Not bad! But, it's going to suffer by inevitable comparison to the 1991 original.

Rating: 5/10 (25 March 2017)

Yes, I went to see it out of curiosity (like a lot of you, I suspect). But, while it adhered pretty closely to the Menken/Ashman masterpiece of twenty-six years ago, it still didn't recapture the charm and novelty of it. Not for me, anyway.
Ewan McGregor, as Lumiere, is no Jerry Orbach. Emma Thompson, as Mrs. Potts, is no Angela Lansbury. Ian McKellen sounded more like Patrick Stewart (his co-star from the X-MEN films) rather than Charles Ogden Stiers (the voice of the original Cogswell). And Emma Stone? Well, her song coach should be proud of her. But, she's still no Catherine O'Hara.
All in all, then, it was a nice way to kill a rainy Saturday afternoon. But, I sincerely doubt this will be the Oscar contender, at next year's Academy Awards, the same way the original movie was.