BY SOPHIE B

Movie Review

Beauty and The Beast

This movie is perfect. And not just for young girls who like talking kitchen implements and princess dresses, but for boys and older children too. It has an ideal mix of fantasy and real life. That is a lot of fantasy and just a sprinkle of legitimate reasoning behind it. It puts Belle into a good light, describing her as a good-hearted adventure seeker rather than just another girl who wants to run away from home.

The quote: “I want adventure in the great wide somewhere, I want it more than I can tell.” gives you an insight into the plot. It tells you that Belle definitely wanted to leave and find adventure. It is sung by Belle after Gaston asks her to marry him, of course she refuses and soon after that Maurice and his horse Phillippe get lost in the forest. He comes across a castle in which a monstrous beast lives. The beast servants; Lumiere the candlestick, Cogsworth the clock, Ms Potts the teapot and her son Chip the teacup, offer help to him but as soon as the beast finds out Maurice is imprisoned. When Belle discovers the castle with help from Phillipe she, as we knew she would, offers to take her father’s place.  And of course the beast concedes and she stays at the castle.  Eventually the beast and Belle fall in love. Although there is one twist, Gaston has managed to convince the villagers to kill the beast. From there the princess saves her father and the prince and the movie pans out to be a rewarding fable of love and friendship.