Review of Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and The Beast might be my 2nd favorite movie of all time (I said favorite, not best). This movie seems to focus more on Beauty's family relationship and tries to make a simple fairy-tale seem epic and GG, but here's the thing: Beauty and The Beast wasn't written as a epic story, it never was meant to be one. It is simply "see beyond the appearance". I understand that the director wanted to show a more dark version of said fairy-tale and that's fine... As long as you keep your main focus on the title characters. There's a reason Belle's brothers or sisters blend with the background in the original tale. They are there solely to illustrate things. The main part is the Belle - Beast relationship that we do not get in this film. Even when the Beast turns back into the charming prince, Belle just sorta stands there mentally saying: "Eh, you are alive. Yay, I guess." My mom stayed awake til midnight to see her favorite movie and, by the end she just cursed the hell up because the movie was just disappointing to say the least. I praise it for having great costumes and astonishing set, but If you wanna get the heart of this tale, go look into the Disney version. For that movie knew where the core point lied, staying true to a aspect of the story that this 2014 version, that tried so hard to stick to the source material, missed.