download the new for apple Beauty and the Beast

In the original 1991 version, which I saw in the theater while I was in college, I was swept off my feet by the ballroom dance scene: the appearance of a camera rotating around the dancing Belle and Beast, the incredible detail in the ornately decorated ballroom walls, and the reflections of the couple on a seemingly well-polished floor.

Dancing QueenĮven though I was excited to see the film, there is one part of it about which I was feeling skeptical: the ballroom dance scene. One of the things I was excited about with this particular review was getting to use our new house’s built-in surround speakers and a Polk subwoofer that arrived the same day as the Blu-ray/digital download code! Yeah, perhaps Beauty and the Beast isn’t many people’s top choice of first-movie to play in a brand-new home theater, but it was our first choice. We were able to open up our Apple TV and have the movie, as well as all the extras and bonus features, waiting for us. With the download, the film was brought into our iTunes account. Our family chose to take advantage of the Disney Movies Anywhere digital download code for this review. Yes, the storyline has been, ahem, modified a tad, but the sets, costumes, lighting, and live-action personifications of the household items in the Beast’s castle are very well-done. It’s a jewel of a film-a culmination of three years of screenplay adaptation, choreography, songwriting, and CGI. If you haven’t seen the live-action Beauty and the Beast yet, I encourage that you do. I know the GeekMoms and GeekDads were super excited about the release back in March, and we had plenty of posts about it, including our “8 Things” post from March 17th.

The weekend the film was released in theaters was in the middle of our family’s move from one house to another, and before I knew it, other movies had come out that caught our family’s attention more. I’m probably one of the two people on earth who didn’t get to see this film in the theater this past spring, but it wasn’t for lack of trying.

This weekend my family received Disney’s live-action version of Beauty and the Beast to review the Blu-ray/DVD combo pack included a digital code that I used for an iTunes download.

Download the new for apple Beauty and the Beast