Literal remaking of a classic film

Rating: 7/10 (31 July 2017)

Beauty and the Beast (2017) is a strange film to review as most of it feels like a frame by frame remake of the Disney classic.
It's a good film by the fact that the animated version was great to begin with. Unlike The Jungle Book (2017) which improved on an average Disney film, Beauty and the Beast (2017) doesn't really warrant existing. You could have swapped the film for the original and you would have had the same amount of enjoyment.
Any praise is really that the everyone involved did their jobs capably and produced an admirable copy. Let's hope Aladdin, Dumbo and the Lion King can bring something new and not be 'good' by being safe live action/CGI copies.