Wide release 3/17/17
Viewed 3/21/17 at Carlisle 8 with Ella
IMBd: 7.9/10
IMBd: 7.9/10
RT Critic: 70 Audience: 86
Critic's Consensus:
Critic's Consensus:
Cag: 3.5 Liked it, especially the music
Directed by Bill Condon
Walt Disney Pictures
Emma Watson, Emma Thompson, Kevin Kline,
My comments: I was really looking forward to this, and took Ella after dinner at the bar at Applebees. We settled into our comfy reclining seats with great expectation. Was it as wonderful as we expected? Unfortunately, not for either of us. I loved the music. And the actors. But the animated spectaculars dragged on and on for me. Ella got scared in a couple of places. She told me she was going to have nightmares, and covered her face at one point. So afterwards, in the car, I asked her about it. Spoiler alert: In the scene where Belle and the Beast are transported back to Paris where she was born and her mother died had no meaning for ten-year-old Ella. She didn't understand any of it, and the picture of the doctor with what she described as a "duck mask" was really, really creepy to her since she didn't understand the context. She told me she felt much better after I explained what a plague was, did, and why they had to get the baby out of there fast. Emma Watson is adorable, and I loved Kevin Klein as her father. But yes, unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed.
RT/ IMDb Summary: The fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle's enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast's hideous exterior and realize the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within.
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