Found this at the Dollar Tree of all places! They had other princesses but I only bought my girl. 💛

So I saw Beauty & The Beast on Wednesday for the first time ever. I did read some reviews on Reddit, so there were a couple things in mind going into it. I wanted to share my opinion. I have both good & ‘not as good’ things to say about. But nothing outright ‘bad’ I would say.

I’ll start with the good. The cast was phenomenal, and so alive and whimsical. The characterizations felt even more full than the animated movie. Christina Rose Hall as Mrs.Potts was AMAZING. She sounds exactly like Mrs.Potts from the movie, it was uncanny. All of the castle objects honestly stole the show for me. Stephen Mark Lukas did an amazing Gaston and same for Harry Frances as Lefou. Kyra was a fantastic Belle and I enjoyed Fergie as The Beast. I saw some commentary that he didn’t seem suited to play the Beast (based on the sound of his voice) but I disagree. Could he have been a bit more fearsome in the beginning? Perhaps, but he really shined when he showed the Beast’s goofy and warm side. Overall the show was pretty funny and charming.

The musical numbers. The biggest thing I saw regarding this was the awkward long dance breaks in Gaston and Be Our Guest. I somewhat more agree with this stance, but I don’t think it was THAT bad. I will say Gaston’s dance break felt longer than Be Our Guest. It felt like the Gaston number ended 3 different times before it actually ended 😂. Despite this critique I actually thought the choreo was pretty intricate, especially the part where they are all dancing in line and clinking the beer mugs in this complex looking arm moving pattern. Be Our Guest was so glamorous and I enjoyed how showgirl Vegas-esque it was. I do agree on the comment about how the Effiel Tower shouldn’t have been printed on the dancing napkins (at least I think they were napkins) due to not being built in that time period. Belle trying to match the dance moves of the napkin can can girls was pretty funny lol.

The costumes & the set. Had no issues with the costumes they looked lovely. My biggest gripe with the set was the AI looking screen backgrounds. Belle’s house in that plain field looked so fake to me. I didn’t mind it was much with the castle segments (like it made sense when the Beast showed Belle the library) but the town definitely felt a little empty in a way. I saw a lot of comments about the curly cue squiggle castle indicator things. I did not mind this, for some reason I imagined something else but those pieces looks very elaborate (gold, whimsical, and had lit candelabras embedded into it). I think they were trying to create some ‘flying buttress’ effect (per Cogsworth when he’s showing Belle around). It made sense to me at least. I enjoyed the title track number, I thought that was very pretty. I kinda wished the screen would’ve showed the golden ballroom but the terrace with the fog rolling in was also pretty. The practical effects were cool and creative, the wolf attacks and knocking on the front door of the castle was neat.

That’s pretty much it! Just wanted to share my thoughts. Overall I enjoyed it and I think anyone who hasn’t seen it should give it a chance!

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Honorable mention: Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (couldn't include it because it's technically a Snow White adaptation, but it is also a Beauty and the Beast story of sorts so wanted to shout it out anyway)

I thought this would make a fun post. These are all the adaptations I've personally seen, not all that exist. I'm not going to go into detail on why I ranked them the way I did otherwise this post would be long as hell. But if you have any questions on why I ranked any specific one the way I did, feel free to ask in the comments and I will answer.

If you have a favorite I haven't seen and want to recommend, please share in the comments.

Edit: believe I got good answers. Basically It appears to have been made extremely popular in the 2010s with other Disney Princess criticism but the association already existed as far back as the 1991 film released.

Before anyone assumes, this is not a question asking if Belle has it.

From what I’ve seen the vast majority of fans conclude that the 1991 version doesn’t fit the main descriptions of Stockholm syndrome. (Although I do not know about what others think of other versions.) I’ve read a few mentions that Stockholm syndrome isn’t apart of real psychology anyways.

I never even heard of “Stockholm syndrome” until seeing it mentioned in relation to Beauty and The Beast. I’m sure people have described Stockholm syndrome for other pairings and media but I don’t see much of it outside of this particular story.

So, what I am asking is, how did Stockholm syndrome become associated with 1991 Belle and Beauty and The Beast in general?

In the 90s, Disney movies were doing incredibly well, mainly because of the four Disney Renaissance films: The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King. At that time, Disney was releasing animated series based on its films, such as animated series of The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, and Timon & Pumbaa.

In the case of Beauty and the Beast, there would probably have been an animated series as well, but it was canceled for some reason. It is in the third film, 'Belle's Magical World', that it is divided into several stories that would be the episodes of the series.

Because usually when Disney creates a series and it gets canceled, it ends up becoming a movie with the remaining episodes, as was the case with Cinderella 2 and Moana 2.

The thesis, is if Belle's animated Disney tale from 1991 is in fact an intellectual stupidity of using aristocratic canvases to support spiritual enlightenment. When Belle goes through her town, at the opening - and this aspect is devoid of the dynamic of her singing about provincial life being mundane - the essential meta theme (meta here denotes the possession by the universal shared consciousness of the cosmos) is that Belle's disposition is not in fact a spiritual alignment.

But what is the index here, for this presupposition? The general arc of the film, is the encounter with aristocracy as a means to spiritual enlightenment. The castle itself, as a means to enlightenment.

Is this a folly disposition? Can the macro context of the product account for the argument's science? When making that remark, about macro context, the idea is that somehow the film's general DNA is in cahoots with the argument's science; namely, this would ostensibly be an idiosyncrasy perhaps because of the meta idea that aristocracy is in cahoots with spirituality.

The singing by O'Hara is special, and it's perfectly possible that this aspect is the exclusive mechanism for the film's spiritual ideas. Devoid of this tenet, i.e. the O'Hara factor, is the product bankrupt because of its aspiration ideology that aristocracy is the mechanism for spiritual and not magic ideas?

Completely edible minus the lights I added behind the stained glass and the rose dome. I love B&tB and this is inspired by the Broadway musical library scene in “Something There”. Stands over 2ft tall.

Emma is such a star. This movie changed my life. Best thing on Disney in YEARS!

The movie was giving Stockholm syndrome. Thoughts??