Beauty and the Beast (1987)

Excellent, a Must See

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Ohhhh my God, that was dreadful. Okay, DeMornay is quite nice to look at, but the prince looks like a cheap body builder from a cheap advertisement.Yeah, the costumes were nice. But the story was totally empty, lacking emotions, suspense, style, ah, just everything. In the end you just don't understand why she stayed with the prince and fell in love with him cause the dude is boring as hell and delivers one stupid line after another.Never before have I felt less while watching a movie.I guess the two best adaptions of this tale are still the Disney one and the one by Jean Cocteau, with Jean Marais playing the prince / the beast. Go watch those instead and save your time on this empty flick.

Once upon a time and what seems like eons ago... I ran a small in home preschool and childcare. I had quite the collection of children's movies at the time. Some of those movies were viewed so very many times then and over the years by many children, including my own. This is one of those movies that all the children begged to see over and over again. Now all but one of my children have grown and will soon leave the nest (I pray :-) Not all of the movies I acquired over the years have stood the test of time. Some never measured up, some have grown wings and flown away, some are scratched, melted, spliced and diced. Alas we come to those that are worn, torn and tattered and exceedingly loved. This is one of them.

I have always loved Farie Tales, and this is my all time favorite, and I have them all. "The Frog Prince" with Aileen Quinn and Helen Hunt. "Puss N' Boots" with Christopher Walken. "Hansel and Gretel", "Rumplestiltskin", "Snow White", "Sleeping Beauty", "Pinnochio". A couple of those are done by Farie Tale Theatre, but I love the Cannon tales more than anything on earth. With Rebecca de Mornay singing, I never would have imagined she could btw, it's astounding. The cinametogrophy is great, and the script is wonderful. I'm 19, and even my father willingly watches this with me. He says, and I agree, that it just seems so real... and he's not that kind of guy at all!!! John Savage is the most terrific beast I could imagine... other than in the French movie "Beaute et Le Bete" or whatever it's called *lol*. It's an even better version than the Disney Cartoon, which is also one of my favorites. I hope that whoever sees this film on sale buys it (and sends it to me, I need a not worn out one!!!) and cherishes it forever!

I happened to catch this movie on the Disney channel one night when I was about 12. I absolutely adored it as I am I huge John Savage fan. I have been looking for it everywhere and can't seem to get a hold of it. If anyone knows how I can get a copy, I'd love to hear from you!