Belle's Magical World

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Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World

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Directed by Cullen Blaine
Daniel de la Vega
Barbara Dourmashkin
Dale Kase
Bob Kline
Burt Medall
Mitch Rochon
Produced by Bob Kline
David W. King
Written by Alice Brown
Richard Cray
Carter Crocker
Sheree Guitar
Chip Hand
Starring Paige O'Hara
Robby Benson
Music by Harvey Cohen
Distributed by Walt Disney Home Video
Release date(s) February 17, 1998
Running time 70 min. (original)
92 min. (Special Edition)
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Preceded by Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
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Belle's Magical World is a 1998 direct-to-video Disney midquel film and the third installment in the Beauty and the Beast trilogy. It was originally released on February 17, 1998, and features the voices of Paige O'Hara as Belle, Robby Benson as The Beast, Jerry Orbach as Lumiere, David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth, and Anne Rogers, who replaced Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Potts. The film features two songs performed by Belle, Listen With Our Hearts and A Little Thought.

Due to its rather low quality of animation, it is believed that Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World is a compilation of four surviving episodes of Disney's planned but failed Beauty and the Beast TV series, which would have been about Belle's adventures in the Beast's castle.

When first released in 1998, this film was title Belle's Magical World and consisted of three connected segments called The Perfect Word, Fifi's Folly and The Broken Wing. For 2003 Special Edition, released on February 25, the title was changed to Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World, and included another segment called Mrs. Potts's Party, making the final film 22 minutes longer.

Contents

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  • The Perfect Word – The dinner between Belle and the Beast goes wrong, but neither wants to make the first move and apologize. Three enchanted objects, Webster the dictionary, LePlume the pen, and Crane the pile of papers, want to make things all right between the two of them, and write a fake letter of apology from Beast to Belle. Upon reading the letter, Belle apologizes to the Beast, and everything is all right until Beast finds out that the letter was forged. He then banishes the three objects out of the castle, but Belle teaches him to forgive them because their intentions were good.
  • Fifi's Folly – Lumiere wants to prepare something special for the fifth anniversary of his date with Fifi the featherduster, but isn't very good at it, so he enlists Belle's help. Fifi, mistaking the preparations for an actual romance between Belle and Lumiere, becomes jealous, but in the end everything is cleared up.
  • Mrs. Potts's Party – Mrs. Potts is very depressed, so Belle and other enchanted objects decide to cheer her up with a surprise party. Planning a surprise party isn't very easy when you have to make sure that the Beast doesn't wake up and that Mrs. Potts doesn't find out about the party, especially when Cogsworth and Lumiere's rivalry is involved.
  • The Broken Wing – Belle doesn't show up for the lunch Beast ordered her to come to, and instead cares for the wounded bird. Since the Beast loathes birds, Belle has to teach him to accept it, which in the end she manages to do.

[edit] Voice actors and their characters

The naming of "Webster", a new character to the Beauty and the Beast franchise, had to be cleared through Disney's legal department, who obtained consent from publisher Merriam-Webster.

[edit] Continuity

This film reveals that the featherduster's name is Fifi. In Beauty and the Beast she is credited as featherduster, while in the Broadway version of Beauty and the Beast she's known as Babette.

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Disney direct-to-video animated features
Sequels/
prequels/
midquels

The Return of Jafar (1994) • Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996) • Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) • Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) • Belle's Magical World (1998) • Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998) • The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998) • An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000) • The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000) • Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001) • Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002) • 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003) • The Lion King 1½ (2004) • Mulan II (2004) •Tarzan II (2005) • Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005) • Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005) • Kronk's New Groove (2005) • Bambi II (2006) • Brother Bear 2 (2006) • The Fox and the Hound 2 (2006) • Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007) • The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)
Films based
on TV series
TV pilots
Other

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) • Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004) • Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004) • Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004) • Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams (2007) • Tinker Bell (2008) • Tinker Bell: North of Neverland (2009) • Tinker Bell: A Midsummer Storm (2010) • Tinker Bell: A Winter Story (2011)