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Summary: Better than the original!
Review: My girls, ages 4 & 3, like this movie better than the original Beauty and the Beast! (And they liked that one a lot!) If you and your family liked the original, this one will not disappoint you!
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Summary: Belle and Beast Celebrate Christmas
Review: Belle, The Beast, Lumiere, Clogsworth, Mrs Potts and Chip are back to do a seasonal adventure movie. Despite being released after smash hit movie "Beauty and the Beast," it is not a sequel, this story is an added into the events of the first film. Unfortunately, it hasn't got the charm of the original movie though. The story is pretty basic and doesn't really have an interesting story to tell the viewer. Belle wants to have a Christmas party and Beast forbids her, therefore setting the stage for new turmoils with the new bad guy Forte an old organ who is a bit sinister for my likes.
Another new character is a Christmas tree fairy/Angel named Angelique. She is the expert on organizing parties and celebrations. However, other than having an absolutely darling accent she plays little to no part in the movie. It has the usual songs for a Disney Movie which are pleasant and nice but none are not overly memerable. The animation is nice but I would expect none the less from Disney, with the usual vibrant colors. Overall, I would think younger children would enjoy this more and probably would not please more mature children and adults like the first one.
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Summary: Tale as old as time...
Review: "Beauty & The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas" is enchanting. And when you see it on DVD, it's even COOLER! The animation is super, I love the songs, and the story is GREAT! The plot: This movie is all about Belle and the enchanted objects getting ready for everyone's favorite holiday (save of course for my birthday). But the Beast hates Christmas (and probably my birthday, too) and wants to make sure that it doesn't come to the castle this year. The bad dude in the film is Forte, an evil pipe organ with a trusty sidekick named Fife. Forte hates Christmas and anything happy (meaning that he hates my birthday). He also wants to kill Belle, and eat her for Christmas dinner. The songs: "As long as there's Christmas" , a way cool song with a BIG TIME COOL music video on the DVD! I love it. There's the super song, "A Cut Above The Rest". It is SO cool! The only stupid song is "Don't Fall In Love". It gets a big BAD! This movie is so cool! You should buy it! If you do, you'll enjoy it every Christmas for years to come.
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Summary: Lumiere Being Double-Religious Was No Good
Review: I was deeply disappointed when Lumiere (Jerry Orbach) said "Happy Hanukkah" just once although he had been repeating "Christmas" all through the story. I felt an American awkward effort of politically-correctness. Disney should have referred it as "Happy Holiday" from the beginning if they really wanted to make it p.c., or I strongly believe that they should have stuck to Christmas due to the fact that Beauty and the Beast is based in the 17 century, France. Other than that one line, the animation was plain and there was no dynamic movement as Belle did when she was choosing a book in the original movie. The only well-drawn character was the new girl Angelique from the animation point of view. The music was far below the level of the original movie scores by Alan Menken, unfortunately. There was no much for Be Our Guest, Belle, Guston nor Human Again. If you barely know the original movie Beauty and the Beast, there is a chance you'll enjoy the Enchanted Chrismas. If you have seen the original and loved it, your quality bar of its sequences is already set very high. In this case you will be disappointed by the Enchanted Chrismas like me who saw the original DVD more than 20 times, listen to the original sound track CD every day, and even went to see the Broadway musical.
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Summary: great addition
Review: i liked this movie and so did my daughter. this is great for a part 2 video dvd release only.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS VIDEO FOR TODDLERS!!!
Review: This has to be the WORST disney movie I have seen. My three year old begged for weeks for this christmas movie after being marketed by Disney in previews during the first Beauty in the Beast (special edition.) This movie is DARK and scary. I did not see anything about the christmas spirit except they finally get a tree in the end. The movie has a demented organ that sings about love being hateful, and oh yes and the song has the word "hell" in it. I could not believe it. Then Belle almost dies in a frozen lake and is then locked up in the basement prison by the beast. Happy Holidays!!! Too bad I can't give it zero stars.
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Summary: Magical, Enchanting and Whimsical!
Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ENCHANTED CHRISTMAS on DVD is a great family must see. All the original voices are back in this incredibly enchanting story about the Beast not wanting to have Christmas. This allows all our favorite characters to encourage and convince the Beast that he is wrong. The music and score is really entertaining and memorable (there's even a soundtrack for this one) and the visuals are heartwarming and charming. This is a great family Christmas DVD to have and show every year. The DVD extras are amazing too. Sing-a-longs and games for the kids and there is even a fireplace that you can sit and open presents by while listening to Christmas Carols and the crackling of a fire. You should have this one in your collection. Merry Christmas! (12-31-02)
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Summary: Hey, this isn't too bad!
Review: Going by what other reviewers have already said, I bought this DVD as a gift for my brother and sister. Around mid-afternoon on Christmas day, we sat down to watch it. Considering that I'm a lot older than the target audience and a lot more cynical about Disney productions than I used to be, it's to the film's credit that I still enjoyed it. Not near the quality of the original, and not quite up to par with Disney's greatest direct-to-video release Aladdin and the King of Thieves, but still a nice little holiday movie. The movie has many high points. All of the original cast is back, except for Chip, but he's actually been replaced by Haley Joel Osment. This immediately gives this movie some credibility, as the voice actors are all top notch. Joining the cast is another great actor, Tim Curry as the villain Forte. Coupled with some delicious computer animation, Forte is a very worthy villain. He towers over everyone else, accomplishes much evil even though he is bolted to the wall, and is really creepy in human form. Unfortunately, he gets the one dull song in the movie, but thankfully, all the others are top-notch fun. And the animation in general is very good; a few characters look slightly off at times (Lumiere and Cogsworth in human form in the intro, for example), but overall everything has a very warm, rich feeling. So what are the movie's low points? The story itself doesn't disappoint, but it's nothing super special either. It won't match up to other holiday classsics like Garfield, Peanuts, Grinch, and Disney's own A Christmas Carol. And while almost everything fits within continuity with the original, it's best not to think about such things. Just because Belle wore her yellow dress to dance with the beast in the original, does it mean that was the only time she wore it? No, but using the dress again kinda tarnishes the magic of that moment in the ball room. The only glaring continuity error is at the movie's end. While the movie packs in some decent action (which I did not expect from a holiday movie), you'll find yourself wondering how everything was restored back to normal later. Other than this, I wish they had used that lovely feather duster character more instead of making her another background object. And lastly, the movie seems a little too dark at times. If your TV set is darker than normal, a lot of the fine details in the animation will be lost on you. But overall, Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is worth owning. There's good acting and animation, and while the story isn't quite up there, it's worth a repeated viewing, and might in time join your family's lineup of traditional holiday movies.
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Summary: If you have to watch it, rent it, don't buy it.
Review: I got this (the original video release, not the new DVD release) for my wife for Christmas a few years ago because she really liked the movie "Beauty and the Beast." We watched it once and came to the conclusion that it is not suitable for our children until they're older. Our kids are older now, and we still haven't bothered to get it out of storage.
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Summary: Belle's blunder
Review: Belle's singing in this sequel is deserving of 0 stars. There is a line in the "stories" song that is so poorly sung that I couldn't believe my ears. OUCH!
"New and a bit alarming..."
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