10 Best Animated Film Musical Numbers

3. Be Our Guest €“ Beauty and the Beast (Disney) http://youtu.be/afzmwAKUppU Disney€™s animated musicals are famous for their grandeur, for their epic scale, and Be Our Guest is arguably a staple of this hallmark.Complete with, at the time, cutting edge animation, some truly wonderful characters and such a sense of over-the-top pageantry that it€™s impossible not to be swept up in its wake. There€™s something infinitely tragic about a calling without an answer; a performer without an audience, a teacher without students and indeed a servant with no one to serve. Be Our Guest, when you really look at it, is an enamoured plea to Belle from a group who€™ve essentially been prematurely retired by their selfish master €“ €œplease be our guest, we need this€. The way Disney compose their musical numbers really is incredible albeit subtle. Here we have a joyous fanfare, a number so vibrant and full of life that you€™d be forgiven for missing the notes of desperation, of urgency and ultimately of the collective feeling that Belle is very much their last chance saloon.

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