Emma Watson was pretty enough most of the time, and her singing was surprisingly good enough, albeit with a little auto-tune help.

I thought Luke Evans nailed the part of Gaston.

In fact, the entire cast did an admirable job of living up to the original, but I'll take the cartoon any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Took my daughters to see it this weekend and they loved it. I was 17 when the cartoon was released so I never saw it until after my kids were born so there's no nostalgia element in it for me (plus I'm a guy, so...).
But I thought it was pretty well done. We enjoyed it. It was wonderful looking over at my 4 year old just completely lost in a wonderful fantasy world. She was slapping her hands on her knees to the beat and grinning ear to ear during "Be our guest". That kinda stuff makes movies like this worthwhile for me.

So far it has set records for highest grossing:

1. Fantasy Live Action over The Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies
2. Musical over Grease
3. Opening weekend G or PG Movie over Finding Dory
4. Opening weekend March release date over Batman v Superman
5. Opening weekend Spring release date over Batman v Superman

#4 all time Second Weekend after The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, and the Avengers which means people are seeing it more than once in theaters.

It's brought in $875 million so far worldwide, and is on pace to hit about $1.5 BILLION total. Might challenge the Avengers for second place all time Disney Movie behind The Force Awakens' $2 billion!

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GiveEmHellBill said:

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Just saw it.

Enjoyed it, but it was good....not great. The added scenes and songs were fine. But as another poster said, there's just something that I can't quite put my finger on.

Well, one thing was some sketchy CGI. Most of the scenes were someone was looking out a castle window, the interior didn't look right against the castle exterior. Also, some of the scenes with them walking around the grounds were quite obviously green-screened.

The best part of the whole thing IMO were LaFou and Gaston.

Also, I never got a sense as to where the castle and village were in relation to each other. At times, it took hours to travel between them, other times minutes. It was a little confusing.

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They showed where the castle was during the Disney intro. It showed the village by the river at night and then panned out to the castle (replacing the Cinderella castle that they typically use). Bc of the spell, none of the villagers could see the castle unless they actually went to it.

agnerd said:

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So far it has set records for highest grossing:

1. Fantasy Live Action over The Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies

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While this is true, just want to set one thing straight.

And yeah, back when we were talking about potential box office for this, I and several others pretty much had it pegged at $1.5 billion worldwide.

Crazy thing is, Disney still has Pirates of the Carribbean, Cars 3, and a little movie called Star Wars: The Last Jedi dropping this year.

They're going to clear $5 billion.

Kind off topic but, TCTTS - any idea why the distribution company is still known as Buena Vista? Why not just change the name to Disney?

I actually thought they had but Box Office Mojo still has them labeled as Buena Vista.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/?view=company&view2=yearly&yr=2016&p=.htm

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I haven't seen La-LA Land but I know Watson choose poorly.

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Based on how much money she is making in this over what she would have made, looks like she is a genius to me

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She's rich AF. She wants golden statues. That performance isn't worthy.

Plus, Gaston sings about eating 5 dozen eggs everyday. He'd need a fortune to keep that many chickens to produce 5 dozen eggs a day.
https://np.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/61kmto/how_many_16th_century_french_laying_hens_would_be/dffp9p9/?context=3

But he doesn't read.

GiveEmHellBill said:

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Rich or not, ultra-feminist or not....she knew what taking this role would mean to her life: she's now and forever a Disney Princess. And one of their most popular, as well.

I think that's worth skipping La La Land for. Disney immortality vs. a movie that'll only be a trivia question answer (What movie was incorrectly announced as Best Picture?).

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She needs a role where she can show some emotion and chemistry with a male lead. She was a cold fish.