An average movie

Next year, Disney will come up with another live-action version of this classic tale but the French have already released their own version in the mean time.Well, even though it was visually pretty neat, I was actually rather bored by the damned thing. I don’t know, maybe it was because it was just too familiar with this old tale or it was maybe the fact that I didn’t care much for the new ideas they added to the mix. Furthermore, while Vincent Cassel was a perfect choice to play the Beast, I'm afraid the lovely Léa Seydoux  was rather miscast to play the title character. I  mean, Seydoux is really talented, no doubt about it but, so far, I have seen her only play some cold ice queen girls and I would definitely not choose her to play a cute and innocent princess in a fairy tale like this one. It's such a pity that, after 8 long years, Christophe Gans would deliver such an underwhelming feature. Indeed, even though Gans must have been one of the most promising French directors of his generation, he doesn't seem to be able to finish most of his projects and, therefore, he apparenly managed  to get some financing only for such a boring fairy tale. To conclude, it was really nice to look at, I'll give you that, but I think that my rating might be actually generous for this movie. 

6/10