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

Director:

Andrew Knight

Writers:

Flip Kobler &
Cindy Marcus ...
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Release Date:

11 November 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Fantasy | Music | Musical

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)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Judith Blazer	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Jeff Blumenkrantz	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Victoria Clark	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Kevin Dorsey	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Gregg Edelman	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Judy Kaye	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Andrew Keenan-Bolger	...	Chip (singing) (uncredited)
Rebecca Luker	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Howard McGillin	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Gene Miller	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Lauren Mitchell	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Bobbi Page	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Wilbur Pauley	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Andrea Robinson	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Sharon Scruggs	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Ted Sperling	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Carmen Twillie	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Martin Vidnovic	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Maxine Waters Willard	...	Chorus (uncredited)
Oren Waters	...	Chorus (uncredited)

Directed by
Andrew Knight		(as Andy Knight)

Writing credits
Flip Kobler		&
Cindy Marcus		and
Bill Motz		&
Bob Roth

Produced by
Susan Kapigian	....	line producer

Original Music by
Rachel Portman

Film Editing by
Daniel Lee

Production Design by
Brad Graham

Art Direction by
Julie Eberley
Clive Powsey

Production Management
Susan Kapigian	....	production manager: Toronto
Stephen Swofford	....	post-production supervisor
Randi Yaffa	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bill Speers	....	assistant director (as William Speers)

Art Department
Mike Burgess	....	storyboard artist
John Dorman	....	storyboard artist
Andrew Knight	....	storyboard artist (as Andy Knight)
Denise Koyama	....	storyboard artist
Steve Moore	....	storyboard artist

Sound Department
Andy D'Addario	....	sound re-recording mixer
Louis L. Edemann	....	supervising sound editor
Ronald Eng	....	supervising sound editor
Brian Magill	....	original dialogue mixer
Ken Miller	....	assistant sound editor
Julie Offer	....	pdl
Tracey Willsie	....	dial supervisor

Visual Effects by
Robert Armstrong	....	additional effects assistant animator (as Rob Armstrong)
Jeff Astolfo	....	effects animator: Toronto
James M. Clow	....	effects animator: Vancouver
Bob Cowan	....	senior effects animator: Toronto
Lorenzo Del Bianco	....	effects animator: Toronto
Bert Dennison	....	additional effects animator
Hilary Denny	....	additional effects animator
Mark Evans	....	compositor
Roberto Fiumano	....	digital compositor
Brian Foster	....	CGI animator: Toronto
Natalie Garceau-Turner	....	additional effects assistant animator
Russell Heyman	....	effects animator: Vancouver
Paul Hunt	....	CGI animation supervisor: Toronto
Paul Hunt	....	CGI animator: Toronto
Glenn Jeffs	....	additional effects assistant animator
Paul Johnson	....	effects animation assistant: Vancouver
Ronald Kilbride	....	effects assistant animator: Toronto (as Ron Kilbride)
Louise Kiner	....	effects animator: Toronto
Kiyoshi Kohatsu	....	animator
Gary Lambeth	....	additional effects assistant animator
Beverly Lehman	....	additional effects animator
John Lin	....	CGI layout artist: Toronto
Douglas Little	....	technical director
Charlene Logan	....	visual effects artist
Mike Luney	....	additional effects inbetween artist
Elias Macute	....	compositor
Ian Mah	....	additional effects animator
Mike McKay	....	additional effects animator (as Michael McKay)
Biljana Milicevic	....	additional effects assistant animator
Syeda Multani	....	additional effects assistant animator (as Sadaf Multani)
Simon Northwood	....	animation department
Maureen Olson	....	additional effects assistant animator
Gary L. Page	....	technical supervisor
Raymond Pang	....	additional effects animator (as Ray Pang)
Bill Pong	....	CGI animator: Toronto
Debra Pugh	....	additional effects assistant animator
Allison Ryckman-Chisolm	....	additional effects assistant animator (as Allison Ryckman)
Ryan Smith	....	compositor
Sean Sullivan	....	CGI animator: Toronto
Karen Tremblay	....	additional effects assistant animator
Dan Turner	....	effects supervisor: Toronto
Leesa Tynan	....	additional effects animator
Chad Van De Keere	....	effects animation assistant: Vancouver
Seung-Soo Yun	....	effects assistant animator: Toronto
Trevor Brown	....	additional effects assistant animator (uncredited)

Animation Department
Sid Ahearne	....	animator: Sydney (as Sid Aherne)
Deborah Ahee	....	inbetween supervisor: "Beast"
Melanie Allen	....	additional assistant animator
Jeff Amey	....	additional inbetween artist
Chito Ang	....	additional assistant animator
Silvio Arlenghi	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Simon Ashton	....	animator: Sydney
Jeff Astolfo	....	additional animator: "Beast"
Kyung-Hee Baker	....	lead assistant animator: "Belle"
Rebecca Barclay	....	color key stylist
Yosh Barry	....	layout artist: Sydney
Rob Barton	....	additional inbetween artist
Jee Chan Baylis	....	assistant animator: "Belle"
Andre Beaulne	....	inbetween artist: "Belle"
Mark Beaumont	....	inbetween artist: "Beast"
Davide Benvenuti	....	animator: Sydney
Steven Boeckler	....	inbetween supervisor: feature characters
Vittoria Bologna	....	additional assistant animator
Denise Boudreau	....	assistant animator: Vancouver
Eli Braga	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Anne Brand	....	lead assistant animator: feature characters
Darren Brereton	....	animator: Vancouver
Catherine Brockhouse	....	background artist: Toronto
Donna Brockopp	....	animator: Vancouver
Andrew Brooks	....	animator: Sydney
Mike Brooks	....	layout artist: Toronto (as Michael Brooks)
Daryl Brougham	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Simon Brown	....	animator: Sydney
Mike Burgess	....	character designer
Blayne Burnside	....	layout artist: Toronto
Christina Butterfield	....	additional inbetween artist
Lee Cadieux	....	assistant animator: "Beast"
Scott Cameron	....	background artist: Toronto
Peter Candeland	....	animation director (as Pete Candeland)
Peter Candeland	....	senior animator: "Beast" (as Pete Candeland)
Linda Catchlove	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Rob Chaplin	....	layout artist: Vancouver
Stan Chiu	....	animator: Vancouver
Eunice Choi	....	assistant animator: "Belle"
Younsik Choi	....	animator: "Belle"
Roger Clarke	....	animator: Sydney
Noel Cleary	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Scott Collie	....	additional animator: "Beast"
Scott Collie	....	lead assistant animator: "Beast"
Andrew Collins	....	supervising animator: Sydney
Ted Collyer	....	additional layout artist
Michael Comino	....	clean-up co-lead: Sydney
Kevin Compty	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Brian Coughlan	....	layout artist: Toronto
Greg Court	....	additional animator
Debbie Cramb	....	inbetween supervisor: Sydney
Brian Creswick	....	additional assistant animator
Rowena Cruz	....	additional assistant animator
Gabor Csakany	....	background artist: Vancouver
Abeth De La Cruz	....	layout artist: Sydney
Gerard de Souza	....	assistant animator: Vancouver
Claire de Zoete	....	animator
Barry Dean	....	background artist: Sydney
Trevor Deane-Freeman	....	animator: "Belle"
Lily Dell	....	additional animator
Brian Demoskoff	....	additional inbetween artist
Hilary Denny	....	additional assistant animator
Bernard Derriman	....	animator: Sydney
Anna Dimezza	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Zhiqiang Ding	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Amy Dolphin	....	inbetween artist: Vancouver
Janey Dunn	....	supervising clean-up lead: Sydney
Riccardo Durante	....	key layout designer: Toronto
Riccardo Durante	....	layout director
Amanda Earle	....	inbetween supervisor: Sydney
Virginia Eastman	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Peter Eastment	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Julie Eberley	....	color key stylist
Celine Esnault	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Sonny Esquillon	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Marvin Tabo Estropia	....	animator: Vancouver
Gina Ferreira	....	inbetween artist: "Belle"
Felice Ferrer-Burton	....	background artist: Sydney (as Felice Ferrer)
Stephen Fitch	....	assistant animator: "Beast" (as Steve Fitch)
Lui Francisco	....	additional inbetween artist
Kevin Fraser	....	assistant animator: "Belle"
Richard Froste	....	inbetween artist: Vancouver
Enrique Gallardo	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Aputik Gardiner	....	inbetween artist: "Beast"
Don Gauthier	....	background artist: Toronto
Serena Geddes	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Roy Jorge Geronimo	....	clean-up artist: Vancouver
Joe Giampapa	....	animator: "Beast" and feature characters
Darren Goeree	....	additional inbetween artist
Delia Gosman	....	senior animator: "Beast" (as David Gosman)
Kristina Griesser	....	inbetween artist: Vancouver
Cerissa Grieve	....	inbetween artist: "Belle"
Max Gunner	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Yasser Haidar	....	inbetween artist: feature characters
Lisa K. Harlton	....	assistant animator: Vancouver
David Harrison	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Ian Harrowell	....	unit animation director: Sydney
Ian Hastings	....	background artist: Toronto
Mike Helmer	....	additional assistant animator: "Belle"
Mike Helmer	....	inbetween artist: "Belle"
John Hill	....	layout artist: Vancouver (as John C. Hill)
John Hill	....	layout director: Sydney
Susan Hill	....	lead assistant animator: Vancouver
Magnus Hjerpe	....	animator: feature characters
John Horvath	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Cathy Hsiao-Yun Hsu	....	background artist: Vancouver
Brad Hughes	....	inbetween artist: "Beast"
Jeanette Imer	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Keith Ingham	....	unit animation director: Vancouver
Anna Jukic	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Vicent Jungstedt	....	background artist: Sydney (as Vince Jungstedt)
Danny Kahan	....	animator: "Beast"
Dot Kaminski	....	assistant animator: Vancouver
Weronika Kapelanska	....	additional assistant animator: "Belle"
Weronika Kapelanska	....	inbetween supervisor: "Belle"
Claudia V. Keene	....	inbetween artist: Vancouver
Donald Kim	....	additional assistant animator: "Beast"
Donald Kim	....	inbetween artist: "Beast"
Andrew Knight	....	character designer (as Andy Knight)
Andrew D. Knight	....	assistant animator: "Belle"
Rick Knowles	....	inbetween artist: "Beast"
Tapani Knuutila	....	additional layout artist
Cindy Kong	....	animation checker
Roland L'Ecuyer	....	assistant animator: "Beast"
Joel de la Cruz	....	inbetween artist: feature characters
Ian Lacey	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Daniel Lafrance	....	senior animator: Vancouver
Alan Lam	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Danielle Latta	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Wayne Lee Pack	....	additional assistant animator: "Beast"
Wayne Lee Pack	....	inbetween artist: "Beast"
Mee Kyung Lee	....	assistant animator: "Belle"
Morris Lee	....	animator: Sydney
Kurt Lehner	....	additional assistant animator (as Kurt Lehmer)
Mary Leier	....	assistant animator: Vancouver
Michael Leske	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Elizabeth Lewis	....	inbetween artist: "Belle"
Jerry Liew	....	background artist: Sydney
John Lin	....	layout artist: Toronto
Pieter Lommerse	....	animator: Sydney
Tsyn Low	....	inbetween artist: Vancouver
Brent Lowrie	....	clean-up artist: Vancouver
Brad Lucas	....	assistant animator: feature characters
Kent Madden	....	layout artist: Toronto
John Mahovlich	....	animator: feature characters
Luc Marier	....	lead assistant animator: feature characters
Paul McAdam	....	animator: Sydney
Kevin McDonagh	....	animator: "Beast"
Shelley McIntosh	....	additional inbetween artist
Beverley McNamara	....	head of backgrounds: Sydney (as Beverley MacNamara)
Mamie Miao	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Eileen Middleton	....	animator: Vancouver
Biljana Milicevic	....	additional inbetween artist
Steve Millard	....	inbetween artist: feature characters
Michael Milligan	....	assistant animator: feature characters
Peter Mong	....	background artist: Vancouver
Mac Monks	....	animator: Sydney
Ken Morrissey	....	additional animator
Paul Mota	....	assistant animator
Patti Munro	....	inbetween artist: Vancouver
Sean Newton	....	senior animator: Vancouver
Yuhon Ng	....	animator
Kenneth Nice	....	background artist: Toronto (as Ken Nice)
Alex Nicholas	....	layout director: Sydney
Ken Nicholls	....	head of layout: Vancouver
Christine O'Connor	....	animation checker
Ryan O'Loughlin	....	animator: Sydney
Richard Pace	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Chris Palimaka	....	assistant animator: "Belle"
Margaret Parkes	....	animator: Sydney
Suk-Hee Parkes	....	clean-up artist: Sydney (as Sukhee Parkes)
Adam Parton	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Shawn Pascuttini	....	inbetween artist: "Belle"
Michael Pattison	....	inbetween artist
Kevin Peaty	....	supervising animator: Sydney
Marvin Petilla	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Judith Piersma	....	assistant animator: "Belle" (as Judy Piersma)
Marco Piersma	....	animator: feature characters
Nick Pill	....	layout artist: Sydney
Jens Pindal	....	additional animator
Paul Pistrin	....	inbetween artist: Vancouver (as Paul Pristin)
Aaron Powell	....	additional assistant animator
Clive Powsey	....	key background stylist
Hong Qi	....	additional assistant animator: "Belle"
Hong Qi	....	inbetween artist: "Belle"
Troy Quane	....	animator: "Belle"
Vittoria Quane	....	clean-up artist
Tony Quelch	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Dave Quesnelle	....	senior animator: "Belle"
Kristina Reay	....	animator: Sydney
Joanne Rice	....	additional layout artist
Sean Ridgway	....	assistant animator: Vancouver
Jan Rosicki	....	assistant animator: feature characters
Di Rudder	....	animator: Sydney
Donna Rutz	....	inbetween artist: "Beast"
Erich Salloch	....	additional assistant animator
Gie Santos	....	animator: Sydney (as Georgina Santos)
Cathy Schoch	....	additional inbetween artist
Tom Schyvens	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Shawn Seles	....	senior animator: "Belle"
Marc Sevier	....	senior animator: "Belle"
James Shah	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Nuranee Shaw	....	senior animator: Vancouver
Robert Shedlowich	....	senior animator: feature characters (as Rob Shedlowich)
Jen Sherman	....	additional assistant animator (as Jennifer Sherman)
Damien Simper	....	inbetween artist
Jeffrey Size	....	assistant animator: "Beast"
David Skinner	....	layout artist: Sydney
Adam Smith	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Hyung-Im Son	....	additional assistant animator (as Son Hyung-Im)
Greg Stainton	....	animator: Vancouver
Aaron Stannard	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Evan Steacy	....	animator: feature characters
Sean Steinmuller	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Karen Stephenson	....	assistant animator: Vancouver
Kim Stubbs-Law	....	inbetween artist: "Beast"
Sean Sullivan	....	animator
Myke Sutherland	....	animator: Sydney
Allen Swerling	....	additional inbetween artist
Cindy Tanner	....	inbetween artist: "Belle"
Noreen Taylor	....	inbetween artist: Vancouver
Mark Thornton	....	additional assistant animator
Philipp Tiqui	....	assistant animator: feature characters
Teresa Tonner	....	additional assistant animator
Teresa Tonner	....	additional inbetween artist
Andy Tougas	....	animator: Vancouver
Richard Trefry	....	inbetween artist: Sydney
Mark Tromans	....	assistant animator: Vancouver
Mei Tsao	....	background artist: Toronto
Weylen Tseng	....	layout artist: Sydney
Nigel Tully	....	additional clean-up artist
Rizaldy Valencia	....	animator: Sydney
Nick Vallinakis	....	senior animator: Vancouver
Ellery Van Dooyeweert	....	additional inbetween artist
Pablo Villamayor	....	background artist: Toronto
Ariel Villaverde	....	additional inbetween artist
Christine Wallace	....	color key stylist (as Chris Wallace)
Frank Wessing	....	layout artist: Sydney
Brenton Wilke	....	assistant animator: Vancouver
Phillip Williams	....	animator: feature characters
Ida Wilson	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
Andrew Wolf	....	layout artist: Toronto
Greg Woods	....	additional assistant animator
Kevin Wotton	....	animator: Sydney
Chris Wren	....	additional background artist
Lynn Yamazaki	....	additional assistant animator
Nicole Zarubin	....	clean-up artist: Sydney
S.J. Zheng	....	background artist: Sydney
Alex Gatsis	....	assistant animator (uncredited)
Richard C. Trebus Jr.	....	inbetween artist (uncredited)

Casting Department
Jamie Thomason	....	voice casting

Editorial Department
Scott Bucsis	....	assistant editor
John Royer	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Dominick Certo	....	music editor
Bryan Pezzone	....	musician: piano
Michael Starobin	....	additional orchestrator
Michael Starobin	....	composer: additional music

Other crew
Ellen Gurney	....	story supervisor
Keith Ingham	....	associate director
Sauching Ng	....	production coordinator: Vancouver
Tony Power	....	production coordinator: Vancouver
Dan Smith	....	recruiter
Jamie Thomason	....	dialogue director

Production Companies

• Walt Disney Animation Canada
• Walt Disney Television Animation

Distributors

• Abril Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1998) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2002) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Buena Vista Home Video
• Walt Disney Home Video

Also Known As:

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

Runtime:

72 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:o.Al. | UK:U | USA:G | Iceland:L | Sweden:Btl | South Korea:All | Singapore:G

Company:

Walt Disney Animation Canada

Trivia:

Angela Lansbury and Bernedette Peters would later went on to work on Don Bluth's Anastasia.

Goofs:

Factual errors: During the song "Stories" Belle's book is stitched together and we see her holding it in her hands. Viewing it from the back, the binding is in her right hand; unless it's upside down (which it's not, because we can read the writing on the back cover) the spine of the book should be in her left hand.

Quotes:

Forte:So, Beast gets girl and it's a happy ending for everyone. Enchantment lifted and Forte fades into the background, no longer important, no longer needed. *I think not!*

Movie Connections:

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

Soundtrack:

Stories

Commentary on the Special Edition DVD

The original film is such a masterpiece that it sets the bar so high for this sequel, and you have to keep this in mind when you sit down to watch this. First of all, I think it is such a delight to have the entire cast from the original back and at it. I think the film would really have been hurt if even one of the voice actors had been replaced.

I think what made the original so strong was the music and lyrics of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. Every song was beautiful, witty, and did so much to develop the story and characters. There a but a few songs in The Enchanted Christmas, and the only one that is somewhat memorable is the song "Stories", whose melody becomes a sort of musical motif that recurs throughout the film. The interesting animation sequence during this song is one of the highlights of the film, and it is nothing like anything featured in the original.

If you are a die-hard fan of Beauty and the Beast like myself, you will enjoy seeing the characters in action... but, sadly, it feels different and less magical than the original. The script is a little thin, and the voice acting isn't totally consistent with the original. For example, Robby Benson, who voices Beast, sounds very strange at times and seems to be overacting. But it seems that the Beast in general is very exaggerated throughout the film so this is probably not Benson's fault. Paige O'Hara as Belle as always has a remarkably beautiful voice, whether she is singing or talking. It is so wonderful to hear her put life into the character again.

One thing that I feel was very wrong with this film is that an entire sequence was devoted to showing how the Prince turned away the Enchantress on Christmas and became the Beast. I think that the original film did a marvelous job by telling this part of the story through the stained glass sequence in the beginning, but seeing it portrayed here again sort lacks that fairy-tale wonder to it that the images in stained glass conveyed so well.

Aside from this minor point, I believe if you enjoyed the original like myself, you won't have too hard a time of enjoying this film. Like I mentioned, it would be impossible to match the beauty and magic of the original solely in that the music just cannot match the genius of the Menken/Ashman collaboration. Even though the animation is low-budget, a wonderful soundtrack would have made the sequel great.

My commentary on the Special Edition DVD is that I thought the behind-the-scenes feature was wonderful, and although it is short, you get some really great interviews from the voice actors including Tim Curry who makes his debut as the story's new villain. You don't get to see Paul Reubens though, whose voice and character I found rather annoying. No big loss. One problem I had, however, is with the quality of the image. The Special Edition of the original on DVD has an amazing picture quality, and the colors are so lucid and spectacular, yet in the Enchanted Christmas DVD the colors are somewhat dull and faded. Aside from that, the other special features are just some nonsense that is thrown in just to satisfy the Special Edition title, but the behind-the-scenes feature is good enough for me.

On a final note, I noticed that there are Roman numerals on the side of the DVD cases of both films. Supposedly there will be a third Beauty and the Beast Special Edition coming out soon. Can't wait.