[100 Things] My DVD Collection: Beauty and the Beast & Beastly

 

Disney's Beauty and the Beast is my second all time favourite Disney movie (after The Little Mermaid) and whilst Beastly intrigued me, I wasn't so sure I was going to like a modern retelling - I was so wrong.

Whilst Belle learns to love an apparently ferocious but potentially cuddly Beast in the cartoon, Lindy gets to know and ultimately falls for the cursed young man covered in ugly scars and tattoos. Both get their handsome prince in the end, after both they and their 'beasts' have seen through the facade of skin-deep beauty to what lies beneath.

Its the same story in VERY different interepretations, but both work so well. I go back to the cartoon because its pretty and the songs are fun, but the teen movie has raw emotion and the modern twist is very cool and surprisingly real for something of the fantasy realm.

And of course in both versions, everyone lives happily ever after ;)

Side-note: For Beastly, I suggest anyone with the dvd watches the alternate ending - it is far superior to the actual ending, IMO!