libertarirynn:

So yeah the beauty and the beast remake was total trash

They called themselves fixing certain “plot holes“ and just created dozens more. So the enchantress doesn’t curse a 10-year-old, instead she curses a guy who refuses to let a random stranger who broke into his house while he was throwing a party spend the night? And she also sentences all the people in his home not just to a lifetime of being appliances, but a literal fucking death, all because they… Didn’t risk life and limb to tell a tyrannical king how to raise his kid? And an eight-year-old kid is among those who deserve to be sentenced to death for this despite most definitely not having been born when Prince Adam was a child? Also apparently some of the people trapped in the castle had families in the village who are forced to forget about them? The enchantress is 10 times more of a bitch in this version than she was in the original, And that’s saying something.

Also in some scenes it seems like it’s at least a days journey to get to the enchanted castle, yet when Belle sees Maurice getting arrested, she gets permission from the Beast to leave and then hops on her horse and arrives in what had to be about five minutes given that the carriage carrying Maurice to the crazy house hadn’t even driven off yet. And why the hell didn’t she use the fucking teleportation book instead of riding through the wolf infested forest again?

Why did we need the weird plague subplot that didn’t go anywhere? Belle discovering what happened to her mother has literally no effect on the plot. There was no discernible conflict between her and Maurice to begin with, so learning about that did not settle anything. It literally meant nothing other than maybe bonding with Beast over dead moms. And come to think of it they didn’t even do much of that. They barely bonded over anything because they had zero chemistry and all of the nuance of Beast’s character was sapped away and Belle was just a Mary Sue being persecuted for having the audacity to read with a vagina despite the fact that 18th century France didn’t have a problem with women reading and the original story was literally printed in a women’s magazine.

Aside from a handful of decent songs and performances, the whole thing was a waste of time and talent. Not Emma Watson‘s talent mind you, because she has none. I’ve seen high school actresses who could’ve done a much better job, and casting Broadway goddess Audra McDonald just to have her duet with Watson’s no-talent baby voiced ass and also not even be the primary singer of the “Beauty and the Beast” song is unforgivable. 4/10