American society is completely obsessed with nostalgia, No matter how many times you redo, readapt, rehash or reinterpret a story, still the same story. Hollywood is have one of the worst time ever, creatively speaking, about making sequels, rebooting past films or adapting TV shows to movies or viceversa.

Disney new obsession is taking their most famous animated films into live action movies. A great idea, with less work on story development, but more invested into the technical aspects of it. The first attempts: Alice and Wonderland, Cinderella, The Jungle Book and now Beauty and The Beats.

Adapted from the animated film from 1991, “Beauty and the Beast” follow the same plot: a prince (Dan Stevens) very powerful, end up transform into a beast by a beggar in disguise. All the prince servants end up transform into household objects. The only way to cast the spell is when Beast can fall in love and receive love in return by a girl who can see beyond his appearance. Belle (Emma Watson) a rural girl who enjoy loves books and been an outsider in the small she live with her dad. She have a love interest Gaston (Luke Evans), an arrogant former soldier who loves him more than anyone else, with a sidekick LeFou ( Josh Gad) who is just there to boost Gaston ego.

All I can say about this movie is so well done, beautiful costume design, art direction, music and masterful work in visual effects. But I’m completely confused about the main reason of making this movie that long. From an original running time of 84 min to an insufferable 129 minutes of unnecessary songs and plot changes making the film unbearable to watch.

The charm of the first animated movie nominated for an Oscar in the category of best movie, still reigns in the original classic Beauty and The Beast from 1991, this film is a nice rehash, rebrand, re-adaptation or whatever ver “RE” we can add in it. This story only serves as a demonstration for great technical work and some shy political comments, like LeFou being gay, Belle been considered different by the town habitants for being a woman with other interest in life beyond been a housewife.