Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) (V)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Andrew Knight

Writers:

Flip Kobler (writer) &
Cindy Marcus (writer) ...

Release Date:

11 November 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Music

Plot:

Belle prepares the castle for Christmas against Beast's wishes, trying to bring him happiness for the season...

Plot Keywords:

Christmas | Sequel | Pipe Organ | Flute | Beauty And The Beast

Awards:

2 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Paige O'Hara	...	Belle (voice)
Robby Benson	...	Beast (voice)
Jerry Orbach	...	Lumiere (voice)
David Ogden Stiers	...	Cogsworth (voice)
Bernadette Peters	...	Angelique (voice)
Tim Curry	...	Forte (voice)
Haley Joel Osment	...	Chip (speaking) (voice)
Frank Welker	...	Phillippe / Sultan (voice)
Jeff Bennett	...	Axe / Poke (voice)
Jim Cummings	...	Various (voice)
Kath Soucie	...	Enchantress (voice)
Paul Reubens	...	Fife (voice)
Angela Lansbury	...	Mrs. Potts (voice)

Also Known As:

Beauty and the Beast 2 (USA) (promotional title)

Runtime:

72 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Sweden:Btl | Germany:o.Al. | UK:U | USA:G | Iceland:L

Company:

Walt Disney Animation Canada

Trivia:

In the early stages of production, the film was planned to be a direct-to-video sequel to the original film, taking place after the events of the first film and featuring Gaston's vengeful younger brother, Avenant, as the villain. Interestingly, Avenant was the villain in the 1946 French film, and the inspiration of the Gaston character, but did not appear in any way in the 1991 film. As the film would no longer be "Beauty and the Beast", however, the filmmakers felt it would lack the magic of the original, and decided to change the story entirely, making it into a midquel. Avenant's goal (to ruin the lives of Belle and the Prince), however, was used in the final scenes of the movie for the film's antagonist, Forte the Pipe Organ (who decided to kill them both to stop the spell breaking).

Goofs:

Continuity: During the course of the movie, the character, Fife clearly has 4 keys/arms, but at the very end of the film, he is seen to clearly to have 6 keys/arms.

Quotes:

Chip: Doesn't look so special to me.
Belle: Oh, Chip, I'm sorry. Nothing's changed.
Angelique: I told you nothing would change. I told you the master would not allow this. I told you Christmas was a hopeless folly. But, I was wrong.
[singing]
Angelique: When I felt lost and lonely, not a dream in my head, your words lifted my spirits high. Remember what you said: As long as there's Christmas, I truly believe that hope is the greatest of the gifts we'll receive. As long as our guiding star shines above...
Belle: [at the same time as Angelique] That hope is the greatest of the gifts we'll recieve. As long as our guiding star shines above...
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) (V)

Soundtrack:

As Long As There's Christmas

Heart warming Christmas Disney spirit

though you can not compare to the Oscar- nominated first it is a nice little masterpiece of it's own I do watch this film at least once around Christmas each year. It is really a worthy sequel to a Disney classic (unlike, Cinderella 2, Lion King 2,fox and the hound 2). And is way better than "Belle's Magical World". And antoher great thing about it is that it's in the middle of the first film, and it happened to not ruin it. Because really if they make a fourth about them now, it's won't be as good because he's not the beast! And the songs are beautiful! "As long as there's Christmas" is great just a good film even with out the first 9/10