Beauty & The Beast: Enchanted Christmas [DVD]

Disney re-releasing Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas this October on Blu-RayAUGUST 7, 2016 BY GARY COLLINSONDisney’s epic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast continues with the re-release Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas this October, just in time for the 25th anniversary of the original animated classic."The Enchanted Christmas" tells a tale set within the story of the original feature, about Belle spreading Christmas cheer within the confines of Beast’s castle during her time there. The film’s all-star voice cast features Robby Benson as Beast and Paige O’Hara as Belle, along with the castle’s enchanted staff including Jerry Orbach as Lumiere, David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth, Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Potts, Haley Joel Osment as Chip, Bernadette Peters as Angelique and Tim Curry as a grumpy pipe organ who threatens to ruin the holiday festivities.Special features for the Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere release include:BEHIND-THE-SCENES FEATURETTE – Step behind the scenes and witness how filmmakers created this irresistible holiday musical adventure — from storyboarding to special effects to the original musical score that lifts holiday spirits.DISNEY SONG SELECTION – Delight in the spirited songs featured in “Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas” and performed by members of the star-studded cast.SING ALONG WITH THE MOVIE – Grab a microphone – or a hairbrush – and sing along to your favorite songs from “Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas.”“AS LONG AS THERE’S CHRISTMAS” – Check out the music video for the uplifting holiday song, “As Long as There’s Christmas,” performed by Swedish pop group Play.ENCHANTED ENVIRONMENT – Bring the crackling fireplace from the Beast’s castle into your own home!DISNEY’S SING ME A STORY WITH BELLE: “STICK TO IT (DON’T GIVE UP)” – Belle shares an inspirational message, encouraging viewers to keep trying and never give up.The DVD will include the sing along with the movie only.Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is set for release on October 25th. Price listed by Disney is $22.95 , a drop from $29.95.

As described

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is one of my "must-watch" videos during the Christmas season. Beauty and the Beast is my favorite Disney movie, and I was not disappointed in this one. The story takes place before the beast is transformed at the end of the original movie, but begins during the first Christmas the couple (and their faithful staff) celebrate. Chips begs Mrs Potts to tell him a story, and thus The Enchanted Christmas. There is a villain, Forte, who tries to prevent Beast from growing closer to Belle, and he is pretty intense. Some younger viewers might find the facial expressions (he is the organ) and loud, dark music to be frightening. There's also a scene where two characters nearly drown.The plot moves along quickly, and even though you know what is going to happen, it won't matter one bit. Belle is sweet and strong-willed, Beast growls and is endearingly vulnerable, and Forte is one of Disney's best and darkest villains. There's humor, too, and a few jokes the adults will catch. The music is lovely and the singing is terrific and includes "As Long As There's Christmas." This appears to be a mix of CGI and traditional drawing. They work well together, though you can tell the difference. Not a bad thing. The colors are beautiful and are not washed out or pale.The original voice actors are featured, along with Tim Curry (who sounds like he a great deal of fun playing the villian Forte) and Bernadette Peters as Angelique. Everyone puts a great deal of effort into their characters and making them come to life. Among the bonuses is a very interesting behind the scenes look at how the video was made.A bit pricey, but for Beauty and the Beast fans, I highly recommend the splurge.

Love this movie

I got this for my wife who is a HUGE Disney Beauty and the Beast Fan (Even through we already have it on VHS and Standard DVD already), Since she threw one of my favorite lines back at me "Life is always better in Blu-Ray" I went ahead and Pre-oredered it for her. When it arrived my wife was like a little school girl getting a special treat for being good, however we did not watch it until 2 nights ago after installing our new Insigna 46inch LCD 1080p TV and man I tell you what it looked so good and so clear that you would have thought we had never seen this movie before. The animation, the artwork, and the CGI was absolutely breath taking. In the special bounus feature they added a christmas back drop to have on that has a fireplace burning with a christmas background and the tradmark Rose on top of fire place mantle along with Christmas music in the background (Great as a back drop for holiday party's). Also new animation was added to the begining sequence of the movie.Insure to watch this on a full 1080p tevelision for the full enjoyment of this movie on blu-ray, I'm defiantly glad we ended picking this up after all even if we own 2 other copy's of this. I would whole heartly recommend it.Movie Background: This story takes place in between the events of after Belle is rescued by the Beast from the wolves (Were the Beast is tended by Belle) and were the the Beast let's her return to her father in the Original Beauty and the Beast Movie, here you learn why the the beast hates the Christmas holidays so much (Hint, Hint, goes into more detail about his tragic fate at the time).

Great Christmas movie to add to my collection.

Me encanta esta película. Por años la he estado buscando, estoy muy feliz que la haya podido encontrar aqui. La película llego super rapido y en perfectas condiciones. Tiene idioma de ingles y español.

Bonne reception, il va completer ma collection de walt disney. C'est la suite de ma collection. il est trés marrant

A Disney sequel and a Christmas film together sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. However, this sequel maintains all the magic of the first film and the christmas element rounds off the film nicely. The film starts after Beauty and the Beast, but flashes back to the previous Christmas when everyone was still under the witch's spell. I love this film so much that I watch it all year round. Still waiting on a region free/UK blu ray release though.

Love this movie! One of my all time favourite Christmas movies. Watched it the same night I got it :)Only gripe about it is that the music video for “As Long As There’s Christmas” by Play! isn’t on the DVD feature list 😕... love that song!