Beauty and the Beast
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Beauty and the Beast

Be our guest.

2017 • 129 min • Family · Fantasy · Romance

Synopsis

A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.

Our family guide

Best from age 6
93
Movie Knight Score
16108 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 8 · 75%
  • 70 Audience · 16100 · 25%

A young woman, Belle, bravely enters an enchanted castle to save her father, encountering a cursed Beast and his magical servants. She learns to look beyond appearances, finding kindness and love within the castle walls as she tries to break a powerful spell.

Violence & peril
3/10
Language
1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
2/10
Romance & sensuality
2/10
Scary moments
4/10

Heads up

  • Some peril and intense moments with the Beast
  • Mob violence and fighting scenes
  • Brief moments of drinking and implied intoxication
  • Belle is held captive for a time

What it models well

  • Inner beauty and kindness triumph
  • Courage and self-sacrifice
  • Reading and curiosity are celebrated
  • Breaking down prejudices

Talk about it after

  • Judging others based on their appearance
  • The importance of empathy and understanding
  • Consequences of vanity and cruelty
  • Sacrificing for family

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Top billed cast

Director: Bill Condon • Crew: Stephen Chbosky, Evan Spiliotopoulos

Trailers & clips

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DVD Trailer

Mini Belle and the Beast

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Tale

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Reviewer notes

Recommended

A little like "Into the Woods" (2014) this is a technically ambitious attempt to reconcile animation and live action with an excellent cast. Again, it works spectacularly as a piece of cinematic innovation - but has no spirit. We know the story: a vain Prince is cursed by a sorceress to remain shut up, hideously disfigured, in his castle until the spell is broken by true love's tear. "Belle" (Emma Watson) does wel...

Recommended

Very disappointed in this movie. I was expecting it to be as good as the cartoon one, but it wasn't. It was actually kind of boring. I also didn't buy in to thier chemistry at all. It looked really cool though.

Recommended

**An admirable adaptation of a classic tale.** One of the best live-action Disney adaptations, even though that isn’t difficult to achieve, Beauty and The Beast (2017) excellently transports the audience into the magical world of the Beast’s magical and cursed castle. The scale of the tiny claustrophobic village contrasted with the grandiose halls of the enchanted clearly presents the different worlds of the ma...

Recommended

What a fantastic movie with great graphics. I was amazed at how well the beast was rendered, you never had to think about the fact that it was CGI. The story kept my entire family interested and scared to leave for popcorn. My only concern was the gay references, I don’t think there was any added value other than shock, and **I don’t like shock in my Disney movies**. Moving forward, the story was easy to follow ...

Recommended

JUST INCREDIBLE > I fell in love with that movie!The actors performed fantastically and the effects were so well-maid.It is a classic movie.The best Beauty and the Beast version!!The alive castle was so magical,the effects so realistic and the characters so sympathetic...It was just PERFECT!

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

**Only beauty would conquer the beast!** This is not the first time screen adaptation, that means every one of us have seen either version of the films according to what generation we belong. Mine was the animated one and then there was a modern-day version called 'Beastly'. Not to forget there's a recent French version made on the big scale that I yet to watch. So it's not about the story at all. It is about t...

Recommended

Disney's done a great job with Gaston and The Beast, the two aspects that I always thought would be the most important, and the most difficult, to nail. _Final rating:★★★ - I personally recommend you give it a go._

Recommended

**Spoilers** The live action remake of "Beauty and the Beast" was good, but it failed to capture the magic of the cartoon version. There were somethings that they got right, and others that dragged on. I thought "Be Our Guest" was done beautifully. The 3d made it even more enchanting. The main characters' backstories also added some depth to them. However, there were some scenes that I felt added nothing to ...

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