Exquisite Adaptation

Rating: 10/10 (17 March 2017)

Disney really got one right in this case. The artistry is beautiful, the acting and casting is impeccable, and Disney was able to hit the important social lessons with just the right balance without being heavy-handed. It does the original animated film justice while adding more dimension to the story and further fleshing out the characters, ultimately without changing important details of the original. The music was also handled perfectly, adding new songs with the same flavor as the original while not remixing the original songs into awful parodies of themselves. This is the only film I have ever attended that got two rounds of applause after it ended. It is worth seeing on its own merit, and is also a fun nostalgic walk down memory lane for those of us who were young when the original came out (and the movie knows it, and gives more than a couple subtle nods to this).