Rent Beauty and the Beast (1991)
4.1 of 5 from 220 ratings
1h 21min
Bizarrely, in 1991, adolescent male wisdom told me that Terminator 2 was my wheelhouse and Beauty and the Beast was not. I can't understand why?
It’s a lovely thing, genuinely, and only makes me wonder why Disney couldn’t have had the decency to release this during my actual formative years rather than leave me to the mercy of my own teenage idiocy. Angela Lansbury steals the whole film in about four minutes flat, and the gags are pitched generously enough that the grown-ups in the room aren’t just tapping their feet waiting for Stockholm syndrome to resolve. Tale as old as time, and still hard to resist.