YMMV / Beauty and the Beast (Golden 1999)

• Blooper: Despite having very distinct designs and sounding completely different, the three ghosts are often mistakenly animated with each other's voices. This is especially egregious with their song, where the red ghost is animated with the blue ghost's voice and vice versa for the entire duration of it.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: One of Beauty's sisters proclaim "he has her under some spell!" when she witnesses Beauty showing the Beast affection. Years later, Gaston would make a similar claim in the live-action remake of the Disney version.
• Narm:
  • Swan Lake and Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy being used as primary tunes often cause severe Soundtrack Dissonance, making scenes with them harder to take seriously.
  • This dialogue, due to making Beast seem like an easily offended Jerkass.
    Beauty: You play beautifully!
    Beast: I do nothing beautifully. Have you forgotten? I'm a beast.
  • The scene of Beast driving Beauty away, leading to her falling down the stairs. Not only does Beast get enraged at a relatively petty thing (Beauty saying she found it strange that his castle had many beautiful things), he also yells "YOU WILL GO!", which is more akin to a dismissal, at her.
• Never Live It Down: The Beast refusing to help a group of starving townsfolk and letting them walk away empty-handed, killing a majority of them including the three comic-relief ghosts, is considered too horrible by most of the people who've watched the film, no matter the attempts the film makes to make him sympathetic.
• Padding: A lot of the musical numbers eat up most of the movie's time, leaving almost no room for chemistry between Beauty and the Beast, among other things.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Like a number of Golden Films' movies, this one focuses more on the ghosts than Beauty or the Beast. Sure, the ghosts provide a backstory on the Beast and they know quite a bit of him more than the audience, but that isn't used to build up his character at all.
• Strangled by the Red String: The romance in this film, while already pretty shady, is portrayed horribly. The Beast just yells at Beauty and barely shows any signs of changing his monstrous behavior, especially considering that he selfishly let a whole village die when they came to him for help.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: "Beauty's Dream" has a similar melody to "A Whole New World" from Disney's 1992 film, Aladdin.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • This version of the Beast is probably one of the cruelest and least sympathetic Beasts in all of the versions of this fairy tale. His Disproportionate Retribution towards those who pick his roses is bad enough, but during Beauty's stay with him, he mostly spends his time getting easily offended by the most minor things, as well as yelling at and scaring the poor girl who probably misses her family. His agreement to let Beauty see her sick father was supposed to be shown in a positive light, but it came right after screaming at her because she came to the mirror room without his permission, making it feel forced. To top it all off, according to The Reveal, he refused to help a group of starving townsfolk, leading to a majority of them, including the three comic-relief ghosts, dying. It gets to a point where he of all people was legitimately surprised when Beauty confesses her love for him.
  • The ghosts aren't much better either. After the merchant has been charged with death for stealing the Beast's roses, the ghosts give the Beast the idea to make Beauty take his place, specifically stating that she can cook for him. Them onlooking Beast confronting the merchant with smiling faces makes it ten times creepier.

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