's song of pain over Belle is stunning. THOSE vocals are magnificent! I've always loved the opening number of "Beauty and the Beast". It is full-blown grand opera, and makes me wish Alan Menken would write a sure-enough opera.
This movie dazzled me visually, musically, and emotionally. Yes, there are some things that seemed to me flaws. Guess what. I don't care! You have my highest recommendation.