Beauty and the Beast

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Beauty and the Beast

G

1991

1h 24m

Kids & Family

Fantasy

Animation

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An arrogant young prince and his castle's servants fall under the spell of a wicked enchantress, who turns him into the hideous Beast until he learns to love and be loved in return. The spirited, headstrong village girl Belle enters the Beast's castle after he imprisons her father Maurice. With the help of his enchanted servants, including the matronly Mrs. Potts, Belle begins to draw the cold-hearted Beast out of his isolation.

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Enchanting, sweepingly romantic, and featuring plenty of wonderful musical numbers, Beauty and the Beast is one of Disney's most elegant animated offerings.

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Caroline Siede

Girl Culture (Substack)

May 7, 2026

Where Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, and Ariel all have a certain level of young adult naiveté to them, Belle is the first Disney heroine who feels like a grown woman.

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Catherine Dunphy

Toronto Star

Dec 16, 2024

Yes, it has the innocence that has become a Disney trademark, but there is also an intelligence, sophistication, verve, the kind of kinesis and crackle usually associated with a hit Broadway show.

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Neil Norman

London Evening Standard

Dec 16, 2024

Beauty and the Beast arrives with a cartload of promises that it is a return to the great days of Disney, the art of animation, blah blah. It delivers in spades.

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Bill Cosford

Miami Herald

Dec 16, 2024

3.5/4

This Beauty and the Beast is truly lovely, even haunting. It is a feature-length animation of a quality I'd thought lost forever. The people at Disney have long thrown out the word "magic" entirely too carelessly; they should have saved it for this.

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Bob Ross

Tampa Tribune

Dec 16, 2024

4/4

It's one of those rare treats that merits the illogical label of "instant classic."

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Ben W

Aug 29, 2023

Really great. Another classic. One issue tho, romance between Belle and the Beast was rushed and kind of resembled Stockholm syndrome…

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Isabel

Aug 28, 2023

I love this classic!

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Joseph H

Aug 21, 2023

So happy to see classic movies back in theaters, can remember seeing them when I was a kid and seeing them with my family, makes me feel like a kid again, miss my family and wish they could be here to share these moments again.

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Mike H

@RT53689244 Aug 22, 2026

last 1/2 good...1st half...meeeh

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Katie D

@novagirl11kd Aug 17, 2026

Rewatched this after the D23 Tale as Old as Time celebration, which made for perfect background while I worked on a craft. This time around I noticed how much Belle's voice sounds like Dorothy's from The Wizard of Oz! It's still a great movie, and hearing more about its legacy at the D23 panel made me appreciate it even more. That said, it left me wanting to revisit the live-action remake again too.

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Petros T

@PetrosTserpelis Jul 27, 2026

Aesthetically pleasing, engaging and touching, it stands as an enduring fairy tale in the Disney canon, mostly because everything in it is in good measure. It has quite a few well-written songs, but not too many so as to overshadow the story. Similarly, the comic reliefs are on-point and not overbearing. The villain is not extremely cartoonish, and the same goes for the titular heroes, who have fleshed-out arcs, yet the film never loses sight of the simple fairy tale joys at its core either.

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Synopsis

An arrogant young prince and his castle's servants fall under the spell of a wicked enchantress, who turns him into the hideous Beast until he learns to love and be loved in return. The spirited, headstrong village girl Belle enters the Beast's castle after he imprisons her father Maurice. With the help of his enchanted servants, including the matronly Mrs. Potts, Belle begins to draw the cold-hearted Beast out of his isolation.

Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Producer: Don Hahn
Screenwriter: Linda Woolverton
Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, BV International Pictures [no]
Production Co: Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Silver Screen Partners IV
Rating: G
Genre: Kids & Family, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 13, 1991, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 6, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $219.0M
Runtime: 1h 24m
Sound Mix: Surround

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