Good - but...

Rating: 5/10 (3 April 2017)

May be some spoilers for those who have never seen any version of beauty and the beast. Of course the story is well known - nothing much changes in this version. In fact, it's pretty point by point with the animated film. The sets and animation is quite good and they did choose great actors for the characters, the costumes are wonderful and all the singing is great. It just seemed to lack a bit of magic to me. The scenes with Maurice didn't seem to build up the drama about the beast enough. The editing or pace was quite rushed in his scenes. Not enough tension was built in so it didn't make as much sense why Gaston would do anything he did. It seems as if they wanted so much to build up the gay character that they lost the story in favor of an agenda.