Above average movie, leads/songs are great, just doesn't feel as "magical" as the 1991 classic

Rating: Null/10 (19 March 2017)

***WARNING: This review may contain spoilers***
The movie is nice but doesn't feel magical. Don't get me wrong. I like the movie. Here's what I think worked and didn't.
WHAT DID WORK: 1) I like the additions of backstory to the Beast's and Belle's mother stories. 2) The new songs were good. Belle's solo, the Beast's solo (showing him as a kid looking at his mother), and when the Beast was up on the tower after he released Belle to go back to her father 3) The more life-like movements of the candelabra and the clock 4) The Beast being Belle's "book" equal instead of being uneducated in the 1991 film 5) Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, and Luke Evans are good leads 6) The part where all the servants in their "cursed state" (dresser, candelabra, Mrs. Potts, Chip, the piano, and especially the leg rest / dog become immobilized (and practically dead) was truly emotional and done very well. 7) I actually liked the end credits (no surprise scene at end) 8) Nice to hear Celine Dion sing during the end credits (but I'm partial to her voice)
WHAT DIDN'T WORK: 1) They did a Brandy Cinderella-type version with town folk being white and black and multi-cultured...which made it look like a modern movie set instead of a fairy tale 2) Bad CGI for the wolves and the Beast's face 3) The Village people reuniting with the "new" reformed castle at the end and realizing there are some relationships that were crisscrossed with each other 4)Emma Watson's songs were partially auto-tuned 5)Biggest disappointment for me was the "Beauty and the Beast"-song and the dance. That was the scene that "made" the 1991 movie, but the way the whole scene was filmed did not make it seem magical. I was waiting for the scene where Beast escorts Belle into the dance floor (which was imitated in the movie "Enchanted"--but nothing like that here. Unfortunately, it was regrettable and more people are talking about Emma Watson's yellow dress than this scene.
There are more things that worked and more things that didn't work, but these are some to give you an idea.