Wandering_Fox wrote:
But what did you think of Belle's Magical World? It didn't even have anything like Forte to make ANY of it salvageable...
I'm watching it on my iPad right now as I type this
It's kind of hard for me to resist watching new scenes of Belle and Beast because they're my favorite couple, but still, this looks bad. I like this exchange:
Beast: She makes me nervous, Lumiere. Why is that?
Lumiere: She is a woman, master.
This seems like a step down from the Enchanted Christmas, even animation wise, which is hard to believe.
So the first scene of Belle and Beast is them having lunch and she's telling him the BEST STORY EVER but Beast can't concentrate because he's SO NERVOUS that he gets all hot and bothered and keeps touching his collar and then yells for the windows to be opened, making everyone cold, and he bashes one of the servants, a book named Webster (...), off the table because Webster was annoying him, making Belle upset and she storms off and he FLIPS OVER A TABLE. Man, what a disaster! What's going to happen now?!
Now Cogworth and Lumiere try to mend the situation while Belle and Beast stay alone in their rooms with dramatic music. The servants are getting nervous because WE NEED TO BREAK THE SPELL.
They're already making it seem like Belle just ~needs~ Beast's approval or something. So now they're good again after the servants make Beast apologize by accident...
God, there isn't a real plot to this at all and it's more about Beast and Belle not getting along because of misunderstandings XD
And Beast is a lunatic again as usual. I don't know why the sequels do this. In the first movie at least he had some legitimate reasons for saying "OK FINE THEN YOULL STARVE" "DONT GO INTO THE WEST WING" "WHY DID YOU GO INTO THE WEST WING" "I TOLD YOU TO NOT GO INTO THE WEST WING" "AGHHHH GET OUT."
But here he has this huge temper problem and in the Enchanted Christmas too, where he blows up at anything.
Parchment paper, Quill, and Webster forged a letter of apology and sent it to Belle so that they could get along again. When Beast found out he got so mad he practically was going to kill them and he ran all over the castle trying to find them and Belle had to stand in or then he was going to "do something." So instead he throws them off a balcony and banishes them from the castle.
The three come back to the castle and Belle takes them in and Beast sees how kind she is and feels moved. He asks for forgiveness from everyone and says now he feels happy.
Now they're watching the sunset together with the servants and learning about the power of forgiveness. They leave those two alone to admire the sunset.
OMG the first song... is about forgiveness and listening with our hearts.
What is going on
The next "episode" is about the love between Fifi the Feather Duster and Lumiere, even though I thought he was dating Chandeliera in the first episode. But here they say that Fifi and Lumiere went on their first date last year and now is their anniversary.
Lumiere is trying to get advice from Belle on what to tell Fifi during the anniversary and so Belle told him to tell her what happened on the first date. Fifi overhears and misunderstands and thinks that Belle is only pretending to be her friend and is actually having an affair with Lumiere.
Fifi: She has no shame! He weakens under the spell of the wretched enchantress!
BEST MOVIE EVER. I can't bear to watch the rest, although Fifi and Lumiere make up and have the best anniversary ever. Now Mrs. Potts is having a bad day because of the bad weather.
I don't know what the worst sequel was (I couldn't bring myself to watch them all) but I think from what I saw, it's a tie between the Lady and the Tramp and Fox and the Hound sequels. They are so far removed from the originals, I have no idea how they were conceptualized. Obviously by people who only read the Wikipedia entries for the films and ran from there.
(PS: The Land Before Time sequels are great XD BIG BIG BIG BIG WAAAATER!)
I didn't see either of those, but Pocahontas 2 will always be the worst for me. Don't even get me started. Poor Richard had to sit through me telling him a play by play of the entire movie and just why it was so awful
Just DON'T get me started. I would say it has a better storyline and quality than many of the sequels, but the fact that they changed the character personalities and love interests was THE WORST.
Hunchback of Notre Dame II is nearly tied with that one. It was god-awful too, especially because the art was so beautiful in the first that you can't help but compare the two. Quasimodo gets a girlfriend too, ugh.
Little Mermaid 2 was OK, not terrible, but not good either and I would say the same for Ariel's Beginning.
Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True was very lame (on par with Belle's Magical World), but I did actually enjoy Cinderella: A Twist in Time because the story was fun. It's one of those "what if" things, what if the Stepmother had the Fairy Godmother's wand and prevented Cinderella from succeeding in the end, after the fact. It had the Prince falling in love with Anastasia instead. It was pretty well done and I liked Anastasia's character.
I don't remember Aladdin's sequels besides the wedding, I remember enjoying the Lion King ones, and I don't think I saw any other ones...
OH, Mulan II wasn't so bad, but it wasn't great either.
I don't drink alcohol and I managed to survive through all these
Cerceaux wrote:
I can't even get through Fox and the Hound 1, but then again I don't drink alcohol.
What?? XD I really liked the first one and it made me so sad when the old lady said her poem and left Fox in the woods. And the ending was SO SAD. "You're my best friend Copper. Forever."
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