Autistic Reviewers Opinion Of This Movie.

Rating: 5/10 (23 March 2017)

As you are all aware Disney is rebooting all of its cartoon classics and bringing them to life. The last one they rebooted was "the Jungle Book" and that was so close to perfection. Sadly Beauty And The Beast is a downfall from that. Jay And Nick (The Autistic Reviewers) will start off this review by starting out with the bad and then ending with the good. We always like to leave on a positive note! The Bad: There are some horrible moments of CGI such as The Beasts face, the wolves and Lumiere (in some scenes). The face of the Beast was just lazy. Don't think it had anything to do with the CGI...after all if Peter Jackson's 2005 version of Kong can look so real there is no reason that The Beasts face could have been done the same or even better. The eyes of the beast are also a problem. The eyes just don't go with the CGI face. You could either make the CGI better or just put a guy in a costume. Lumiere (Ewan McGregor)and Cogsworth (Ian Mckellen) were completely miscast. They didn't capture the charm and humour the original Lumiere and Cogsworth did. Audra Mcdonald who plays Madame Garderobe was annoying as hell. In fact without going too far into the voice cast just didn't capture the heart nor the charm of the original voice actors did with these characters. One of the biggest complaints of this movie was casting Emma Watson as Belle. She just seemed completely fake and kept looking away from the camera all the time as if she was saying to the director "Am I doing this right? Am I doing this right? Am I supposed to feel this way?" We always pictured someone like Emma Stone or Rachel Mcadams playing someone like Belle. One other big complaint is the director. The direction was awful. It felt like a Twilight movie, and looking at the directors history of directing he did, in fact direct the finale 2 Twilight Movies. It just did not fit.
The good: The singing and the soundtrack was really good. It had songs from the original movie and even 1 or 2 extra songs thrown in there for entertainment purposes and it does work. Luke Evans as Gaston was the perfect choice. He relive Gaston not only as a bully like he was in the original, but also as a murdering, short tempered man. Josh Gad as Lefou was also another good choice for casting. Him and Luke Evans looked like they knew what they were doing and were having great fun bringing their characters to life. More good news is that Emma Thompson (who plays Mrs. Potts) was the perfect choice to play her. She was he only voice that was convincing and her singing was really good.
Verdict: With a better director and a better actress to play Belle and many others this film could have been saved and made into an excellent reboot like The Jungle Book, but sadly it didn't end up that way. The Autistic Reviewers give this 2/5 stars. 5/10. Check us out on facebook and Instagram!