Like a mediocre enactment at Eurodisney at best

Rating: 2/10 (19 May 2017)

The original was an undisputed masterpiece, and to top the artistry with which it was hand-created by true artists is a potentially doomed challenge. But when this live-action version got a great review in Empire magazine we gave it a chance.
About 10 minutes into the movie we felt like watching a Christmas parade at Eurodisney with surprise celebrity appearances. Or an episode of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. By then we knew the movie was doomed: The colors, the over-polished and over-use of CGI (makeup would have created a much more humane beast instead of this emotionless CGI one), the mediocrity of the extra added songs, the pompous styling and the obvious auto-tune on the voices by some director who's clearly a compulsive cleaner, allergic to even the smallest of human imperfections. Take a song like Be Our Guest: In the original movie the graphics transformed this great Menken/Ashman song into a next level highlight. In the new version the song gets unnecessary extensions and looks like Liberace just vomited all over it.
The fact Disney expects us to applaud the fact they put their first gay character in a movie in a time homosexuality is widely accepted is just ridiculous: It's long overdue, but to Disney also a clever marketing tool to generate press.
Bottom line: I guess even Disney isn't perfect but after giving us next level treats like Zootopia, Inside Out and Toy Story 3 I can forgive them...