Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast is said to be one of the greatest Disney Movies ever and yeah I guess I do agree but it's not one of my favourites or even close. But doesn't mean I don't like it, I do. What's the story? In a castle lives a selfish, greedy and vain prince. One night an enchantress comes to his castle and turns him into a beast for treating her so cruel. He was given a magic rose that is slowly wilting away. If he can learn to fall in love and be loved in return before the last petal falls off he'll go back to human. Then we meet a young woman named "Belle." She's the strangest person in her town because she's the prettiest one there but she doesn't taunt herself around. She doesn't hang out with other woman flirting with men, she just read her books and doesn't bother anyone which confuses a very strange town. That is except for "Gaston." In any other Disney movie he'd probably be the hero. But here he's the villain. He's admired Belle for a long time and wants to marry her. But when Belle turns him down he swears to have her as his wife. While that's going on Belle's father named "Maurice" leaves town for an invention convention but find himself at the Beast's castle. But the Beast says he's trespassing and throws him in the dungeon, where Belle finds him later. She makes a deal with the Beast saying she'll stay if he let's Maurice go. The Beast agree and let's Maurice go. While the Beast sees this as an opportunity to finally fall in love he's not very social, in fact he's... well Beastly. But after an incident where the Beast save Belle's life from a pack of wolves she begins to see some good in him. From there there's romance, sadness, action and magic. When people first saw this movie in 1991 they fell in love with it. It was even the only animated film to be nominated for best picture. First let's look at the good stuff. The animation in this looks different. It more smooth, more fluid and more bright and I found it to be really spectacular. Let's also look at the characters. Belle is an enjoyable character. She's kind, smart and just does her own thing. She has a realistic kind of personality which makes her seem more 3-dimentional. And she's definitely one of the best Disney female leads next to Tiana from the Princess and the Frog. The Beast is defiantly the best written character of the movie. He has a defiant personality that does improve over time and you do get to like him more and more as the movie goes on. Gaston is an entertaining villain. He's self-centred, self obsessed and funny. And at first he doesn't start as a villain, just as a jerk. Also I really do like the design of the Beast. He looks an awful like a giant sized were-wolf. Now let's get to my problems with the movie. At first I thought the first few more was pretty boring and some things kind of pointless. Another problem I have with the movie is that something's that Belle and the Beast do are pretty weird and un necessary. My one last problem is the design of the human version of the Beast. But aside from that I think this movie is really spectacular. The songs are great, the animation is great and not just the main characters but the side characters are really memorable. It's just a great movie. This definite watch.