Product Information
Based on the classic French fairy tale, Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST tells the story of Belle (voiced by Paige O'Hara), an intelligent girl kept prisoner in the castle of a mysterious beast who must somehow win her love if he is to regain his princely form. Features the voices of Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury and David Ogden Stiers.Product Identifiers
EAN8717418275365
eBay Product ID (ePID)102135944
Product Key Features
ActorPaige O'hara, Richard White, Rex Everhart, Jesse Corti
Film/TV TitleBeauty and the Beast
DirectorGary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
FormatBluraydvd
Release Year2010
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesAudio Commentary\Picture-in-Picture Mode\Sing-a-long Mode\'Composing a Classic': A Musical Conversation With Alan Menken, Don Hahn, and Richard Kraft\'Beyond Beauty': The Untold Stories Behind Making BEAUTY AND THE BEAST\Deleted scenes and Alternate opening (boards)\Interactive Games\Classic DVD bonus features
GenreFamily, Animation
Additional Product Features
CertificateU
Number of Discs2
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ReviewsDallas Observer - So enchanting it takes your breath away., Variety - A uniquely elegant and entertaining mix of hand-drawn classicism and high-tech innovation., New York Times - Fresh and altogether triumphant. [A] mixture of elaborate, painstaking technique and perfect simplicity, Los Angeles Times - Wised-up as well as traditional, with a striking and detailed look and a strong storyline, it is sure to charm a wide audience both now and for a long time to come, Time Magazine - Its animators' pens are wands; their movement enchants., Chicago Tribune - Beautifully remastered and containing Cocteau's long-unseen special prologue and credits -- is as much a feat of feverish delight as it was in the dark days of Vichy and WWII., Film Comment - ...Clever....Great funny songs...
Additional InformationBased on the classic French fairy tale, Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST tells the story of Belle (voiced by Paige O'Hara), an intelligent young woman scorned by her townspeople for being a bookworm, weary of fighting off the advances of the arrogant Gaston (Richard White), and dreaming of escape. When her father gets lost in the woods and captured by the forbidding Beast (Robby Benson), a once-handsome prince turned into a monster by a witch, Belle goes off to rescue him. Taken with her, the Beast agrees to release Belle's father if she agrees to stay with him forever. Initially repulsed, Belle soon finds much to appreciate in the Beast's hidden, tender nature. The Beast's servants -- a clock (David Ogden Stiers), a teapot (Angela Lansbury), and a candlestick (Jerry Orbach) -- see Belle as their salvation: if the Beast and a woman fall in love before his 21st birthday, he will be free from the curse.<BR><BR><BR>The songs are first-class, the tale is told with sincerity but not sentimentality, and the characters of Belle and the Beast, complex individuals who defy stereotyping and change over the course of the story, are more three-dimensional than in most live-action movies. With beautifully rendered eye-popping animation, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST certainly deserves its place amongst Disney's animated classics.
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleBeauty And The Beast
VoiceJerry Orbach, Robby Benson, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury
Consumer AdviceContains mild violence and threat