Flat Soda

Rating: 5/10 (2 April 2017)

OK so I'm that one person you know that hates that movie or TV show that the whole world loves, the snobbish hipster that just shrugs off the popular and goes for the one thing that people won't look at twice.
But you know what, even if I didn't like the original Beauty and the beast I still acknowledged it's beauty and mastery. this one was just flat and oddly directed...
WORST PARTS =

The songs, just imagine a dove flying in the air... it now dropped like a rock to the pavement and somehow changed into a filthy pigeon along the way. that's the songs in this film and sadly there are so many of them that it's almost a musical, also for the iconic ones from the classic the comparisons just make them worst.

The shot framing, there is something very weird with how this was directed. it's like you don't know where you are supposed to focus on, everything blends with everything and the thing that was supposed to stand out... doesn't.... this really shows in the village song as Bella blends rather then stand out.

CGI.... although the details on the furniture is lovely the whole effect is more nightmare fuel (that wardrobe is creepy and yet they love it so much that they keep zooming in on it!)

Bella. No offense to Emma Watson but she can't sing and this is almost a musical so she sounds flat and it brings her entire preformace down, whenever she's on screen I'm just bored.

The Songs/Musicals, it bears repeating how flat they were and there are just A lot of them.

BEST PARTS

Gaston and LeFou, They provided the humor and MUCH needed energy, seriously everything else in this film is so flat and everyone sounds so bored that those two are the only ones that look and sound like they're having fun.

The costume designs, those are actually really beautiful and vibrant.

The third act is actually good and high in energy, I guess they wanted to wake you up before you leave the theater.

I'll just note that nostalgia is a factor which elevated this movie a bit, I can see people liking it for that as it is a serviceable movie for that...