Beauty and the Beast (Special Platinum Edition)
by Gary Trousdale
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Actor: Angela Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Orbach, Paige O'Hara, Robby BensonDirector: Gary Trousdale
Composer: Alan Menken
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-08
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Movie Reviews of Beauty and the Beast (Special Platinum Edition)
Movie Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great Disney Film. Very Romantic. The music is fabulous. All the extra supporting characters, like the tea pot, candle and broom. Are great comic relief characters. Great songs in here.
Summary of Beauty and the Beast (Special Platinum Edition)
The film that officially signaled Disney's animation renaissance (following The Little Mermaid) and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. It relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the Beast (a prince whose heart is too hard to love anyone besides himself), Belle boldly takes her father's place, imprisoned in the Beast's gloomy mansion. Naturally, Belle teaches the Beast to love. What makes this such a dazzler, besides the amazingly accomplished animation and the winning coterie of supporting characters (the Beast's mansion is overrun by quipping, dancing household items) is the array of beautiful and hilarious songs by composer Alan Menken and the late, lamented lyricist Howard Ashman. (The title song won the 1991 Best Song Oscar, and Menken's score scored a trophy as well.) The downright funniest song is "Gaston," a lout's paean to himself (including the immortal line, "I use antlers in all of my de-co-ra-ting"). "Be Our Guest" is transformed into an inspired Busby Berkeley homage. Since Ashman's passing, animated musicals haven't quite reached the same exhilarating level of wit, sophistication, and pure joy. --David Kronke --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Animation DVD Video
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