![]() ![]() This does not lend these projects much artistic merit, apart from the craft involved in reinventing familiar designs in new environments. An uncanny-valley remake of Beauty and the Beast is not as impressive as mounting a Broadway show, or feeling like you’re inside the movie, no, but it’s also a lot cheaper, and lasts longer than your average theme-park attraction, and gives you cover versions of some of the best songs to ever grace a movie musical, animated or otherwise. That’s the howl of movie-geek sadness accompanying these seemingly thrice-yearly projects: Why do people watch these?!?! The answer is not so different from the question of why people ride theme-park recreations of Disney movies: Because it’s the thing they already like, elaborately made “real” in a way that (while not actually real) is different enough to provide distraction. After all, that’s why these things are made: Not as an expression of artistic sensibility or even as an attempt to pay tribute to the magic of the originals, but because paying customers go to see them – somewhat inexplicably, if you ask the movie critics who have had to sit through more than a few bizarre recreations of what are often childhood favorites. ![]() ![]() At first, it seems like the only reasonable way to rank out the history of Disney not-quite-live-action cover-band remakes of their animated classics would be by box office gross. ![]()
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