I borrowed Beauty and the Beast from MJ and Josie and I watched it the other night.  We hadn't seen it in years, not since we owned it on video and Josie watched it twice a day.  It was the first movie she ever fell in love with and when she was two or three, it's all she ever watched.  It was before she discovered the joys of Blues Clues. 

I am a big fan of hand drawn animation.  I own lots of the ancient Disney cartoons on dvd and let me tell ya; art!  I love all the movies Pixar has made, but the strength there is the stories.  Toy Story, Monsters Inc...these are great original stories, brilliantly told.  CGI? Bleh.  You get used to it so fast that is no longer impresses.  But Pinocchio?  That's a work of art that I could stare at for days on end.  Fantasia?  I could have that playing silently on my big screen constantly and it would be better than most of the posters or paintings you could buy.  I miss hand drawn animation.  I miss it a lot.

So I was excited to see Beauty and the Beast again.

The animation is bad.

Bad, bad, bad!!  The backgrounds are pretty enough, although some of them were computer generated (the ball room  in particular caused quite a ruckus back in the day, but now it just makes the figures look out of place) the Beast seems to change size and shape not only from scene to scene but sometimes within a scene.  Belle is simply a disaster.  She moves in ways that humans don't, her face slides around on her head, she looks really pretty in some cels and gruesome in others.  In short, she is nowhere near being on par with Cinderella, Snow White or  Ariel.  Her name should be Malle.

I guess it's just as well that no one's doing it anymore, if that's the best they can do.

 

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