A pointless cash in

Rating: 5/10 (19 May 2017)

Emma Watson is miscast as Belle; her performance is just unconvincing. There's nothing interesting done with the premise, the characters feel flat and lifeless, the musical numbers are "meh", and the graphics don't even reflect the big budget nature of the film; some things actually manage to look bad. The hype for the film can clearly be attributed just to marketing and it coasting on the original's reputation. I don't even particularly mind corporate cash-in remakes if they're done well (see Disney's Star Wars reboot), but this is not it.