A selfish prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner.
Director: Bill Condon
Stars: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Audra McDonald, Stanley Tucci.
Nichola Treherne ... Associate choreographer
Anthony Van Laast ... choreography
Watched online, ok print, minor distortion on bottom of image.
18 songs in the Soundtracks (includes repetition), all Music by Alan Menken, or Written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, 8 with Lyrics by Tim Rice.
As soon as the dishes and bric-a-brac started singing/dancing, I tuned out. Lots of CGI, with the famous names above voicing the animated usually-inanimate objects.
Songs sounded familiar from Beauty and the Beast (1991), 7-, but they must have added some, since that had only 8 songs, and runtime 1h 24min. The '91 film started right after this one, and looked very flat and slow-moving. Ah, the good ole days of hand animation.
Rated 7.2 (230,824); the '91 version today has 8.0 (383,100), and IMDb was not super popular in '91 (launched 10'90.)
Disney, dir. Condon; 6
