Beauty and the Beast (1991)

All Critics (93) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (92) | Rotten (7) | DVD (35)

Magic.

May 3, 2012 Full Review

Cath Clarke

Time Out

Top Critic

A lovely film that ranks with the best of Disney's animated classics.

February 23, 2012 Full Review

Variety Staff

Variety

Top Critic

What you gain in an extra, faked dimension you lose in lively, genuine beauty.

January 13, 2012 Full Review | Comments (3)

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

The set pieces are narcotically pleasing, especially the Busby Berkeley-style dancing-kitchenware spectacular, "Be Our Guest," and the romantic ballroom centerpiece that brings Beauty and her Beast together.

January 13, 2012 Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

The 3-D pops out to enhance the drama or energy of scenes in which settings are large and integral to the action.

January 13, 2012 Full Review

Jennie Punter

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Some youthful memories are better not revisited, but this definitely isn't one of them. Sometimes you can go home again.

January 12, 2012 Full Review

Richard Ouzounian

Toronto Star

Top Critic

The 3D revival sees this witty, dramatically inventive version of a familiar story wearing well.

May 5, 2012 Full Review

Philip French

Observer [UK]

Pure fairytale escapism that doesn't boast any digital trickery, celebrity voiceovers or unnecessary action.

May 4, 2012 Full Review

Henry Fitzherbert

Daily Express

Disney's most perfectly achieved combination of animation, story-telling and song must surely be this loving tribute to the old fairytale.

May 3, 2012 Full Review

Christopher Tookey

Daily Mail [UK]

There's no doubting the craftsmanlike elegance of the film, summoning up with relish the spirit of classic fairytale Disney of the 50s and 60s...

May 3, 2012 Full Review

Andrew Pulver

Guardian [UK]

Unsubtle perhaps, but never fails to hit the right notes.

May 3, 2012 Full Review

Matthew Thrift

Little White Lies

Reaches a level of artistry, sophistication and musical excellence that's still to be bettered by the Mouse House - or indeed its rivals.

May 2, 2012 Full Review

Neil Smith

Total Film

The greatest animated film ever made and one of the screen's great musicals hardly needs this (3D) sort of sprucing up.

March 23, 2012 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

I admit it: I wrote this more than 20 years ago. But, like " Beauty and the Beast" itself, I think it stands the test of time.

February 11, 2012 Full Review

Linda Cook

KWQC-TV (Iowa)

Disney, please understand ... what people are actually showing up for ... they just want to see classic Disney on the big screen. The 3D is incidental.

January 30, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Widgett Walls

Needcoffee.com

Disney's gorgeous 1991 animated version of the classic fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" gets the same 3D treatment that was recently given to "The Lion King."

January 20, 2012 Full Review

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Watching this in a theater definitely makes it feel less like a "cartoon" and more like a significant film. Cogsworth poking Le Fou in the butt with a sword aside.

January 16, 2012 Full Review

Pete Vonder Haar

Houston Press

One of the brightest jewels in Disney's crown, Beauty and the Beast's 3D reissue takes nothing away and makes the film's brilliance even easier to appreciate; the movie is more beautiful and timeless than it ever was.

January 14, 2012 Full Review

Diva Velez

TheDivaReview.com

Beauty and the Beast is just as enchanting 20 years after its initial release.

January 13, 2012 Full Review

Annlee Ellingson

Paste Magazine

The apex of an art form, a justly celebrated classic, and the best animated movie of any sort ever put on screen at any time.

January 13, 2012 Full Review

Rob Vaux

Mania.com

The lines have begun to show in Belle's tale, which remains enjoyable but feels more like a quaint artifact than the masterpiece it once was declared to be.

January 13, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Mike Scott

Times-Picayune

Both TANGLED EVER AFTER and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST are sure to enthrall audiences everywhere, even if the 3D doesn't really add much of anything to this animated classic.

January 13, 2012 Full Review

JimmyO

JoBlo's Movie Emporium

A serviceable version of a classic fairy tale minus that crucial touch of magic.

January 13, 2012 Full Review | Comments (16)

Ethan Alter

Television Without Pity

• 1. Monsieur D'Arque: So you want me to throw her into the asylum, unless she agrees to marry you? Oh that is despicable [laughs evilly] I LOVE IT!
  – Submitted by Matthew D (7 months ago)
• 1. Beast: THAT HURTS!!
  2. Belle: If you hadn't hold still, it wouldn't have hurt as much.
  3. Beast: Well, if you hadn't have run away, this wouldn't have happened.
  4. Belle: If you hadn't frightened me, I wouldn't have run away!
  5. Beast: [beat] Well YOU shouldn't have known better than going into the west wing!
  6. Belle: Well you should learn to control your temper!
  – Submitted by Matthew D (7 months ago)
• 1. Lumiere: Oh, you look so... so...
  2. Beast: [fur done up in curls and bows] Stupid.
  – Submitted by Jared B (7 months ago)
• 1. Gaston: She's in love with the beast!
  – Submitted by Ashley N (10 months ago)
• 1. Cogsworth/Narrator: Flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep.
  – Submitted by Don H (12 months ago)
• 1. Belle: [singing] There may be something there that wasn't there before.
  – Submitted by Venkatesh S (13 months ago)

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