Stunning remake

Rating: 8/10 (11 November 2019)

If you are unfamiliar with the story of Beauty and the Beast, then you must have lived under a rock for a very long time. I shall not talk about the plot or story line here, but rather my immense surprise at how extremely well done was this movie. First and foremost, I do not know if Emma Watson's singing voice was touched up in post production, but she sings extremely well. I have never fully cared for her work up to this point. I never enjoyed the Harry Potter films, and really hadn't seen her in anything else since. By pure happenstance, I was flipping through channels and ended up watching part of this. I really enjoyed the 91 version, so I ordered the live action and finally sat down to watch it. Disney did such a tremendous job with this. I have never been a fan of taking a cartoon and making a live action film from it. To me they usually lose something in the translation. This is not the case here, as Disney improved the original. This is a visually gorgeous movie that is very well done.