An extra 45 minutes whacked on?!

Rating: 8/10 (27 March 2017)

Disney's live action remake of Cinderella set the box office tills on fire in 2015, so it was inevitable they would mine deeper into their archive of former glories for another hit.
This mostly shot for shot remake of 1991's Best Picture Oscar nominated classic is less wooden and more lovingly handled, although with 45 mins of extra running time, the padding is sometimes painfully obvious.
Emma Watson proves to be a charming Belle, far more accomplished in this non-Harry Potter outing than her previous ones (and is not hampered by a death knell American accent, cf The Bling Ring) and is matched by a hugely enjoyable Luke Evans as her preening suitor Gaston.