Beauty and the Beast (2017) - Nostalgia Critic

Audiences either loved it or hated it, but the Nostalgia Critic has some harsh words about this beastly live action remake. Let's check out Beauty and the Beast (2017).

Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American musical romantic fantasy film directed by Bill Condon from a screenplay written by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos, and co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Mandeville Films. The film is based on Disney's 1991 animated film of the same name, itself an adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's eighteenth-century fairy tale.

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[ChannelAwesome]

What's your favorite and least favorite Disney Live Action Remake?

[twilit_echos]

Whenever I saw “Belle” on screen I never really saw Belle, I just saw Emma Watson. her character never invested me enough to believe that she IS Belle and don’t even get me started on her auto tuned voice...

[alonelygoldfish]

Emma Watson has been acting her whole life but she's also been playing the same character her whole life.

[ilovecheetahs]

I think one of the things that really annoyed me about Emma, and by extension, the whole film, was realised when I compared her to Lily James and her portrayal of Cinderella in the 2015 live action. We can use their ball gowns as exemplars. For Lily, if you watch her behind the scenes and even in the movie, you can tell that she uses the dress to get into the character of Cinderella - she’s even said that being in the dress made her feel the most in character. With Emma, she insisted on tailoring the dress to what *she* believed Belle should be like. In short, Lily used the opportunity to give us the best Cinderella she could, and Emma used the opportunity to give us the best Emma she could.

lmao also that autotune was something else

[positivepessimist]

Something that’ll make you hate it more?
Beast doesn’t even get his own “I love her” line.
Yeah.
Towards the climax, when Cogsworth asks why the Beast let Belle go, in the original, Beast says, “Because...I love her.” It’s the first time it’s ever said aloud. It shows the audience that he is well aware of his actions, and its consequences.
The remake gives Mrs. Potts the opportunity to tell the Beast (and everyone else) how he feels about her, robbing his character of what should be the culmination of his arc. It’s his deal, Mrs. Potts. Nobody asked you.

[alltheinnocence]

Am I the only one who thought, 'Hmm. So Gaston's lifeless body is just lying there in the courtyard while everyone is celebrating and dancing? That'll be a fun discovery for someone!'
"Tale as old Gaston is dead!"

[greaterstark]

“Who cares if it blows? We’re rolling in the dough... Disney’s bland remake...”

There’s so much truth in this lil lyric.

[varegogothi]

Didn't French women already know how to read in this time period?

[PaleJulia]

Imagine getting Audra Mcdonald in your movie... and letting her sing for the whole 20 seconds

[munromister]

There's a specific scene in each movie that I think really spells out how the remake doesn't understand the original at all.
Right as Belle is leaving the castle, and the servants are watching, there's a dialogue exchange where Cogsworth asks why The Beast let her go. In the original animated one, the Beast responds with "Because I love her.", showing his growth as a character and how painful it is for him to watch her go, but his willingness to let her have her own happiness over his humanity. In the remake, they give the line to Mrs. Potts "because he loves her", not only making the line more like exposition instead of character growth, but it robs a huge moment from the Beast and takes away from his arc.

[disgruntledcashier]

Someone actually tried to tell me Emma Watson had no autotune on her voice. I can literally hear the pitch bend on every note.

[jennifera]

it's a bit ironic that the animated characters have more personality than the live action characters

[DrDolan]

"I'm never going to marry you, Gaston!"

I was just going to ask you out to Denny's; it's really not that big of a deal

[redramenpls]

Also I found her to act really pompous for a character like Belle, who is sweet and warm, but also firm. Like in the original she greets Gaston politely and even when he gets too ahead she's firm, but done with dignity, which made her naturally the bigger/respectable person. In the live action Gaston was actually nice to her when they meet (considering that everyone in the village apparently hates her when in the original no one actually hated her but just thought her odd) and she immediately shuts him down, she was rude to him and held no dignity. I did not have the respect for the live action Belle like I did with the cartoon.

[ShadowSonic]

So Belle and the Beasts' moms both died? Were they both named Martha?

[alyssabeaulieu]

The sexist literacy is honestly so stupid and actually ironic. It’s really funny because, in this time period they’re trying to represent, female literacy wasn’t something that was frowned upon. There were even magazines for young women! In fact, the original Beauty and the Beast story was published in one! This just adds a whole other level of stupidity!

Thanks Nostalgia Chick for the info I can spread!

[yeetthebeatout]

Tamara: does nothing but dress up and dance with a giant dollar sign
Me: still better than Watson

[Jotari]

This film really shows what a master piece the original was.

[maidmaia]

Disney should have listened to Cogsworth.

"if it's not broke, don't fix it"

[davidrevillii]

Throughout the castle scenes, Belle looks more like she forgot her calculator at the SATs rather than afraid of being in a castle with a beastly looking creature. Actually, scratch that. A person forgetting their calculator at the SATs would look more afraid than her.