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Starting in Sydney September 2nd 2010 Beauty and the Beast 3D for Limited Release. -/


In Sydney it will be showing at Hoyts.

You can buy on line at hoyts.com.au

Thanks Barry - I'll be going

Managed to go an see a preview screening of this today at Hoyts at the EQ in Sydney. Wrote up a little report:

http://dvdbits.wordpress.com/2010/08/29 ... -beast-3d/

Will definitely be going to see this again!

Thanks Loomis - I love that review. I can't wait to go see it this weekend in Sydney.

By the way - any more thoughts on you joining us in Hong Kong in April?

See you around.

Sounds good!

Richard do you have a current link to the menus in HKDL? The link on your website isn't working

Hi everyone - Della and I went to Fox Studios last night to watch Beauty and the Beast 3D...

...and we loved it!

As Richard said, it really does work in 3D - from that very first scene where the camera pushes in through the forest towards the castle, we were both hooked.

The 3D version is based on the original release of the film - not the extended version that was featured in the Imax presentation a few years ago (with the added "Human Again" number). I prefer this original presentation and believe the Directors of the movie were correct in the first place by removing that scene - it slowed the movie down too much - so I was glad to see it not in this new version.

You all know the story, so it's not worth repeating here - and you'll find that the 3D is fairly subtle, just adding an element of depth without it taking over from the storytelling.

What I really liked about seeing Beauty and the Beast on the big screen again was how good this film really is! I'm watching it and thinking that this really was a golden age for Disney - the movie may be 19 years old (!!!) but it far outshines anything that the company has done in a long long time (Pixar excepted of course). One wonders if that trio of films (BatB, Aladdin, The Lion King) will ever be matched from a story or art of animation perspective. These films were made in an era before the Disney Consumer Products division and other unrelated areas had a say in the actual creative process - and for that we should be grateful that these films exist in the form we see today.

One final note - there were heaps of people at the session we went to and it was a big cinema. I was surprised as I was telling Della that I thought we'd be the only ones there! People are still interested in seeing traditionally animated films if the story is great - and that is exactly what Beauty and the Beast is. A great film.

There really are a lot of Disney fans out there!