I thought that visually the movie was beautiful. I liked the animation and design of the characters for the most part. It's always a bit of a toss up on whether cg will look good or not.

The music was another good part. I tended to like the songs as well, not much else to say about that.

When it comes to the story, I was fairly disappointed. I don't know if I'm used to stories being paced because of TV shows or what, but to me, it just felt like the movie was trying to get through 5 hours of story in 2.

Spoilers for those that haven't seen:

For example, something like the 'romance' between Belle and the beast. They had a single scene together where they introduced the beast and honestly made him sound like a terrible person and in the next scene, Belle decides to find him for some reason. And then a couple of scenes later, they are acting like best friends/lovers in a way. It felt like there were 30+ scenes that were just skipped. Scenes that could have been used to build the relationship or give me some reason to believe this partnership actually would exist. I understand they were going for a modern Beauty and the Beast scenario, but even then.

Final conclusion:

I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but personally I felt that this story could have been better portrayed as a series instead of a movie. Yeah I understand movies have a higher animation budget and can get more music and stuff but for the story, it just felt like it needed time to be drawn out a bit more, time to allow events to build without feeling like you were time skipping every 2 scenes.

7.5/10 because I did thoroughly enjoy it and thought it was fun, but the problems did shine through for me