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10 Minute Deconstruction: The opening scene is that of a castle, with an voiceover serving as our narrative, which explains the back-story for the rest of the movie. It sets the tone, a dark, mysterious aura, before introducing Belle, the protagonist. Scarcely 3 minutes in, we’re given our first musical number. I do not usually like characters spontaneously bursting into song for no reason, but the music is so damn catchy I really have to make an exception here. Belle is an adventurous, slightly airheaded girl, but extremely likeable. During the course of the musical number, our antagonists are introduced, a steroid-driven lumberjack-wannabe named Gaston, and his dimwitted assistant. Gaston seems to be part squirrel, as he spends most of his time on rooftops, but I digress. He’s egotistical. Gaston throws himself at Belle in a rather sexist way, and, unsurprisingly, is shot down. Belle’s father, an eccentric inventor, has trouble getting his ideas to work, as tends to happen.

My Review: 9/10

There are very few bad things I can say about a classic. Especially one that is very close to the hearts of so many people. And really, it’s an excellent movie, both for kids and adults, although I do recall being slightly traumatized as a kid by some of the darker scenes. The story itself progresses and develops as the movie continues, starting off light and fairly whimsical while gradually moving into darker and darker realms. The backstory is interesting and the characters all different, and while perhaps not exactly relatable due to the context of the story, they’re memorable. One of the few things that I feel takes a little bit of the magic out of the movie is the shameful sequels, prequels, and midquels that came out of it.  I won’t even go into detail on those. But in my opinion, they are just spineless additions to the franchise, trying to cash in on the success of the original. But they just didn’t have the same magic. But it’s not like Disney makes a habit of…. *spots Cinderella III* DAMN IT!

The Transformation: [Spoilers ahead. But if you haven’t seen this movie at least once by now, shame on you.] Due to the Master’s greedy nature, the transformation was not limited to him alone, but spread to the entire staff of the castle. Dozens of people transformed against their will, threatened with the possibility of being stuck forever. Despite this, they are cautiously optimistic, which I personally found to be one of the few flaws of the movie. Hell, if I was transformed against my will into something I didn’t want, I’d probably bitch about it. Although, the main story takes place years after the curse is placed on the castle, so it could be assumed that they are used to it by now, and have moved from bitching about it to trying to do something about it. Presumably, should they wind up being stuck in that way forever, I would expect there would be quite a mutiny. Now, while the transformations themselves are not sequenced and merely glanced over, my dear friend Kashi has illuminated me to something interesting. Apparently, during the course of the stage musical, the transformations are indeed progressive. So, should you get the opportunity to see the stage production, I would recommend going to see it, if transformations are your thing. Oh! And before I forget, rumor has it that Beauty and the Beast may be re-released theatrically along with the Lion King. So keep an eye out for that.

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Housebroken: The satirical review of 2006′s The Shaggy Dog. The new video wouldn’t necessarily be a dog TF movie, but some other bad TF film.

Zero Transformation: This was a one-off review of the Animorphs video games, done in the style of Yahtzee’s Zero Punctuation. A new video would be another TF video game, as there are several out there.

Talking Film: Oy and TZ haven’t done one in a long time, since they’ve been busy with a lot of other projects. But there are a few TF-centric movies that came out recently.

Top 10: Last time, Oy and TZ counted down the top 10 TF-inducing devices. What would they count down this time?

Deliberate one-offs like the Anti-bimbo TF PSA, AnimaTFd, and the Donkey TF video (Warning, Mature!) are not eligible for various reasons: mostly due to their unusual manner of production.

Other series like Crimes Against TF and Analogues have episodes still in the planning stages and will be out soon.

Happy voting!

With the first and second-place winners separated by only 2 votes, LessThanHuman decided to appoint them both top winners.

Drop on by the journal page to see the other winners and scan back to see all other entries.

deviantART: lessthanhuman’s Journal: Contest ONE: Sorsha to Pig – Winners.

TF CONTEST #2 — Team_TF’s Journal — Fur Affinity [dot] net.