stars beauty and the beast 2017 full movie

Even Josh Gad, typically as welcome as a rash, is fine as Gaston’s sidekick LeFou. Ewan McGregor and Ian McKellen are dandy providing the voices of Lumiere and Cogsworth, and Luke Evans amuses as the conceited Gaston. As Belle’s father, Kevin Kline rescues the role from irrelevance – little more than dotty comic relief in ’91, here he’s a fully fleshed-out character with an added backstory that brings him into focus. Starting with Emma Watson, who proves to be absolutely luminous as Belle, the cast is top-flight straight down the line.

While some great individual moments don’t survive the transition - I particularly missed the “If it’s not baroque, don’t fix it” line, which never fails to amuse me - what is transferred unencumbered is a true sense of enchantment and an even truer sense of romance. The plot remains fundamentally unchanged from the ’91 model, and the narrative diversions that have been added along the way are acceptable and sometimes even manage to enhance particular points from its predecessor. In a year in which several of the biggest hits have been little more than sops to fanboys more interested in bloodletting than storytelling, here’s a film that should appeal to all demographics.

What’s truly wondrous is that this new Beauty and the Beast is a powerful piece in its own right, with everyone involved shedding copious amounts of blood, sweat and candle wax to produce a picture that illuminates rather than tarnishes the legacy. Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast (Photo: Disney)Īdmittedly, a live-action version of 1991’s Beauty and the Beast, one of Disney’s all-time great animated features, sounds like nothing more than a cash-grab, an easy way for the studio to make a mint off of gift-wrapped nostalgia.

Stars beauty and the beast 2017 full movie