Customer Reviews

Beauty and the Beast - Special Edition Soundtrack

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Do not get me wrong, this is my favorite movie of all time! I can watch the movie over and over and over again! BUT!!!!!

The soundtrack is missing so much! The original version of Prologue and MOST OF THE SCORE IN THE MOVIE! We only get 25% of the score! WHERE IS THE REST? Why not put the rest on the Special Edition Soundtrack?

Overall you still get all the songs! :)

We all have heard the songs in "Beauty and the Beast" and not one of them is bad. They are all great. As a matter of fact, they are all flawless. The musical themes also resonate in the score, which is composed by Menken in his best work ever. The special edition contains a few extra tracks, and definitely buy it if you can, but even the cheaper version is great too and contains all of the original album. Even if you are someone who (like me) dislikes sappy Disney songs, you will still probably like Beauty and the Beast, for there are none of them in it. This soundtrack is highly recommended.

My all-time favorite soundtrack. The Beauty and the Beast soundtrack is amazing, with memory-inducing songs that demand you sing-a-long! As you listen, you can picture all of the characters, and you find that you learn all the words (if you didn't know them already) very, very quickly. It's beautiful, even (or perhaps, especially) the instrumentals after all of the songs audiences remember.

Definitely worth the price!

BEST TRACKS: Gaston, Be Our Guest, The Mob Song

This cd is one of my absolute favorites! It really shows off Menken and Ashmen's musical genius. The opening score, "Prolouge", is as i call it, "hauntingly beautiful"(Anyone got sheet music?). "Belle is an extremely catchy song about Belle's relationships with the townspeople, Gaston, her father, ect. Be our guest is fun to sing while dinner is cooking to work up an appitite. Something There is a very happy, cheerful song (Much too short for such a grat song). And of course, the scores are brilliant, especially Prologue and the West Wing and the Transformation. Also, Beauty and the Beast is one of the best love songs ever!

This cd is one of my absolute favorites! It really shows off Menken and Ashmen's musical genius. The opening score, "Prolouge", is as i call it, "hauntingly beautiful"(Anyone got sheet music?). "Belle is an extremely catchy song about Belle's relationships with the townspeople, Gaston, her father, ect. Be our guest is fun to sing while dinner is cooking to work up an appitite. Something There is a very happy, cheerful song (Much too short for such a grat song). And of course, the scores are brilliant, especially Prologue and the West Wing and the Transformation. Also, Beauty and the Beast is one of the best love songs ever!

Beauty & the Beast was the best Disney movie ever made, so it only makes sense that it is also one of the best Disney soundtracks. If you loved the movie, then you simply HAVE to love this soundtrack. A great buy for any fan of the movie!

A must-own for fans of the movie or musical. This recording has a more in-character cast than the play did, and includes a missing song later included in the show. Fun to listen to, if nothing else.

These songs are always in my head,so this disc was quite the
find for me. All the songs are here,and they sound absolutely
great. "Death Of The Beast" is supremely moving,as are all the
songs here. "Human Again" is a great,witty song. My only complaint is that I was hoping they'd do the scene where
Belle reads the legend of King Arthur to the Beast(from the
Broadway musical) but I suppose she did during the course of
the film-we just don't see it(knowing Belle,she wouldn't just

read ONE book with him,right?)

My fiancee took me to see the IMAX version of Beauty and the Beast in Baltimore on Valentine's Day this year. I had seen the movie years ago many times and although I never owned the soundtrack, my roommates in college did, so I knew every word. Seeing the movie on the HUGE screen was really a treat and brought an entire new life to the film I remembered.

I was not sure if my fiancee would like the film, but I knew he would tell me if he didn't. After the movie while we were driving home, he couldn't stop humming all the songs. I gave him the Broadway soundtrack to listen to instead since that was the only one I had. That soundtrack is good, but with all the extra verses and voices that do not recall the movie characters, it was more difficult to enjoy.

I went to a local music store to purchase the CD and I was totally shocked by this special edition which included "Human Again" which was in the IMAX version of the film, and 2 tracks which chronicle the development of "Be our Guest" and "Beauty and the Beast". I surprised him with this soundtrack and it has been in his car for about 1 week already.... he comes home humming some of the songs.

Well, you've got to figure that if someone who was skeptical of the entire Disney movie idea now can't stop singing "Be our Guest", it must be a magical soundtrack. This movie has a great plot and terrific animation, but it would not have been nearly as successful without the amazing music.

The song that was added to this soundtrack and the IMAX movie was "Human Again".... well, truthfully, I could take it or leave it. Not a bad song, not really necessary. Feel free to disagree with that though.

If you love Disney movies and soundtracks.....GET THIS ONE, if you don't have the original already!

Although Disney has always succeeded in creating wonderful musical moments and some of the best soundtracks ever released, the musical score for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is their best to date, and I doubt they'll ever be able to top it. The songs perfectly introduce the characters ("Belle," "Gaston," and reprises) and set the mood for the rest of the show. If Disney had made BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in the 2000's instead of 1991, chances are that it would have been more of an action film then a musical (look at Disney's recent "Dinosaur" and "Atlantis," among others.) If this was the case with BEAUTY, the film would have been truly lost in every sense of the word. The music here carries the picture, and does so expertly. I love the movie and the music with all my heart. Why, then, did I give this CD only three stars? Simply because I expected more from the album itself as a Special Edition release.

This is exactly like the original 1991 release except for the addition of "Human Again" and some demos tacked onto the end. This should have been rearranged so that the album blends score and song in the order that it appears in the film, and then put the demos on. But with this release -- and also the original -- the vocal songs aren't even presented in order. Why "The Mob Song" is presented here BEFORE "Beauty and the Beast" is beyond me.

Another flaw is the "deluexe packaging." Mine has completely fallen apart, and I've been extremely careful with such a great soundtrack. Beware the packaging!

On the plus side for the Special Edition is "Human Again," originally written for but never used in the 1991 animated feature. When Disney decided to transform the movie into a Broadway musical, a number of new songs were written to extend the show's length to the time required for a Broadway performance. In addition to all the newly created songs, this one was dusted off and used as well, and it became an instant hit with audiences and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST fans everywhere. With this in mind, the song was fully animated and interrigated into the film when it was reformatted for its January 2002 IMAX giant screen theater release. The song is sung by all of the film's original cast members, and it is a joy to have it part of the cinematic version of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and its soundtrack.

All in all this is wonderful music -- much better then the Broadway cast album; if you get one of the two, make it this one -- but the album is poorly organized. I'd reccomend this instead of the 1991 version just for "Human Again," but other then that and the demos there really isn't that much difference.