VHS : Beauty and the Beast (Disney Special Edition)

Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
Brand: Disney
EAN: 0786936172980
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Home Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video
Release Date: October 08, 2002
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 22, 1991
Sales Rank: 138
MPN: 17298

Features:

Special Edition
Featuring an all new Musical Sequence
VCR Edition
Disney

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Editorial Review:

Description:
Disney's most acclaimed and beloved film just got even better! With its incomparable blend of magic and award-wining music, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST won the prestigious Golden Globe for Best Picture (1991, Best Comedy or Musical) and is the only animated film ever nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award(R) (1991). Now magnificently restored and remastered, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST SPECIAL EDITION features an all-new song, "Human Again," seamlessly integrated into the film. And in this groundbreaking 2-Disc Platinum Edition DVD, you'll enter the Beast's castle and explore its many secrets -- with three versions of the film, never-before-seen movie secrets, exciting games featuring all-new animation, and more! Disney magic reigns supreme in this triumphant 2-Disc Platinum Edition DVD -- a must for every DVD library!

Amazon.com essential video:
The film that officially signaled Disney's animation renaissance (following The Little Mermaid) and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. It relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the Beast (a prince whose heart is too hard to love anyone besides himself), Belle boldly takes her father's place, imprisoned in the Beast's gloomy mansion. Naturally, Belle teaches the Beast to love. What makes this such a dazzler, besides the amazingly accomplished animation and the winning coterie of supporting characters (the Beast's mansion is overrun by quipping, dancing household items) is the array of beautiful and hilarious songs by composer Alan Menken and the late, lamented lyricist Howard Ashman. (The title song won the 1991 Best Song Oscar, and Menken's score scored a trophy as well.) The downright funniest song is "Gaston," a lout's paean to himself (including the immortal line, "I use antlers in all of my de-co-ra-ting"). "Be Our Guest" is transformed into an inspired Busby Berkeley homage. Since Ashman's passing, animated musicals haven't quite reached the same exhilarating level of wit, sophistication, and pure joy. --David Kronke --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Beauty and the Beast
This product was in excellent condition and arrived within one week of my ordering it.

Rating:

- Yay!
What an awesome movie. The seller was awesome and took care of the problem right away.

Rating:

- very pleased
I was very pleased with the purchase, came in a resonable time and was in the condition the seller listed it as.

Rating:

- gotta love Belle....my daughter does :)
so wonderful to see this again, my 2 1/2 year old can't get enough... i'm sure we'll wear out the disk before she's 3. :)

(anecdote - we recently were in New York City, and upon passing St. Patrick's cathedral, my daughter started hollering 'hi Princesses! hi Belle! I'm your friend, are you home at the castle???" :)

Rating:

- disney
i loved this movie when it first came out. i lost it and now i am glad to have it back in my collection again

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