The Rich & Ugly

Rating: 4/10 (17 May 2017)

I read a fine comment on the story of The Beauty and the Beast - that the moral boiled down leaves us with the conclusion that "if you are rich you can be ugly but you can still get married to a beautiful woman". Well, if I would have a hang to be a conspiracy theorist I would argue that the story was invented - or more likely commissioned - by ugly, old rich men to teach women that "the beauty lies within" ;)
Anyway, after I have now filled some lines required back to the movie - this version of The Beauty and the Beast feels like La La Land to me: not really bad but far away from being an outstanding or a new classic. If you like musicals you may watch it, if you don't watch it you won't miss much. Music, setting, directing, acting, everything okayish. If I would have to use one word for labeling the movie, that's it: okayish.
Conclusion: the best Disney movies are still animations. On the other fields, be it Star Wars, Johnny Depp's pirating or Mad Hatting, or this movie, the outputs are mediocre, predictable - redundant. Frozen for example easy beats imho everything Disney produced recently with real actors and you have the advantage that you can give a real singer's voices to the animated characters, my wish: for the next couple of years, no more actors singing, let them act and not bore me to hell - if I wanna hear an amateur's voice I take a shower ;) Next.