Parent reviews for Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

"A bit dark" is a huge understatement. Much of the movie was the very creepy, scary and evil organ talking with the nasty and ill-tempered Beast. Even the parts with Belle are filled with either the Beast yelling at her or near death experiences. On top of all of this, they organ says things along the lines of "being in love is hell," "they can't fall in love if they're dead" (as he tries to kill them) and tries to persuade the Beast to turn himself into a Beast forever in a scene that is very reminiscent bullying people into suicide. Terrible movie for kids under 8, and not really good even if they are older.

This is the most misreable Christmas movie I have seen for children. The Beast is more abusive then ever, Belle almost dies over getting a Christmas tree then punished for her idea by getting locked in a dungeon. Constantly stresses 'its no use hoping for Christmas/Christmas to be good' and the organ is nightmare fuel, kids could be tramatized by it. He sings about how love is bad, says "it's hell" and a weird line about not being able to love if they are dead? Dark depressing, and like watching an abuse documentary. Please skip unless you want to ruin Christmas. Promotes putting up with abuse too much...

Really it creeped me out. I don't like that freaky piano. He scares me. Gaston wasn't half as scary and was also twice as charming (seriously!) Also, he says the word "hell" during a song. This midquel also doesn't fit very well into the original's storyline. Seeing Belle go to the Black Forest to get a Christmas tree and get trapped on an ice floe, then rescued by Beast only to have him imprison her again for defying him was not necessary and scary. It also was too much like a similar scence in the original (which means it feels like a rehash). Like Cars 2 this is a 3.5/10 for me. I'm not surprised it has a rare 0% at Rotten Tomatoes. It has no real reason to exist.

This movie is foul. There are innumerable examples of emotional and verbal abuse from the Beast towards Belle. Belle's reaction is forgiveness which is just not good enough. The organ will give your children nightmares. The villain in the story; the organ; is manipulative and causes the Beast to have depression and to be violent. The producer and the writer need therapy. This is basically the same movie, minus the removal of a beautiful redemption love story, with crappier animation and a huge dose of violence and domestic abuse.

The story and production are low quality and there are questionable messages in the movie, especially for young girls (i.e. staying in a bad relationship with a grumpy jerk). The anthropomorphized organ is odd and vilifies classical music. It probably won't scar anyone for life or even make much of a lasting impression but it is a really odd movie and I'd avoid it if I had a second chance.

This movie was not at all what we bargained for. My 3 year old started crying in the middle of it and she loves Beauty and the Beast (even though it has some scary parts). We ended up fast forwarding a lot. There is a VERY scary organ who makes the movie seem more like a Halloween flick than a Christmas one.

If I had previewed this film, I would not have showed it to my 6 and 3 year old. The 3 year old alternated between scared and bored, and the six year old had a look of concern on her face through most of the movie. The movie is dark and not what one thinks of when looking for a Christmas movie for kids. And most the lyrics for "Don't Fall In Love," where a bit much for a movie for kids. I don't get it the rationale.

Very negative. NOT for kids! Our two grandkids (3 and 5) had nightmares three days after watching this movie with us. I was so disturbed, I finally took the small one out and read her a much nicer story.