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Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2017)

Pros: Emma Watson is pretty and Kevin Kline is a great actor. Gaston was funny.
Cons: Emma Watson is an underwhelming singer, a disengaged actress, and British. She's not a bad actress, but not right as Belle. It called for a Julie Andrews-type energy.
The other problem, and it's only a problem because you can't suspend your disbelief that there are so many black people in 18th century France. It looks like a high school play with "whoever we can get" to fill the roles, including Emma Watson.
The 1991 version was better in every way except casting Americans as French is somehow worse than casting Brits.