Poor CGI seems to be a problem with these particular Disney productions of late.

Well, he's getting a solo number ("For Evermore", one of the new songs) so hopefully yes…

Actually, there will be two other singles from this one, drawn from the three new songs Alan Menken and Tim Rice have contributed to the score. Celine Dion's handling "Our Story Goes On", and Josh Groban's covering "For Evermore" (the Beast's big number). They don't even need Kanye!

Also, am I the only one sad that this trailer is getting more Facebook discussion than the announcement that the upcoming "Doctor Who" season will be Peter Capaldi's last? Now there is something magical and moving…

Unfortunately no one saw "Pete's Dragon".

Wow, sorry to hear it was that painful for you. But yeah, the cover of the title tune is pretty bad (and what's with the bombastic arrangement of the Prologue music/ Beast theme?).

Yeah— with every trailer the acting from everybody looks worse and worse. There's no passion or heft, and at heart this story is a classic melodrama. It shouldn't be smaller than life.

Yeah, it was an add-on for the 2002 IMAX reissue.

"Human Again" is not included, nor are any of the numbers created for the wildly popular stage version for that matter. There are three new songs instead, one of which ("Days in the Sun") has pretty much the same point as "Human Again".

No they can't, but inevitably those versions will be compared to Disney's…and usually come up wanting.

My brother correctly said they're pretty much the Disney equivalent of the Michael Bay Transformers.

Yeah, there are a lot of differences between the originals and remakes of "Jungle Book" and "Pete's Dragon". "Jungle Book" is not an all-out musical and is more of an adventure than a comedy, and the ending is very different. "Cinderella" isn't a musical and it's more about the people than the cute animal sidekicks,…

Yeah, it is pretty easy to read her that way upon reflection, though I don't think it ruins the character (for one thing, the townsfolk are a pretty loathsome lot the more I think about them). It's worse in the stage version; there's a whole song, "No Matter What", that boils down to Belle and Maurice agreeing…

The original film's events unfold over an entire winter. It's the end of fall when Maurice goes to the forest and from there the castle, and Belle's first night there comes with the first snow. Spring thaw is beginning by the time of "The Mob Song".

Apparently the remake will address these issues — when the Prince was cursed, why the village didn't know about the castle, etc.

I have to agree — I am really disappointed with what they've done with the Beast. In the animated feature the design may be cartoony, but the character has enormous presence and menace nonetheless, and that's crucial to appreciating how he becomes more human over the course of the story, and later the horror that an…

Ah. Is the quality high otherwise?

Hey, how's "Ms. Marvel" going at the moment? I've kept up with the paperback collections, so I've read through her stretch of the Civil War II storyline. Have she and Bruno reconciled yet?

Apparently Nickelodeon's film division got the rights in the late 1990s and planned to turn it into an animated feature, but creative differences with Jeff Smith got in the way. Since then, Warner Bros. has had the rights for a while, and the most recent news (2016) suggests they want to make a CGI film trilogy from…

Yeah — Twelve didn't get very happy endings in his previous seasons. It's time for him to have a real triumph where he gets everything he wants.