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April’s “Watch and Commentary” took a trip back to 2017 and the reason why we have these boring live-action adaptations: Beauty and the Beast 2017. Yes, there were others before this movie, but the 2017 film is a special kind of loathsome evil that makes me tremble with rage to think about it.

Links & Sources:

https://www.stylist.co.uk/people/emma-watson-dan-stevens-family-daughter-beauty-beast-feminism-fashion/33015

https://www.thewrap.com/emma-watson-to-star-in-disneys-beauty-and-the-beast-exclusive/

https://screenrant.com/emma-watson-beauty-beast-guillermo-del-toro/

http://www.merrymisandrist.com/home/my-ribs-ache-for-lily-james-in-cinderella

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/lily-james-went-on-a-liquid-diet-to-fit-into-cinderella-dress-photos-201543/?fbclid=IwAR1At9mvtKuCtSQMi9Sjmazg45N2fLi2AXr10s85Gnpv_ZtWoYSF26SDpSA

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corycatte

belle's enchanted christmas was a staple VHS for my sister and I growing up.... so in that case it had rewatchability for children which I consider that is enough to give it a step up over the remake (as a kid i was pretty against watching anything "live action" and only really wanted to watch animation... he would have been in the trenches in this day and age...)

corycatte

also can we stop learning about every movie that del toro was working on that then got shelved we already know this timeline is hell we dont need more salt in that wound

ivy saige

Honestly, I’ve only gone back to rewatch Cinderella in 2015 for its costumes and Kate Blanchett’s performance, I’ve never considered rewatching Beauty and the Beast in 2017.

Cynara Cherry-Cary

Belle's Enchanted Christmas is better because the story is somewhat engaging, if not dark, for a kids' film. It is one of the mid disney sequels (TLM2, Aladdin 3, and Lion King 2 are best ones, ). What kills it is the animation. They do have a top notch voice cast with Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters in that cast.

Cynara Cherry-Cary

I will say the fact the live action Cinderella is so brightly lit when the ball scene is dark because they dim lights to create a ethereal mood for the prince and cinderella as they dance and Beauty and the Beast has the opposite is hilarious. Kenneth really lean into the costuming.

Samuel Nguyen

Agreed on everything. It annoys me when people talk about the Disney live action remakes, a lot of people seem to love BatB and I just do not get it at all. Also, love that in a Beauty and the Beast video, Scuttlebutt is still catching strays.

Cassandra J.

I forgot how legitimately ugly some of the scenes were in the remake

Yeshi Lemma

I remember asking for the OG Beauty and the Beast on VHS for Christmas one year and getting Belle’s Enchanted Christmas instead. Deeply disappointing lol. But somehow I’d rather watch that over the live action one!

Pippa Russell

I think it’s kind of unfair that the blame for the dress got all put on Emma Watson. There were likely so many people involved in that creative decision, and it’s not a crime to be uninformed about historical dress. I also don’t know why they didn’t just dub her singing voice. That being said I never hated this movie simply because I never loved the original. Belle always bothered me because her want for adventure doesn’t match up with the journey she goes on. At least when Disney princesses sing about wanting to fall in love, I can be satisfied they got what they wanted. She just got a library and a man, which isn’t what she asked for!

Pippa Russell

Mulan forever which is why I will never watch that live action film, because I know I won’t be able to handle it.

Allexa Laycock

Being on the live watch while you hated on this film filled my heart with unmitigated glee, and I am happy to have a video to come back to whenever I need a pick me up.

Dora Mercedes

I love the maleficent movies cause that's the reason I watched sleeping beauty 2038393x as a kid. Also, Angelina. And Cinderella was genuinely good. But as someone who was lukewarm about BATB... The 2017 movie was just boring. Ugly and boring. And that's such a crime!

Phoenix Buchanan

Emma Watson definitely didn't get near half as much as the hate as Bailey and Zegler, being a white woman, but she wasn't entirely safe from misogyny either, especially from women online who blamed the bad yellow dress entirely on her, instead of the director or the costume designer, because she like every other actress ever said the typical "corset bad" line in her press tour, and for her bad singing (fair but who asked Disney to cast her?). So many actively hated on her for the bad decisions the movie made simply because she was the face of the it. I've subsequently seen people blame all the faults of 2010s era pop-feminism on her too and it's so overblown it feels misogynistic.

Jule

I will not stand for Belle’s Enchanted Christmas slander!

Kiana

“Beauty and the Beast 2017 is the worst kind of thing. It’s worse than a cash grab. It is a cash grab that thinks it’s art.” 🔥 🙌 One of the most succinct and effective summaries of this movie’s loathsomeness.