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Summary: The NOT-SO-SPECIAL Edition on DVD!
Review: Arriving in today's post Disney's Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World SE on DVD was a surprise as I had forgotten I had ordered it. The cover is very nice and you can imagine how delighted I was (as a 24 year old male) to have a Belle compact mirror attached to it to add to the excitement.
The DVD loads up showing trailers for Finding Nemo, Stanley March 11th, Lion King SE, Sleeping Beauty SE (with no more news on a release date) as well as the Disney Princess toys/clothing trailer. The nicely animated view of the castle acts at the animated dvd menu. The animation here features swallows oddly flying through falling snow?! Whatever, it's pretty and marked with SFX as well as a subtle underscoring musical narrative from the feature.
Bonus features include Belle's Delightful Dinner Game which actually transpires to a three screen static hide and seek game. Once completed a series of 8 questions to light eight candles results in footage from the feature of Belle and Beast eating dinner.
Disney's Song Collection is less of a collection as two unmemorable songs which can be played with onscreen lyrics. Yawn.
The truly spectacular thing here is the Enchanted Environment - it's an animated change of season taken from the very beginning of the original Beauty and the Beast - the bit with the parting trees and the waterfall. Birds fly, trees blow, snow falls, icicles form, dappled light penetrates through the forest and mists come and go. The music has a very relaxing non-synth sound and you can toggle between five soundtracks or just the SFX. It is probably the best feature of the disc. I love it.
As for the feature I am actually quite disgusted. The dust grains on the feature are too often and too bad for a DVD SPECIAL EDITION!!! I bought Fritz Lang's Metropolis made in 1927 which has a cleaner presentation. The additional CGI linking each tale really does no favours and merely highlights the varied quality - Belle looks disfigured sometimes due to a lack of continuity in her animation. 22 minutes are added and these are pretty good - again making the rest look inferior.
Sneak peeks allow you to view the aforementioned trailers as well as those for the future Kiki's Delivery Service, Stitch! The Movie and Tuck Everlasting. Nothing we haven't seen before.
Instructions: Angle the the free Belle mirror to catch the reflection of the DVD - to fool yourself into thinking this feature is twice what it it is - and then you'll feel you haven't wasted your money!
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Summary: Why?
Review: Beauty And The Beast - Belle's Magical World is sooo bad its not even posible... how can they get a classic like Beauty And The Beast and turn it into this? the christmas one was bad but not nearly as bad as this... i really dont care if disney likes to make bad sequals and prequals and whatever... but what the heck is this? its not even a disney "sequal" cartoon... its a anime gone bad... its just sick i almost cried when i first saw it! how dare they do this? the cover was nice ...so 1 star for that and half a star for using the name " Beauty And The Beast" wich is a classic and will live on forever. i know its a sequal...or whatever it is, but i have seen plenty of disney sequals like (101 dalmations 2, lion king 2, Peter Pan 2...and little mermaid 2 "but not really") this one has no excuse... its unforgivable!
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Summary: Very nice stories and delightful characters.
Review: BELLE'S MAGICAL WORLD really fascinated me from the first time I watched it. My favourite among the stories is Broken Wing, and I also especially like The Perfect Word, although maybe it's meant for a little younger watchers than me. Fifi's Folly is funny as well, but at the first time I was a little disappointed that on the video there was a story with no the Beast at all. The songs, especially the first one, are beautiful as expected. The funniest of the new characters is Webster the Dictionary, and on my opinion, the Beast is treating him and his pen really unfairly. In Broken Wing it's absolutely evident that the Beast is not really what he seems because he doesn't let the little bird remain free, and he is also behaving especially selfishly, imagining he can command a wild bird to sing only for his pleasure. In any case, just because of the theme of imprisoning and setting the bird free that story is the best part of the video.
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Summary: my kids and their cousins love it
Review: for the adults wanting to watch this, yes stay away; i fell asleep. but the kids watch this and all of disney over and over and over ad nauseum. they love it. i gave it 4 stars for their sake. they don't care about inconsistencies...they just love the characters . if disney makes 20 more with the same characters, the kids will want them. i am just happy they are fond of any movie without bloody dismembered body parts, cursing and sex
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Summary: about this animated movie......
Review: I find that the animated characters are well drawn and their kind of reaction and personality breath new life to these characters(which are in fact we people's kind of characters and personality). The movement of each characters resembles that of human life. Disney Amimators and all professionals dealing with Arts, I salute to you for your great work. The story base of this movie is not that good as compared to Enchanted Christmas(where there is a plot) and Beauty and the Beast part 1. I find that there is nothing much to talk about the relationship between each animated characters in the castle but to make up stories to make it more interesting to watch just like our human life. The story of this movie is separated into different parts to talk about Mrs pots, Lumiere and cogsworth etc etc which I find is different from part 1 of Beauty and the Beast and part 2 Beauty and the Beast(The Enchanted Christmas).
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Summary: Why?
Review: I just read some of the reviews for this movie. I must disagree. This is a wonderful movie. It is wrong to be expectant of same or better results from the first movie. This isn't a part III. It's the third movie, but all on it's own. It is targeted for General Audiences of all ages, but mostly aimed towards children. It has a few "short stories". In my opinion, I think it is teaching things to it's young viewers, as well as older audiences of things we may overlook in everyday life. I really think it is worth every penny. I do recommend this movie very much. Please take a chance on it. There are so many new characters, which is a nice touch to it. Take care.
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Summary: Disney's Done It Again!!! :^ )
Review: I just read some of the reviews for this movie. I must disagree. This is a wonderful movie. It is wrong to be expectant of same or better results from the first movie. This isn't a part III. It's the third movie, but all on it's own. It is targeted for General Audiences of all ages, but mostly aimed towards children. It has a few "short stories". In my opinion, I think it is teaching things to it's young viewers, as well as older audiences of things we may overlook in everyday life. I really think it is worth every penny. I do recommend this movie very much. Please take a chance on it. There are so many new characters, which is a nice touch to it. Take care.
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Summary: I enjoyed this!
Review: I really liked this movie as well as the other two Beauty and the Beast! I think they still should have made it a little better though. I feel that there should have been more songs and a soundtrack to this! Why NO SOUNDTRACK DISNEY? I would like a soundtrack to all of the Part IIs! I like most of the songs! I hope someone from Disney is reading this! I cannot wait to get this on DVD to complete my collection! :)
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Summary: A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY CLASSIC STORY!
Review: I THINK THIS STORY TELLS A GOOD SIDE OF VALUES FOR OUR OWN SELVES WHO WATCHES CLASSIC VIDEO'S WITH THEIR FAMILIES!!!!! I LOVE THE CHARACTERS,THE MUSIC,THE BRIGHT COLORS IN THE BACKGROUND,OF EVERY SCENE..I EVEN CRY WHEN I SEE THIS CLASSIC{WELL MAYBE SOMEDAY SOON}.I THINK DISNEY NEEDS MORE OF THESE STORIES IN THE FUTURE...I'M LOOKING FORWARD OF SEEING IT WITH MY DAUGHTER AGAIN,YEARS FROM NOW...
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Summary: It just doesn't work
Review: I tried to do what I did with BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: THE ENCHANTED
CHRISTMAS,which was to make a list of everything that conflicted
with BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. I gave up after a while,because the
whole thing is just {bad}and no one in their right mind would
ever take it seriously.The writing is absolutely awful and the
animation is cruddy at best. The stories don't work at all because the viewer is asked to accept inaccuracies about the
characters. Embarrassing and excruciating to watch.
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