What a wonderful musical

Rating: 10/10 (10 March 2017)

Seems nobody likes fun anymore, because you couldn't have made this film any better. The 1946 version is amazing and so is this live action retelling, with a rearranged score by Alan Menken and new songs. The cast completely knocks it out of the park. Emma Watson's Belle is enchanting and it turns out she has an outstanding singing voice. The supporting cast is enthralling especially Luke Evans as Gaston and Josh Gad as LeFou. Dan Steven's brings the Beast to life and the story-line and progression of him and Belle is even better than the cartoon. More emotional, more realistic and yet this film is just as if not more magical. Visually it is grand and the costumes and set design make you feel inside a fantasy world. All the hatred clearly are from people who didn't want to even see this film in the first place. Bill Condon, screenwriter of Chicago and director of Dreamgirls, directs a massively entertaining spectacle, this is the Disney live action musical everyone has been waiting for. Especially Disney, who wanted to make a live action version decades ago. Forget La La Land, this is a musical with a classically sounding cast.