Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

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Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Directed by	Andy Knight
Written by	Flip Kobler Cindy Marcus Bill Motz Bob Roth
Starring	Paige O'Hara Robby Benson Jerry Orbach David Ogden Stiers Bernadette Peters Tim Curry
Distributed by	Walt Disney Home Video
Release date(s)	November 11, 1997
Running time	72 min.
Language	English
Budget	N/A
Preceded by	Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Followed by	Belle's Magical World (1998)
IMDb profile

Beauty and The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is a 1997 film made by The Walt Disney Company. It is a midquel that takes place within the timeline of the original Beauty and the Beast (after the fight with the wolves, but before the fight against Gaston). But also, this movie is a sequel to the original movie, because it shows enchanted objects in their human form reminiscing last year's Christmas festivities, during which the majority of this movie's plot takes place. In this movie the Beast forbids Christmas (because his transformation from the Prince occurred on Christmas) until Belle, Cogsworth, Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, and Chip convince him that Christmas is a good holiday. The film also shows the time that the enchantress put the spell on the castle in the first film.

Contents 1 Reception 2 Release History 3 Soundtrack 4 Voice actors and their characters 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Reception

While the film broke records with its phenomenal commercial success, surpassing the $180 million mark, critical reception was extremely negative. It currently holds a rare 0% critics approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but it's based on only five reviews. However, it retains a rather high 74% user approval rating on the site.^[1]

[edit] Release History

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas first debuted on VHS on November 11, 1997, with a barebones DVD release on October 14, 1998. Both editions were quickly taken out of print and remained unavailable until Disney released a "Special Edition" DVD and VHS on November 12, 2002, little more than a month after the original film's Special Edition DVD release. The new DVD featured a remake music video of the song "As Long As There's Christmas" by Play, "Click The Mouse" behind-the-scenes featurette, Forte's Challenge Game, Enchanted Environment, Disney Song Selection, and a sing-along subtitle track. This DVD and its VHS counterpart was taken out of print at the same time as the original movie's DVD and VHS releases and has not been re-released as of 2007.

[edit] Soundtrack

Main article: Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (soundtrack)

[edit] Voice actors and their characters

• Paige O'Hara - Belle
• Robby Benson - The Beast
• Jerry Orbach - Lumiere (candlestick/human)
• David Ogden Stiers - Cogsworth (clock/human)
• Bernadette Peters - Angelique (the Christmas angel)
• Tim Curry - Forte (the pipe organ)
• Haley Joel Osment - Chip (teacup/human) (speaking)
• Frank Welker - Phillippe the Horse, Sultan
• Jeff Bennett - Axe, Poke
• Kath Soucie - The Woman of The Winter Rose
• Paul Reubens - Fife (the piccolo)
• Angela Lansbury - Mrs. Potts (teapot/human)
• Andrew Keenan-Bolger - Chip (teacup/human) (singing)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas at the Internet Movie Database
• Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas at Rotten Tomatoes

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