Beauty & The Beast Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs
1. Bad Editing Ruins Some Awesome Imagery
The film's editing is totally all over the place. Director Bill Condon's long-time editor Virginia Katz sadly has an itchy trigger finger when it comes to cutting away from gorgeous, potentially iconic imagery far too quickly.
The result is a film that, despite its length, feels oddly rushed at times, and at others simply looks rather slapdash, especially when concurrent shots in the same sequence are blatantly spliced together from separate takes, with facial positions totally different from one another.
It's really filmmaking 101 to get blocking and continuity correct, but more jarring is how eagerly Katz refuses to hold on some otherwise fantastic shots.
But now that's all out of the way, here's everything that works in Beauty and the Beast...