That scene?
It gets me every time!
Oh come on, you didn't think that animated features would be left off this list, did you?
Not from this reviewer.
And the first to hit the list (but it won't be the last, I assure you) is one of the jewels that restored the luster to the Walt Disney Company. Beauty & the Beast takes the classic fairy tale and works the Disney magic to make this version, THE version.
Gorgeous animation? Check!
Memorable songs? Check!
Disney princess? Check!
Cute & Funny Sidekicks? Check!
Of course Disney works around the cute animal schtick this go-round, and instead turns in the cute sidekicks in the form of enchanted household items that work at Beast's mansion.
When you take Cogsworth and Lumiere and give them the voices of David Ogden Stiers and Jerry Orbach, well, I could watch those two in an entire movie by themselves, and I would have been happy.
But no, Disney wisely invested the audience in a love story that unfolds before your eyes. You KNOW what is going to happen, and yet by the time Angela Lansbury begins singing the title song in the scene pictured above...
Yep, Disney gotcha again!
Heck, the only flaw the movie really has is at the end. The Prince has a big honking nose.
He actually looked better as the Beast.
Ah well, what can you do? You can't change the source material....
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