Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Short description
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is a 1997 animated holiday film set within the world of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Belle is determined to bring Christmas cheer to the Beast's gloomy castle, even though the Beast despises the season and wants nothing to do with it. With help from the enchanted servants, she sets out to arrange a celebration, but a scheming pipe organ named Forte and his companion Fife work to sabotage the festivities and keep Belle and the Beast apart. The story unfolds as a tale told after the events of the original film, once the castle's inhabitants have returned to human form.
The film is directed by Andrew Knight from a screenplay by Flip Kobler, Cindy Marcus and Bill Motz, and was produced by Disney Television Animation. Paige O'Hara and Robby Benson reprise their voice roles as Belle and the Beast, joined by Jerry Orbach as Lumiere, David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth, Bernadette Peters as the Christmas angel Angelique and Tim Curry as Forte.
At 72 minutes, it is a direct-to-video production rather than a theatrical feature. On IMDb it holds a rating of 5.9 from around 14,000 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 6.2 from a smaller pool of about 1,100 votes. A film critics' rating of 4.1 from 10 reviews places it below both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the early stages of development, the cartoon was supposed to be a direct continuation: the main villain was to be Avenant, Gaston's younger brother, who died in the finale of the first part. Avenant planned to kill Belle and Prince Adam. However, the authors considered the plot too cruel and complex for a children's cartoon, and the villain eventually became a giant organ named Forte, who did not want the Beast to become human again.
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