Post by Owen Y on Apr 6, 2018 18:24:24 GMT 12
Entertaining I'd say, with enough in this movie to take home & feel pleased about.
Unfortunately I'd read the Beauty & the Beast plot-line beforehand & so started out a bit apprehensive of possible excessive schmaltz.
However, I was keen to savour the Del Toro visuals & they are not disappointing - the period Ektachrome hues, the scene detailing, costuming...
There's smatterings of humour, some of it black. And it's not too overdosed with the heart-warming stuff.
Sally Hawkins of course, is splendid in the mute leading role (I recall her as Mrs Reed in the 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre recently shown on TV) & Michael Shannon equally so as a sweaty, cold-assed antagonist-villain. One should mention also, Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures).
As for Del Toro, I think I might have to go back to his Pan's Labrynth, to re-appreciate his originality, fantasy, imagination.
Unfortunately I'd read the Beauty & the Beast plot-line beforehand & so started out a bit apprehensive of possible excessive schmaltz.
However, I was keen to savour the Del Toro visuals & they are not disappointing - the period Ektachrome hues, the scene detailing, costuming...
There's smatterings of humour, some of it black. And it's not too overdosed with the heart-warming stuff.
Sally Hawkins of course, is splendid in the mute leading role (I recall her as Mrs Reed in the 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre recently shown on TV) & Michael Shannon equally so as a sweaty, cold-assed antagonist-villain. One should mention also, Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures).
As for Del Toro, I think I might have to go back to his Pan's Labrynth, to re-appreciate his originality, fantasy, imagination.
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