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Free instals Beauty and the Beast1/31/2024 While there is magic here, it's tough to shake the feeling that it's engineered, not organic – that it grazes rather than grabs the heart. But it never feels quite as effortless or natural in telling its story. The film is beautifully performed and designed, and there's plenty of fun (and nostalgia) awaiting fans of its animated predecessor. It makes a good case for updating the tale with more modern sensibilities. To be fair, this brand-new incarnation of Beauty And The Beast, directed by Bill Condon, has a great deal going for it. 25 years later, has the studio managed to capture lightning in a bottle again, this time in live-action format? Well not quite. Disney managed to pull it off in 1991: its sublime animated version, with its tender heart and gorgeous music, has rightly become a classic. In the wrong hands, this romance between a girl and her captor could easily come across as creepy – Stockholm Syndrome parading as a fairy tale. Adapting Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's original French story about a beauty and her beast is no easy task.
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