The film that officially signaled Disney's animation renaissance (following The Little Mermaid) and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. It relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the Beast (a prince whose heart is too hard to love anyone besides himself), Belle boldly takes her father's place, imprisoned in the Beast's gloomy mansion. Naturally, Belle teaches the Beast to love. What makes this such a dazzler, besides the amazingly accomplished animation and the winning coterie of supporting characters (the Beast's mansion is overrun by quipping, dancing household items) is the array of beautiful and hilarious songs by composer Alan Menken and the late, lamented lyricist Howard Ashman. (The title song won the 1991 Best Song Oscar, and Menken's score scored a trophy as well.) The downright funniest song is "Gaston," a lout's paean to himself (including the immortal line, "I use antlers in all of my de-co-ra-ting"). "Be Our Guest" is transformed into an inspired Busby Berkeley homage. Since Ashman's passing, animated musicals haven't quite reached the same exhilarating level of wit, sophistication, and pure joy. --David Kronke --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
pirated copy of Disney's DVD sold off to pass as the original!:
i bought the platinum edition DVD of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" from the seller known as "Limeyman", in May. It was so obviously a pirated copy, as printing for the cover art and accompanying booklet were all grainy and dull-coloured (the booklet wasn't even stapled together and was incomplete, with just a couple of badly printed pages loosely folded together!) Worst of all, both the enclosed discs could not be played AT ALL on my Macbook. And the irony was that i had watched the exact same... more info
beauty and the beast:
im glad i got this movie although i can clearly tell it is a burned copy.
I can tell by the cover and all the extra papers that are inside, they have been copied, as for the movie itself while watching it, it is really not clear and distorted just like when you burn a dvd and the big thing is the chapter symbol at the top right of the screen does not go away.
Great priced item.:
I have gotten a great price on this movie. It's one of mine and my girls favorite movies of all time. The seller was fast at shipping this movie and very reasonable on the price. Many other on this same movie were alot more expensive. Thanks.
not on the condition promised...:
I bought this off an amazon.com user who claimed this was a brand new Disney dvd in the shrink wrap. Well it was new, and it was in shrink wrap, but it was quite obviously a burned/copied edition. The inside booklet wasn't even printed correctly! I am very disappointed with the seller, but place no blame on Amazon.
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