Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

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19971997
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1h 12min

Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, Bernadette Peters, David Ogden Stiers, Haley Joel Osment, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and Paige O'Hara in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Clip: As Long As There's Christmas Extended Scene

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Animation Family Fantasy

Astonished to find the Beast (Robbie Benson) has a deep-seeded hatred for the Christmas season, Belle (Paige O'Hara) endeavors to change his mind on the matter.Astonished to find the Beast (Robbie Benson) has a deep-seeded hatred for the Christmas season, Belle (Paige O'Hara) endeavors to change his mind on the matter.Astonished to find the Beast (Robbie Benson) has a deep-seeded hatred for the Christmas season, Belle (Paige O'Hara) endeavors to change his mind on the matter.

Director
- Andrew Knight
Writers
Stars
- Paige O'Hara(voice)
- Robby Benson(voice)
- Jerry Orbach(voice)

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Awards
- 2 wins & 6 nominations

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Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas: Special Edition

LeVar Burton and Stephanie Cozart Burton at an event for Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Michael Eisner at an event for Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Magic Johnson at an event for Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Nastassja Kinski at an event for Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Paige O'Hara at an event for Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Paula Poundstone at an event for Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Robby Benson and Karla DeVito at an event for Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, Bernadette Peters, David Ogden Stiers, Haley Joel Osment, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and Paige O'Hara in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, Bernadette Peters, David Ogden Stiers, Haley Joel Osment, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and Paige O'Hara in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, Bernadette Peters, David Ogden Stiers, Haley Joel Osment, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and Paige O'Hara in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, Bernadette Peters, David Ogden Stiers, and Paige O'Hara in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, Bernadette Peters, David Ogden Stiers, Haley Joel Osment, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and Paige O'Hara in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

Belleas Belle
(voice)

Beastas Beast
(voice)

Lumiereas Lumiere
(voice)

David Ogden Stiers

Cogsworthas Cogsworth
(voice)

Bernadette Peters

Angeliqueas Angelique
(voice)

Forteas Forte
(voice)

Haley Joel Osment

Chipas Chip
(voice)

Axeas Axe
(voice)
…

Variousas Various
(voice)

Enchantressas Enchantress
(voice)

Fifeas Fife
(voice)

Angela Lansbury

Mrs. Pottsas Mrs. Potts
(voice)

Chorusas Chorus
(singing voice)

Jeff Blumenkrantz

Chorusas Chorus
(singing voice)

Chorusas Chorus
(singing voice)

Chorusas Chorus
(singing voice)

Chorusas Chorus
(singing voice)

Belle (Paige O'Hara) prepares the castle for Christmas against Beast's (Robbie Benson's) wishes, trying to bring him happiness for the season. Forte (Tim Curry), a pipe organ, fears that Belle's plans may eventually bring about an end to the curse - the curse that brought him more importance in the Master's life. Forte uses Fife (Paul Reubens), a flute who desperately wants a solo, to destroy Belle's plans and get rid of her. —R. John Berggren <jberg@nina.pagesz.net>

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Trivia
Dame Angela Lansbury and Bernadette Peters worked on Don Bluth's Anastasia (1997). They recorded their dialogue for the two movies during the same time period as this movie, although for different studios (Disney and Twentieth Century Fox, respectively).

Goofs
Chip makes it sound as if he's never experienced a Christmas before, though we see him in flashback (human form) celebrating Christmas Eve with the castle staff. He was already at least five years old when he was enchanted.

Quotes
[looking out the window]
Fife: Wow! Will you look at that!
Forte: Well, I think I might. I'll just pick myself up and... oh! What's this? Heavens! I'M BOLTED TO THE WALL!

Alternate versions
When the film was re-released on Blu-Ray and DVD in 2011, the following edits for the remastered version brought some small changes from previous releases of the film:
The film is matted to match widescreen formats, while the original release was held in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio.
The colors obviously, are slightly pale.
When Belle sings "It'll stay up until July..." in the original release, the camera is at a Dutch angle, where as in the later release, it is straight.
When Forte introduces himself to Belle ("I am Miestro Forte, court composer...") the sound appears to be slightly out of synchronization and there is a slight pause focusing on the steps before the camera pans up to Forte.
When Forte shouts "I THINK NOT!" there is a keyhole cutaway when the camera zooms out, in the earlier releases, there is none.
The Christmas angel on the tree at the end of the flashback is replaced by one resembling Angelique.
The end credits are golden yellow like the end credits of the first movie instead of chalk white like in the earlier releases.

Connections
Edited into Disney Princess: A Christmas of Enchantment (2005)

Soundtracks
Deck the Halls
Traditional Carol tune, lyrics by Thomas Oliphant (uncredited)
Performed by Angela Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Orbach, and Bernadette Peters
Lyrics by Thomas Oliphant
Composed by John Thomas, John Jones Talhaiarn

Top review

6/10

Not as bad as most say

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is a sequel to Beauty and the Beast obviously, I wasn't too sure if I had wanted to see this because I thought it was just going to be one of those cheesy Christmas special things. But it turns out that this was just a semi-prequel for the story, just going for the stories in between when the time where the beast was still a beast, Belle was still trying to figure out her place in the palace as well as the servants who are still objects in this story. I actually thought it was a nice addition to the story, now I do think that this was unnecessary, because of course we always have to have a villain to these stories and this one somehow in between all the drama of trying to get the beast to turn into a prince, we have an organ that is trying to break the beast's heart away from Belle, yeah, it's silly.

Belle is still a prisoner in the Beast's castle. All the servants are trying to figure out a way for them to fall in love with each other, but with Christmas coming up, they look at this as a great opportunity to bring them together. Belle is excited for Christmas, but the beast isn't happy seeing how it's the one year anniversary of his spell being cast upon him. The organ player though is not in the mood to be mortal again, so he decides to figure a way for the beast to steer clear of falling in love with Belle.

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is a decent sequel, it's a little silly, but I think it wasn't that bad. It was nice little story to add to the fairy tale, it's for the kids for sure, but it's a nice family film as well. There are some good songs in here as well, also we have Tim Currey who is always an awesome villain. Over all, I'd say to give this movie a chance, it has decent animation, a charming story, and the original voices, how rare is that when it comes to a Disney sequel? But I do recommend Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, it's a nice Disney film, even for the holidays as well.

6/10

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Release date
- November 11, 1997 (United States)
Countries of origin
- Canada
- United States
Official site
- Official site
Language
- English
Also known as
- Beauty and the Beast 2
Production companies
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Runtime
- 1h 12min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Digital

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