Beauty and the Beast (Disney)

Just got the DVD from the store -- I haven't seen this for over four years or so. It used to be absolute favorite Disney musical (and possibly movie) ever, so it was a bit weird watching it this time. I used to watch it every year or so, and pretend to be Belle, etc.

I think it being my favorite had something to do with the fact that the heroine read (big points) and that it was a retelling of my favorite fairy tale.

It's strange because I can still remember almost every word of it, especially the prologue. I still love the stained glass windows and the music from the beginning.

My brain went through the nitpicks that I've been doing for the past, oh, ten years or so:
- the legend says that the last petal will fall off the rose when the prince turns 21, but in "Be Our Guest," Lumiere says something about "ten years, we've been rusting." So what, the fairy cast a spell on the prince when he was eleven? That hardly seems fair. Either that, or it's a figure of speech. Ah, I fanwanked even back then ;).
- the three girls who are always in the background mooning over Gaston (Pink, Yellow and Green) have their hair style change all the time. It's very annoying. Also, I used to correspond the original three hairstyles of the girls to the hairstyles of Ariel, Belle and Jasmine (what I always though of as the trilogy of Disney musicals). Ariel's floppy bangs, Belle's widow's peak, and Jasmine's part.
- the animation for Belle's face when her father wakes up after being rescued still annoys me, as does the animation for Belle when the strange contraption works for the first time.

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