Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Reviews Counted: 92
Fresh: 85 | Rotten: 7
Enchanting, sweepingly romantic, and featuring plenty of wonderful musical numbers, Beauty and the Beast is one of Disney's most elegant animated offerings.
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 1
Enchanting, sweepingly romantic, and featuring plenty of wonderful musical numbers, Beauty and the Beast is one of Disney's most elegant animated offerings.
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Walt Disney Animation Studios' magical classic Beauty and the Beast returns to the big screen in Disney Digital 3D(TM), introducing a whole new generation to the Disney classic with stunning new 3D imagery. The film captures the fantastic journey of Belle (voice of Paige O'Hara), a bright and beautiful young woman who's taken prisoner by a hideous beast (voice of Robby Benson) in his castle. Despite her precarious situation, Belle befriends the castle's enchanted staff-a teapot, a candelabra and
Cast
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Paige O'Hara
Belle -
Robby Benson
Beast -
Richard White
Gaston -
Jerry Orbach
Lumiere -
David Ogden Stiers
Cogsworth/Narrator -
Angela Lansbury
Mrs. Potts -
Bradley Pierce
Chip -
Rex Everhart
Maurice -
Jesse Corti
Le Fou -
Jo Ann Worley
Wardrobe -
Kimmy Robertson
Featherduster -
Mary Kay Bergman
Bimbette -
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Brian Cummings
Stove -
Alvin Epstein
Bookseller -
Tony Jay
Monsieur D'Arque -
Alec Murphy
Baker -
Kath Soucie
Bimbette -
Hal Smith
Philippe -
Frank Welker
Footstool -
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All Critics (93) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (92) | Rotten (7) | DVD (35)
Magic.
A lovely film that ranks with the best of Disney's animated classics.
What you gain in an extra, faked dimension you lose in lively, genuine beauty.
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.
The 3-D pops out to enhance the drama or energy of scenes in which settings are large and integral to the action.
Some youthful memories are better not revisited, but this definitely isn't one of them. Sometimes you can go home again.
The 3D revival sees this witty, dramatically inventive version of a familiar story wearing well.
Pure fairytale escapism that doesn't boast any digital trickery, celebrity voiceovers or unnecessary action.
Disney's most perfectly achieved combination of animation, story-telling and song must surely be this loving tribute to the old fairytale.
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...
Unsubtle perhaps, but never fails to hit the right notes.
Reaches a level of artistry, sophistication and musical excellence that's still to be bettered by the Mouse House - or indeed its rivals.
The greatest animated film ever made and one of the screen's great musicals hardly needs this (3D) sort of sprucing up.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
Beauty and the Beast is just as enchanting 20 years after its initial release.
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.
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.
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.
A serviceable version of a classic fairy tale minus that crucial touch of magic.
Audience Reviews for Beauty and the Beast
Super Reviewer
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- 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!
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- Beast: THAT HURTS!!
- Belle: If you hadn't hold still, it wouldn't have hurt as much.
- Beast: Well, if you hadn't have run away, this wouldn't have happened.
- Belle: If you hadn't frightened me, I wouldn't have run away!
- Beast: [beat] Well YOU shouldn't have known better than going into the west wing!
- Belle: Well you should learn to control your temper!
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- Lumiere: Oh, you look so... so...
- Beast: [fur done up in curls and bows] Stupid.
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- Gaston: She's in love with the beast!
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- Cogsworth/Narrator: Flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep.
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- Belle: [singing] There may be something there that wasn't there before.
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Foreign Titles
- Die Schöne und das Biest (DE)
- Beauty and the Beast (UK)










Top Critic
Upon yet another recent viewing, I found the songs more awkward and expository, and even reading-is-sexy Belle comes off as damselly and over-accommodating, not to mention rash and passive aggressive. Perhaps my once-unbridled enthusiasm for the film has been dampened by buzzfeed's barenaked ass-whupping of the "classic's" glaring plot holes http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/questions-disney-forgot-to-answer-about-beauty-and-the-be