Beauty and the Beast (25th Anniversary)

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画質はVHSのイメージがあり不安だったが、40インチのテレビで見ても綺麗です。内容は最高だし、歌もキャラクターも全部最高です。２歳の娘も大層気に入っていて、観始めてからほぼ毎日ベルのドレスを着て寝るようになりました。狼に追われるシーンなど、やや怖いシーンもあると思うので注意が必要です。ちなみにディズニーランドのアトラクションも良かったし、アトラクションの世界観が気に入った人は是非見るべきと思います。

劇中に使われている楽曲も秀逸

観てもいないのに、今まで男尊女卑的だと避けていたのですが、たまたま観たところ、そうではなく、逆に女性の自由な気持ちを暗に代弁している側面もあると感じて、とても好きになりました。面白くてときめきました。

【映像美】中世フランスを舞台にした美しい城や街並み、雪景色などが細やかに描かれており、作品全体を幻想的に彩っています。特に舞踏会のシーンは圧巻で、CGと手描きの融合による流れるようなカメラワークは、公開当時から「アニメーションの歴史を変えた」と言われるだけの迫力がありました。【キャラクター】ベルは知性と優しさを兼ね備え、外見にとらわれず本質を見抜く力を持つヒロインとして今も多くの人に支持されています。野獣は荒々しさの裏に孤独や優しさを秘めており、ベルとの心の交流を通じて徐々に変わっていく姿が感動的です。陽気なルミエールや堅物のコグスワースなど、城の使用人たちも物語に温かみとユーモアを添えています。【音楽】吹替版の楽曲は日本語に自然に馴染んでおり、歌詞がストーリーやキャラクターの心情に直結しているため感情移入しやすいです。特に「美女と野獣」の舞踏シーンで流れる名曲は、映像と一体となって作品の象徴ともいえる名場面を作り出しています。【良かった点】単なるラブストーリーではなく、「人の本当の価値は外見ではなく内面にある」という普遍的なテーマを丁寧に描いているところです。世代や文化を越えて共感できるメッセージ性があり、親子で観てもそれぞれに感じ取れる深さがあります。【気になった点】1991年の作品ということもあり、最新のディズニーCG映画と比べると映像にレトロさはあります。ただし、それがむしろ手描きアニメーションの魅力を際立たせ、温かみを感じさせてくれる面もあるので、一概にマイナスとは言えません。【総合評価】圧倒的な映像美と音楽、そして普遍的なテーマが融合したディズニー屈指の名作です。吹替版は日本語でスムーズに物語を楽しめるので、小さなお子さんから大人まで安心して観られる一本。世代を超えて受け継がれる“ディズニーの宝石”のような作品だと感じました。

名作。何度見ても感動します。

子供達と楽しみました！

前半はベルと野獣に感情移入が難しかったり魅力がないので何だかなぁと思いながら見ていましたが最後はハッピーエンドで終わって良い感じの映画になりましたね星3

What a classic! I notices the italian version was cheaper but you can choose English Audio so this was awesome! Fast shipping and perfect packaging!

I absolutely adore this film for so many reasons but one of them is the immensely likeable cast. Belle is the perfect leading female for this film, and like all Disney 'princesses', she is gorgeous, has a wonderful singing voice, and is destined to live happily ever after! Paige O'Hara voices the character perfectly, from her rich speaking voice full of emotion, to that gorgeous singing voice which captures the innocence of Belle so well, and is now one of the iconic female Disney voices. There's nothing dislikeable about Belle, she's simply perfect and we love her all the more for it. In turn, Robby Benson voices the Beast, and his gruffness works so well with the softness of Belle, and he has a lovely singing voice too in 'Something There'. The fabulous Jerry Orbach voices the candlestick Lumiere, one of my favourite characters in the film, and is cast alongside the amazing Angela Lansbury as Mrs Potts... you'd know that voice anywhere, and she seems perfectly cast as the caring housekeeper-turned-teapot! Each of the cast take their turns in singing roles, and it all comes together to create one of the best Disney soundtracks.One great thing about this film is that there is no complicated meaning to find within it, it's just simply about teaching us that love can prevail when you look beyond the other person's appearance, as Belle is able to for the Beast. Beast is convinced that he is unloveable, and as such treats those around him disrespectfully and rudely. Belle is able to show him the error of his ways and through her attitude and friendliness is able to turn him around and show the gentle, loving side she knows is there. It's a tale of true love, and is extremely emotional to watch, even for an animated film. The gentle scenes involving Belle and Beast are so sweet, with the music accompanying them perfectly, and it is a joy to watch from start to finish. Yes, it's convenient that they start off hating each other and it turns to love, but that is part of the magic of Disney for me! Beast's lesson of learning to change for love is an important one - changing for the better, and as Mrs Potts sings... 'bittersweet and strange, finding you can change, learning you were wrong' - I'm sure we could all take something away from that line.The songs in this film are just magical, and it won't take long for them to be embedded in your musical memory forever! I found myself singing along quietly in the cinema while the main songs in the film played, and I loved them just as much now as I did as a young girl. The movie opens with the brilliant 'Belle', a fairly long musical number introducing us to Belle, Gaston and her village. It's such a happy song, and very iconic for the movie. The wonderful 'Something There' is a duet between Belle and the Beast, with other singing by Lumiere, Cogsworth and Mrs Potts, I particularly love the sequence in the movie for this song, it really shows the change in relationship for these characters. My favourite song, and favourite scene in the whole movie is the absolutely perfect 'Beauty and the Beast', sang beautifully by Angela Lansbury (Mrs Potts). The moment those infamous piano chords hit and Belle emerges in the iconic yellow dress... wow, that is movie history right there, and the audible of the little girls in the audience just made it all the more precious. 'Be Our Guest' is the most uptempo of the numbers, involving the enchanted household objects, and is so wonderful to watch on-screen, full of action, colour and is mesmerising for young children and adults alike... try to avoid singing along to that one!The animation in the film was flawless, and both Harry and I really enjoyed watching the whole thing. It is the traditional style Disney animation, rather than the CGI of their more modern releases 'Tangled' and 'Cars', but it's perfect as it is. Harry had reservations that it was a film for girls, but afterwards told me he loved the Beast and how Belle fell in love with him at the end. Everything about this film comes together to create a cinematic masterpiece, and became the first animated movie to nominated for the Best Picture Oscar... rightfully so too. There's something magical about watching the beautiful girl fall in love with the Beast, and the magic surrounding them both... no matter how old you, you can't fail to be moved by the movie, especially that tear-jerker of an ending. Every little girl will want to be Belle after watching this, and I could watch that famous ballroom scene again and again. I loved everything about this movie, and the fact it is still so popular 22 years after it's release speaks volumes - amazing Disney at it's best.

Wer kennt nicht die unzähligen Meisterwerke von Disney. Die Schöne und das Biest haben in diesem Jahr den Weg aus dem Tresor gefunden und wurden in der zweiten Auflage als DVD veröffentlicht.Bei dieser DVD hat sich Disney mühe gegeben und wirklich den Ton und das Bild digital restauriert. Die Farben sind kräftig, das Bild scharf, der Kontrast gut und Bildübergänge der Produktion nicht sichtbar.Der Ton ist klar und kommt sauber rüber. Als Ausgabemedium nutze ich ein Harman & Kardon BDS 800/230.Interessant sind auch die Extras, wo man sich die Entstehungsgeschichte des Films ansehen kann. Wie immer sind auch wieder Audio Kommenztare vorhande und eine Funktion die einem das Einblenden der Liedtexte ermöglicht.Über den Film braucht man nicht viel zu sagen, jeder kennt ihn weswegen ich auch nicht viele Worte verlieren möchte.Wie früher üblich hat auch dieser Film einen tieferen Sinn. Man lasse sich nicht von Äußerlichkeit blenden, sondern schaue in das Innere eines Menschen. Solche Filme werden heute leider nicht mehr produziert.Fazit: Die Schöne und das Biest, ein Film den man mit Verstand als Erwachsener genießen und als Kind zur Unterhaltung ansehen kann. Ein wunderschön produziertes Stück internationaler Trickfilmkunst im digital überarbeiteten Format. Auch heute noch gut anzusehen. Nicht nur wegen den Kindheitserinnerungen, auch wegen der gelungenen Neuauflage. Volle Punktzahl.

It came in great condition and the movie is super nostalgic. One of my favourite Disney movies for sure!

Everyone has that special movie about which it is impossible to be objective. This is that movie for me. I saw it first when my son was seven and he brought it home when a schoolmate loaned it to him. It instantly became a favorite in our house. My son, my daughter, and I have a special bond that this film signifies to this day. From the moment Belle sings, "I want much more than this provincial life," you know you are going to have an experience that goes beyond the ordinary, and you get one that goes beyond your wildest dreams. This film goes into superlatives that leave you breathless.It is hard to list all the summa cum laudes in this film. Disney broke new ground in this film by using a UNIX workstation for the ballroom scene that enabled a three-dimensional representation of the dance sequence, showing Belle and the Beast dancing through the ballroom under the chandelier. The movie features the voices of Paige O'Hara (Belle), Robby Benson (Beast), Jerry Orbach (Lumière), David Ogden Stiers), Mrs. Potts (Angela Lansbury), Chip (Bradley Pierce), and Wardrobe (Joanne Worley). Alan Menken's musical score is outstanding; the title song won the 1991 Best Song Oscar. The combination of a winning score, superb animation, and an unusually magical depth that the cast manages to create -- the viewer will be too spellbound while watching it to be able to say what it is that captivates so totally -- makes this film one that is not to be missed by young and old alike.The story is a traditional tale of a prince turned into a beast by a spell cast by an enchantress. The spell can be broken only if, by the end of his 21st birthday, he falls in love with someone who will also love him. An enchanted rose blooms as a symbol of the spell, and the last petal will fall at the end of the spell.The beauty is a beautiful woman, Belle, in a small French village, who is very intelligent and reads voraciously. She spends much of her time dreaming of living in the worlds she reads about in the books, any place other than the provincial village life she knows. She lives with her father, Maurice, a rather eccentric inventor, and both of them seem to be regarded as odd and unconventional types by the village residents. Gaston, a handsome but arrogant hunter, hopes to marry Belle for no other reason than to be able to say that he has married the most beautiful woman in the village; it is a matter of ego more than feeling, because he admits to no real feeling for anyone other than himself.Maurice heads out for a fair but goes astray from the path and ends up at a castle. The castle turns out to be enchanted, and the ornaments at the castle turn out to be lifelike beings who welcome him. Cogsworth, the pompous clock, Lumière, the romantic candlelabra, Mrs. Potts, the motherly teapot, and Chip, the boyish teacup, all welcome him. All is well until the master, the surly, growling Beast, enters the room, shouting that Maurice is not welcome and takes him prisoner. At a later time in the film, when Belle comes looking for her father, Belle begs the Beast to let her take her father's place, so she becomes the Beast's prisoner.The clash of the high-spirited Belle and the ill-tempered Beast is inevitable, for when the Beast loses his temper with Belle and frightens her, she tries to flee him. Wolves try to attack her, and the Beast comes to her rescue. Somehow the incident draws them together, and the resistance slowly causes the two to start to relate to one another. Before long, the two have become very close. The Beast allows Belle to look into his enchanted mirror, and she sees her father is quite ill. When the Beast sees how distressed Belle is, he releases her.When Belle goes back to her father, she realizes that her feelings for the Beast have changed. As she and Maurice discover, Gaston, in an attempt to intimidate Belle into marrying him, have plotted to put Maurice into an insane asylum. When Gaston discovers that Belle has developed affections for the Beast, he leads the townspeople on a lynch to destroy the Beast.As the lynch mob approaches the castle, all the objects in the castle prepare for the onslaught. Furniture, kitchen utensils, decorations, virtually every object in the castle, turn on the townspeople, and defeat them in the battle. They rejoice in their victory in the end.The only persons left in the battle are Gaston and the Beast. The Beast is so depressed because he has lost Belle that he does not resist and lets Gaston assault him. Suddenly Belle appears, and the Beast rises up against Gaston, throwing him from the castle roof. The Beast is in Belle's arms, dying, as Belle tells him that she loves him. Suddenly, in those last moments, the last petal of the rose falls and the spell is broken. The Beast is transformed into a man. The objects again become human, and the movie ends happily.Somehow at all the right moments in the film, the songs come in to give the story a push forward. Whether it is the opening song that introduces Belle and explains why she can never be content with the life in her little viilage, the song of the conceited Gaston that tells why he can think of nobody in the world except himself, the song that signals the turning point in the relationship between Belle and the Beast, or the title song itself, the music graces the film in the most miraculous way. The film went on to become a Broadway hit as well, and one of the songs from the Broadway play, "Human Again," that was not in the original movie was added in later versions.Too often when the words "entertainment for the whole family" are used, the words mean "boring and awful." Many adults also think of animated films as too juvenile to be good. Such prejudices should be cast aside when viewing this film; it is pure pleasure from start to finish.