BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
A film review by Amanda Miller
Copyright 1991 Amanda Miller
Okay. Here it is. One of the best Disney flicks out in a while. More than comparable to THE LITTLE MERMAID. The songs aren't quite as good, but at least they stay more in tune with the original story, (unlike the happy ending, sugary sweet version of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Littlest Mermaid"). I must say my interest was captured and held so fast that I didn't even notice the brats sitting next to me. I give this movie a sparkling five stars!
*****
The voice of Belle is played by the same girl from THE LITTLE MERMAID, and the character much better shows her talents and reaches for singing and acting. Unlike Ariel, Belle is very intelligent, loves her father, and would do anything for him. She is also an avid bookworm, which I thought was an excellent touch for Disney. The Beast is unbelievably powerful, and just rips your heart in two with his love. Also, all of the "little" servants are just about the cutest thing Disney has ever thought of, and I must say that the candlestick is my favorite.
Now for the best part. The songs themselves aren't as good, but remember the movies like PETE'S DRAGON and POLLYANNA where everybody danced together through the city streets while singing? Well, now that's in the animation also. They really do a good job with it, too. And for you computer buffs out there, Disney has finally made the switch to computer animation in their movies! The landscape scenes are in a form of 3-D, they have the stuff in the foreground fuzzy as if it was filmed by a camara that was focused on the things in the distance. Now for the biggy about the computer animation in it. Gotta go see it for yourself, but I will tell you that they use texture-mapping digitized effects and entire objects that is run off of the video toaster for the Amiga computer. Cool, huh?
Gotta go see it!!!!!!! It really is worth the six bucks!
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