Terrible casting and awful changes to a wonderful animation script

Rating: 1/10 (21 July 2017)

Firstly Belle. Seriously... Emma Watson? I just couldn't take to her... I just couldn't see her as the incredible and vivacious Belle of the cartoon. She was dull. Her acting as flacid as it was in Potter. And her voice and singing... don't get me started!
So enter father - Ah a short fat humorous man NOOO not at all... if you had the original and magnificent cartoon in your head it all started to fall so quickly from here on. Even if you hadnt you began to question what was going on.
Gaston LeFou... they all just didn't look right. Something just 'not quite them'.
It was a mess of badly done songs and sporadic scenes (new ones at that) that barely tied together.
I wish I could undo my time with BATB I really do and leave my memories with the original cartoon.
(ms Thompson what accent WERE you doing.. had you lessons from Dick Van Dyke?? You are English already!)
In all if you have a hour or two you are better getting a DVD of the animated version and submerging yourself in the magic of it.