Probably am going to catch a lot of flack for posting this, but I just watched the live action remake of the Beauty and the Beast film. Here are my thoughts:
The castle set was amazing! The dark side of Disney came out and it was beautiful.
The new songs were ok. They added a somewhat new sense of nostalgia.
However...
The whole remake of a classic with using the original songs and trying to incorporate them into a live action form for some reason did not feel right in the film. The previous live action versions of other classics did much better (Maleficent and Cinderella). IMHO, I believe the reason the other live action Disney classic films did better were because they were more of a different take of the original stories and also (this is a big also) that there were NO musical numbers in the other films.
I understand that the other films weren't true remakes of the classics, but I think when Disney tried to do a complete remake of Beauty and the Beast, it felt lacking. Lacking in that they tried to make it more fantastical and over shot it somewhat and the singing...
Again, the new songs were good, but "Belle" sounded like she was singing into a can the entire film (not to mention somewhat auto-tuned). Probably wouldn't have hurt if they dubbed her singing. (Sorry Emma.)
Ok, so there is my critique on that. Feel free to agree or argue. All opinions welcome.
The castle set was amazing! The dark side of Disney came out and it was beautiful.
The new songs were ok. They added a somewhat new sense of nostalgia.
However...
The whole remake of a classic with using the original songs and trying to incorporate them into a live action form for some reason did not feel right in the film. The previous live action versions of other classics did much better (Maleficent and Cinderella). IMHO, I believe the reason the other live action Disney classic films did better were because they were more of a different take of the original stories and also (this is a big also) that there were NO musical numbers in the other films.
I understand that the other films weren't true remakes of the classics, but I think when Disney tried to do a complete remake of Beauty and the Beast, it felt lacking. Lacking in that they tried to make it more fantastical and over shot it somewhat and the singing...
Again, the new songs were good, but "Belle" sounded like she was singing into a can the entire film (not to mention somewhat auto-tuned). Probably wouldn't have hurt if they dubbed her singing. (Sorry Emma.)
Ok, so there is my critique on that. Feel free to agree or argue. All opinions welcome.