Bad direction

Rating: 5/10 (7 August 2017)

Movie is almost mirror copy of the original animated version. Yet it is far worse. I tried to analyze the reason and it has to be bad direction.
Emma Watson first of all, is good casting in my opinion. But her acting... I wouldn't say was bad but went the wrong direction. Instead of innocent image of Belle, she had some sort of sensual facial expression in the beginning. This should've been corrected by the director.
The Lumiere, Cogsworth, and Mrs. Potts. What made the original work was the facial expression of these important characters. But the CG version completely destroys any facial acting if there were any. You can hardly see the face of Lumiere. And it was his face singing beginning of "Be... Our... Guest" that was such important moment. That scene is still there but doesn't have any impact. They should've exaggerated the size of their faces and actually make it 3D faces. Instead of just graphics. Bad decision here again.
The songs. The existing ones were still great. The new ones are horrible. Original songs, I heard them once and they stuck in my head. These new ones are very forgettable.
These all has to fall on the director.