Major Web Review Sources under one site.
Rotten Tomatoes: By Flixter
Rating: 8.2/10
Enchanting, sweepingly romantic, and featuring plenty of wonderful musical numbers, Beauty and the Beast is one of Disney's most elegant animated offerings.....Read Full Review
Entertainment Weekly: By Lisa Schwarzbaum
Grade: B+
The 3-D version ''dimensionalizes'' the hand-drawn film to intensify the viewer's emotional responses, ideally without drawing attention to the visual jiggering involved. To this animation lover, the variation is more akin to colorization — making the movie something it inherently is not....Read Full Review
Fused Film: By Brett Nachman
Grade: A+
If you’re going to the film expecting Gaston to hold out his flaming torch over the audience, then you will be sorely disappointed, but if you want to re-live the magic of the movie in the theatres once more, then Beauty and the Beast will fail to underwhelm. This is the rare “tale as old as time” that remains timeless to this day.....Read Full Review
Inside Pulse: By Jenny Rebekah
Rating: 4/4
Beauty and the Beast is really a joy to see on the big screen again, and it’s just even more beautiful in 3D. Beauty and the Beast 3D is definitely worth the cost; seeing a Disney film on the big screen is an experience not to miss.
The Globe and Mail: By Jennie Punter
Rating: 4/4
The 3-D pops out to enhance the drama or energy of scenes in which settings are large and integral to the action. Yet despite the splendid new visual presentation, the main attraction of Beauty and the Beast remains its smart, courageous heroine – a “take-charge kind of gal,”....Read Full Review
Slant Magazine: By Jaime N. Christley
Rating: 1.5/4
Better remembered than seen. Mostly, though, it's just strikingly lousy work in almost every frame, to the point where you realize that, at that point in its timeline, Disney's dark days weren't yet fully in the rear-view mirror.....Read Full Review
