Beauty and the Beast is my all-time favorite Disney movie. It not only brings back my wonderful childhood memories but it has created new memories for my children and our growing family. The music, the creativity, and the romance brings joy to my heart every time I watch this film. This movie is truly a classic!

When I was in elementary school I watched this everyday for months. I loved the songs and the story. I went as Belle for Halloween more than once for "Halloween". I still sing "Be Our Guest" when we have company. For my school play I sang "Beauty and the Beast" for my audition. I got the part. It wasn't for a "Beauty and Beast" play but "Carnival". I get to play Lili but I have never seen the play before so my teacher tells me that is good because I might have an original take on the role. (I hope people will like me). The story of this film I was kind of sad the first time I saw it. The Beast was mean and cruel to Belle. Her dad gets locked away and later is told she will never see him again. Well it has a happy ending.

I like the new one not the old one because i like emma waston

As a kid growing up and right up until I watched the film today, I never considered that "Beauty and the Beast" had it's setting in France. Don't know why, it just never occurred to me. However the names of the human and inanimate characters give it away pretty plainly. Nor does one think about the film adaptations to be musicals, but this one is and if you listen to the songs, the word play is pretty cleverly done.With the success of Disney's early animated films, I'm surprised that it took until 1991 to come up with a picture for this story. I've read that Walt Disney tried to adapt "Beauty and the Beast" into a feature film much earlier, but couldn't come up with a suitable treatment. I'd have to say the long wait worked in it's favor, as the movie is definitely entertaining and colorful, with plenty of fanciful and whimsical elements supporting the human characters. I'm surprised a bit at the way Gaston was written, he comes across as a classic chauvinist. But then again, the feminist movement was in full bloom by the time the Nineties rolled around, and what better way to contrast a scholarly, book reading girl like Belle than to have her as an independent, free spirit who deflected his unwanted attention. She might have tried a good right cross to his jaw too, but that would not have retained her femininity.So I'm not much into animated films, but this one was well done and quite entertaining. For a distinctively different visual treat, one must definitely see the 1946 movie directed by Jean Cocteau. It does for classic black and white films what this one did in color, and that's to deliver a wonderful and timeless tale of love and magic. It may be the best interpretation of "Beauty and the Beast" out there.