Every Live-Action Disney Movie Remake Ranked Worst To Best

2017's Beauty and the Beast is dripping with competence but severely lacking on the inspiration front.

Sure, it's an impressively mounted production with a strong cast that (mostly) does justice to its killer songs, but it rarely feels like more than just a longer, more bloated iteration of the Best Picture-nominated original.

It at least feels like a ton of effort went into both the aesthetics and performances, though, save perhaps for Emma Watson's disappointingly autotune-heavy vocals.

Shoutout elsewhere, though, to Luke Evans for giving such a persuasive flesh-and-blood performance as the insufferable Gaston.

Beauty and the Beast is a prime example of a remake that dazzles while you're watching it and leaves you feeling not-mad at the effort, even if it fades from memory so, so fast.