and he's still not any closer to unraveling the true depths of the galaxyhole. also, linkara still hasn't finished the clone saga or gotten back on schedule.
Regardless having him narrate is still great. I remember this cartoon our teacher played it for us. The first time I heard his voice as a narrator. His voice is still great to hear later I realized he was Darth Vader. Having him as a narrator would always be great.
9 Beauty and the beasts, 5 Hunchback of Notre-dames, 3 Anastasias, and strangely only 1 of each for Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White. I am kind of surprised the others don't get as much.
@@ImaNerdANDaGeek As someone who appreciates the live-action whilst acknowledging its flaws, I'm happy to see someone say this. You can't say it's the worst thing ever when *many* worse versions of the fairytale have come out before it. At least BATB '17 had some effort put into it.
I mean, not *all* of them are nightmares. The Russian animated version from 1952 & its vastly superior 1998 English dub (superior in its portrayals of the Beast & the romance) are actually quite beautiful. 🥰
_"I find your art style... disturbing."_ Every time someone says a cartoon cannot be a bad actor, I like to point them to one of these Beauty and the Beast movies, where seemingly the only character able to have an expression is Old Man.
I was *literally* just watching the Ruby-Spears one earlier today hoping our BATB king would soon return and here we are! At long last, we get the James Earl Jones-narrated version featuring the weirdly colorful Beast & middle-aged looking Beauty!
Phelous, I know you make a lot of sarcastic asides about how the viewers don't care about the little details (from figurine variants to company history) that you talk about before getting into the nitty gritty, but I just want to say that your passion for these completely silly bootleg stories -- perhaps more passion than the people working on them had themselves -- makes this sort of thing fascinating. It must take a lot of time, digging up these facts to share with us, and I just wanted to say that I appreciate it. Maybe I can't remember my dad's birth year, but now I can tell people with confidence that Little Golden Book had a He-Man video, and it's all thanks to you!
I actually think the cut-out face thing is a unique and memorable way to show a dream sequence, as it takes advantage of animation as a medium. It'd look SUPER unsettling in live action, but animators have a ton of leeway when it comes to symbolism and suspension of disbelief. Too bad the rest of the movie doesn't have the same creativity, though.
I can attest to that comparison. The live-action Cannon Movie Tales adaptation from 1986, a version of which I *heavily* grew up on, had also featured dream sequences between Beauty (Rebecca de Mornay) & the Prince (John Savage), but showed off the transition with these cool, ripple effect-looking fade-ins to show us that we were leaving the world of the castle and entering that of Beauty's mind. Now I'm imagining them trying to do what Golden Book did and yikes, it would've looked *horrendous.* 😅
“This is the Phelous review of "Golden Book Beauty & The Beast." You can read along with me in your book. You will know it is time to turn the page when you hear Old Man yell like this… LET’S BEGIN NOW.”
There's something strangely nostalgic about the Golden Book Video features, very much in spite of their limited animation. Their comedic take on "The Emperor's New Clothes" always stood out to me.
By now, how would people rate the animated BatB features that Phelous has reviewed? In order from what I consider the worst to the best: 1.Golden Films Beauty and the Beast (looks like a cheap ad and features the three braindead ghosts) 2.Bevanfield Beauty and the Beast (dreary, depressing and wastes Christopher Lee) 3.DEFA Beauty and the Beast (the ugly elephant-man beast gave me nightmares as a child) 4.Burbank Beauty and the Beast (just forgettable) 5.Golden Book Beauty and the Beast (they should have stuck to books) 6.Ruby-Spears Beauty and the Beast (I grew up with R-S cartoons, so they get a nostalgia bonus) 7.Grimm Meisaku Gekijou Beauty and the Beast (suffers from being compressed to hell) 8.Britannica Beauty and the Beast (anything introduced by Pat Morita can't be that bad) 9.Good Times Beauty and the Beast (brought us Old "Weeeeeheeeehee" Man, 'nuff said)
I’d put the DEFA one a bit higher. They get some points because stop motion takes effort. Plus it’s memorable as “the stop motion one were the beast is an elephant” while I can’t remember some of the other ones.
@@starwarsnerd100 I'd appreciate the puppeteering effort, but as I said, the hideous elephant man gave my child self the creeps to the point I couldn't sleep at night for fear that that monster would step out of the closet or from under my bed if I wasn't looking.
Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics’ Beauty And The Beast is the best one, in a non-ironic way. Besides, it’s actually an adaptation of the Grimm’s fairy tale “The Story Of The Summer And Winter Garden”, which is why it feels compressed.
Golden Films are usually the worst because they often spend more than half the runtime on ancillary tagalong characters that add nothing to the plot and serve as nothing more than a way to distract young children. Whatever screentime left over is devoted to a barebones adaptation that either bastardizes the original or removes any characterization to make room for more annoying sidekicks.
@@xFlareLeon Yeah, and they feel so cheap! They hit exactly that threshold where something looks cheap enough to be off-putting, but not so cheap as to be strangely endearing, like Dingo Pictures.
It's sad when you realize Michael York did a better job acting in The Land Before Time VII than he did in either Puss n Boots or Beauty and the Beast (Golden Books Version)... also Michael York really knows how to pick animated film roles.
Funny how Michael York voiced a Beast in BATB and then later played the Raoul character in a Phantom of the Opera adaptation (the 1983 TV film). 😆 And considering I saw him do an animated flick with Tim Curry at one point...guess we had a brief little Beast team-up in that one. 😊
I've always been interested in a version of this story that takes place in modern times. That would imply the Beast was stuck in that castle for centuries before Beauty showed up, which would make the true love message more meaningful.
''Everything the light touches is our failure.'' Said Dingo, Goodtimes, Q5, and pretty much every other loser company Phelous has ever reviewed something from.
It has to be said, it's a real testament to your comedic writing/performing/editing that even after umpteen variations of a single story, I laughed harder watching this one than almost any other video of yours. Hope you continue to hone your craft, and I'll still be watching you in one form or another in 20 years.
Aw, man, did you have use this quote here? Because even Tim Curry couldn't escape Beauty & the Beast! 😆He played Russia's iteration of the Beast in a 1998 English dub and despite his voice *really* not fitting the character design, I consider his characterization & performance to be one of the best! 🥰
11:25 That was actually a clever joke you put in considering this movie is SO boring, I wouldn't be surprised if the narrator really was sleeping on the job.
One of these days, I'd like to see Phelous do a tier list for characters called or referred to being beautiful or handsome. I know beauty is subjective but I'm sure we can all admit when actual effort is put into it compared to others.
I just watched Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête, and a lot of the scene compositions in this Beauty and the Beast look similar to that movie. I wonder if they used that film as a reference or directly traced the frames. It's really bizarre how close they look. Look at the scenes inside of Beauty's house, the dining room in the castle, and the long hallway the Beast stands in; they're like direct copies from La Belle et la Béte. Might also explain the weird scene composition sometimes, trying to translate a live action scene to animation without much use of perspective or shading. Edit: After seeing their costumes later in this video, I'm almost certain they used Cocteau's film to make this one.
Funny, I too was watching that one yesterday. Yep, the costumes are *definitely* Cocteau-inspired, capturing that same Johannes Vermeer aesthetic with the family's peasant clothes, and for Beauty's time at the castle, they use looks that echo Josette Day's 18th-century royal attire. As well as making both Beasts look like they have giant shoulders. 😆😉
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who caught that. I was looking at Beautty’s “peasant” costume and I joked out loud, “Wait. Isn’t that sort of like Josette Day’s costume? Even the hair pulled through the head wrap?” I even noticed this animated abomination wearing a string of pearls in her hair. So you’re right. It’s bizarre, and in better hands I might have considered it a lovely homage to one of my all-time favorite movies. But we get THIS! 🤦🏽♀️😂
Kind of surprised they didn't use James to voice the Beast. Sure, he makes a terrific narrator, but something about Michael York's voice (which is still very distinctive) just doesn't seem to fit that design.
I feel like he'd be good for a Beast character, but one with a a more elegant design. Jones might fit it as well, but again it would help if the design was more imposing.
You know... I'm usually not against celebrity voice-actors (especially if they're actual actors), but hearing James Earl Jones slumming it is still depressing af. Also, why don't they ever let them voice the beast?
The weirdest thing Golden Books Home Video probably ever released was the first two episodes of Toxic Crusaders. You know, the environmental kid's show based on the hard R rated indie film where a kid gets his head crushed by a truck? Also, why the hell does the Beast speak with the same vocal infliction as Bane? I can't be the only one that noticed that.
Oh man, the editing of the character voice lines made for some great jokes in this one. Almost like a mid-2010s youtube poop after they really figured out sentence mixing well, while still sticking to your usual comedy style. It was incredibly entertaining. With the heavy dream factor in this review, I was expecting a return of THE NIGHTMARE BECOMES REALITY gag, but I guess it's been lying dormant for too long now. Oh well.
Here's my obligatory reminder/request/wish that Phelous unveils the hidden wonder that is Tim Curry's Beast in Beauty & the Beast: The Tale of the Crimson Flower (1998) to his viewers someday. 🤞🌹 Not that I'm not still planning on it myself, but I *very* *much* want to see *his* take on the film. 😉🥰
@@TommyDeonauthsArchives Yep, saw that one last week. Animation was gorgeous, songs were lovely, plot was unique for the fairytale, & it even contained some obligatory references to the Disney version. 🥰
The only notable thing from this Beauty and the Beast to me, besides the Beast's ridiculous design, it's that it used the same public domain music as Chespirito's shows. Not gonna lie, I kinda liked that.
I'm amazed that they somehow got James Earl Jones to narrate this story. I never watched any of the Golden Books videos, but some of the covers looked oddly nostalgic to me.
@@richardpulido4624 Old Man could’ve improved it though even if it caused tonal whiplash. Need more Old Man for any Beauty and the Beast adaptation. [Old Man:HEEEEEEEEEEEE.] [Hosoda:What the fu**?]
@@BigEOT3 I didn't think there was any problem with it at all. Kylie McNeill in the English version of the movie is an amazing singer and I especially loved how she preformed U and Gales of Song.
@@richardpulido4624 I was kidding. I love Belle. I think the only post-Toei Hosoda film I’m not a fan of is Boy and the Beast. It’s not bad, I just don’t care for it.
16:05 Actually, this scene was redone last-minute, and the actor playing Father wasn't available to come back for the shoot, so they just slapped on his lines from the original. That's why the sound quality is so different.
Oh yeah, great point! I saw that one last week and didn't even make the connection! But wow, if the releases *are* related, talk about a difference in animation quality. 😆
You know, an easy way to not make Beast/Old Man du Jour look like total assholes is change the penalty for rose theft from "death" to "labor to regrow the rose/pay for damages." And then maybe due to being too ill or elderly, or because of an injury, Old Man can't do it. And because she feels guilty for asking for the rose in the first place, Beauty boards at the palace to finish out the labor sentence.
BatB is my guilty pleasure and I give no apologies as that is what originally led me and my husband to our favorite Canadian. Thanks for everything, Phelous!
No matter the quality, it's always fun to see these bigger named actors involved on these projects. If you ever wanted to hear a rendition of Beast voiced by Townsend Coleman (Michelangelo in TMNT 1987) and Beauty voiced by the late Russi Taylor (Minnie Mouse since the 80's), they're in an adventure game called King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (1992), which featured a lot of fairy tale references in general. It even has Robby Benson (voice of the Beast in Disney's Beauty and the Beat from 1991) as the protagonist, Prince Alexander.
@@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose The Beast in that movie has a very sad backstory involving the scars and bruises on his back. Not to mention that he's great at martial arts!
I swear Phelous, you’re cursed to watching any and all Beauty and the Beast films til the end of time. It’s amazing how committed you are to trashing these knockoffs
You know hearing James Earl Jones voice in this cheap animation project and knowing he'd later voice one of the most iconic animated character's of all time is bizarre, even more bizarre when you consider that this was a few years after voicing one of the most iconic villains of all time.
Its weird that the Sesame Street Golden Book Videos have all the original Muppeteers voicing their roles... and then the Masters of the Universe ones have the characters by seemingly whoever they could find that could do an at least kind-of-accurate imitation of the cartoon voices.
15:01 I'd like to see an adaptation where the Beast asks if Beauty will be his wife when she returns, and she says she'll think about it and talks to her father about the Beast's proposal. It'd actually show that Beauty has at least considered it herself, if not developed some affection for the Beast. Furthermore, it could make her father, (or her family, if they care about her,) more desperate to get Beauty to stay.
This is an inaccurate adaptation because the narrator never explains how the merchant's salvaged cargo is completely useless now.
Did it get wet or not
Heheeeee!
The year is 2100, and cyborg Phelous is still reviewing crappy Beauty and the Beast animated movies.
He has time between that and ruling the world?
It is? Damn, I overslept.
@@sweetcinnamonpnchkin Always.
He is updated with advanced sarcasm subroutines that are selective in their application.......
and he's still not any closer to unraveling the true depths of the galaxyhole. also, linkara still hasn't finished the clone saga or gotten back on schedule.
You need to do a “into the beauty-verse” crossover for your April fools episode
I want to see all of the fathers meet each other :D
@@noemitamas4066 What if he did a Bachelorette parody of Beauty and the Beast? I think that would be kinda funny.
Still say wabuu should be machine gunning the east west bored man and son in a die hard parody
@@kitestar YES!
@@kitestar More Wabuu cameos the better
*sees James Earl Jones in the cast*
Alright, he'd make a great beast.
*Hears him as the narrator*
Guess that's what I get for assuming...
I thought the same thing at first!
Yeah he’d be a awesome beast!
Regardless having him narrate is still great. I remember this cartoon our teacher played it for us. The first time I heard his voice as a narrator. His voice is still great to hear later I realized he was Darth Vader. Having him as a narrator would always be great.
Mufasa is a great narrator
I was thinking the same lmao
"Everything the light touches is our failure" - that was a seamless edit
Indeed it shall become a legendary meme😜😎
*Disney’s live action remake of Lion King 2019 in a nutshell*
🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
6:23
I like how Phelan somehow manages to get even more disdainful with each new Beauty and the Beast video.
Poor guy. You can tell these movies are both prematurely aging him and making him more tired and jaded
How many times do they want to repeat the same story?
@@bradleyelsken622 Nah. “Who WOULD miss her?” is hilarious.
Phelous finds another Beauty and the Beast adaptation.
''Ah shit. Here we go again.''
Yeah the poor fellow is dragging himself to a diagnosis... ...for terminal cynicism.
...little did we know, on that fateful day in fall 2014.
9 Beauty and the beasts, 5 Hunchback of Notre-dames, 3 Anastasias, and strangely only 1 of each for Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White. I am kind of surprised the others don't get as much.
Probably because BATB has so many versions of Old Man, who is arguably Phelous' most notable meme character.
Also, 5 Aladdin's and 2 of both Pocahontas and Rapunzel.
@@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose Wabuu is most notable
@@cesarzpontu8886 True, but keep in mind, Wabuu wouldn't exist without Old Man coming before him. 😉
Only one little mermaid as well.
“I cannot live without you!”
“I missed the part where that’s my problem.”
James Earl Jones= "This is indeed a disturbing universe".
Tom Kenny= "HAH! That IS pretty disturbing!"
James and Tom are WAY too good for this movie.
In the words of wisdom of James Earl Jones..
- “Unfortunately for the merchant, his story was a FAILURE!”
Don't forget that old timey classic.
"Everything the light touches is our FAILURE"
“You must take your place in the circle of FAILURE!!”
-Mufasa
''No. I am your FAILURE''
Luke: That’s not true…… That’s impossible!!
Just when Phelan thought he was out of Beauty and the Beast , he gets pulled back in.
There's a million of those
Nah, he ain't done until he reviews the time Tim Curry voiced the Beast for Russia in the 1998 English dub of their 1952 animated version. Wah-ha! 😉
They keep finding him 🤣
The anime beauty and beast design was done yoshitaka amano
That's sounds unintentionally sexual, 😆.
You know, viewing all these Beauty and the Beast adaptations makes me appreciate the Disney animated adaptation more and more.
UA-cam says this video came out 5m ago, but your comment says you replied 3 days ago
Me too
Still, this Beauty and Beast are kinda more healthy of a relationship than the others
@@vasilybullock7967 I think Patreon subscribers get early access
I could even appreciate the live action adaptation after this.
@@ImaNerdANDaGeek As someone who appreciates the live-action whilst acknowledging its flaws, I'm happy to see someone say this. You can't say it's the worst thing ever when *many* worse versions of the fairytale have come out before it. At least BATB '17 had some effort put into it.
Company: Makes a BATB adaptation.
Phelous: "Ahh shit, here we go again..."
The voice work for Beast is so silly in this one I can barely distinguish the real thing from Phelous' satirical reading.
I feel York is really trying hard, but the animation and direction just kill the performance
Voice mixing on James Earl Jones lines is already proving legendary, please randomly insert 'failure' every few months.
I love that every time Phelan sees a raccoon in any of these cartoons, he thinks of Wabuu.
One day Phelous will find the last Beauty and the Beast animated adaptation and will finally be free of this nightmare world.
I mean, not *all* of them are nightmares. The Russian animated version from 1952 & its vastly superior 1998 English dub (superior in its portrayals of the Beast & the romance) are actually quite beautiful. 🥰
@@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose Are these versions available anywhere online? Cause that'll be cool to check them out.
@@brandonluker3660 Yes, absolutely! Hang on, I'll send you the links.
And on that day, Phelous wept, for there were no more films to critique...
The anime movie Belle is now a thing.
_"I find your art style... disturbing."_
Every time someone says a cartoon cannot be a bad actor, I like to point them to one of these Beauty and the Beast movies, where seemingly the only character able to have an expression is Old Man.
*Beauty gasp*
A ninth version of Old Man!? Oh what a gift
Y'know, if Beauty dreamed of green apples, she'd look like a Magritte painting.
Man, looking back, The Goodtimes version is like freaking DISNEY quality, compared to everything we've seen after them.
Yeah, this is almost like the Dingo Pictures version except the story is more coherent.
The anime version is better than goodtimes tho
@Mullerornis Yeah, you have a good point. At least from Dingo Pictures you can get some good chuckles.
The Goodtimes was the peak of Beauty and the Beast adaptations, everything else is just going downhill.
@@SammEater The anime version is better
Ah, another "Beauty's dad" for the collection. 2022 is sure off to a good start.
Old Man is gonna kill Old Pilgrim!
@@ForcedHandleName The fluid buildup in his cranium's gonna kill Old Pilgrim
@@ForcedHandleName At the very least Old Pilgrim is still guaranteed to be better than Señor Mustache
@@Ned_Zeppelin_324 indeed
Everything the light touches, is our *FAILURE*
😂
That one was amazing, I freaking *lost* it. 😆
Completely blindsided me.
I was *literally* just watching the Ruby-Spears one earlier today hoping our BATB king would soon return and here we are! At long last, we get the James Earl Jones-narrated version featuring the weirdly colorful Beast & middle-aged looking Beauty!
there is MORE god
Phelous, I know you make a lot of sarcastic asides about how the viewers don't care about the little details (from figurine variants to company history) that you talk about before getting into the nitty gritty, but I just want to say that your passion for these completely silly bootleg stories -- perhaps more passion than the people working on them had themselves -- makes this sort of thing fascinating. It must take a lot of time, digging up these facts to share with us, and I just wanted to say that I appreciate it. Maybe I can't remember my dad's birth year, but now I can tell people with confidence that Little Golden Book had a He-Man video, and it's all thanks to you!
I actually think the cut-out face thing is a unique and memorable way to show a dream sequence, as it takes advantage of animation as a medium. It'd look SUPER unsettling in live action, but animators have a ton of leeway when it comes to symbolism and suspension of disbelief. Too bad the rest of the movie doesn't have the same creativity, though.
Yeah, that was pretty cool! Wish the rest of the cartoon can be like that...
I can attest to that comparison. The live-action Cannon Movie Tales adaptation from 1986, a version of which I *heavily* grew up on, had also featured dream sequences between Beauty (Rebecca de Mornay) & the Prince (John Savage), but showed off the transition with these cool, ripple effect-looking fade-ins to show us that we were leaving the world of the castle and entering that of Beauty's mind. Now I'm imagining them trying to do what Golden Book did and yikes, it would've looked *horrendous.* 😅
Yes, but then you have to remember how small TVs were in the 80s and how small the dream would have been on one of them.
Nah it's pretty creepy
If it was drawn better maybe
“This is the Phelous review of "Golden Book Beauty & The Beast." You can read along with me in your book. You will know it is time to turn the page when you hear Old Man yell like this… LET’S BEGIN NOW.”
"(LET'S BEGIN NOW!) There was a man from Canada named Phelous."
This really made my day.
There's something strangely nostalgic about the Golden Book Video features, very much in spite of their limited animation. Their comedic take on "The Emperor's New Clothes" always stood out to me.
Oh God, ANOTHER Beauty's Father for the ranks. This is getting out of hand.
Nice purple lighting there Phelan, Pat Morita would be proud.
It’s fun continuity
Beauty looking like she was drawn with a ball point pen.
😂
Great video as always! 😁
And in the same vein as Bevanfield, she gains a three-fingered witch hand during her dream scenes. 😆
*a belle point pen~
@@WxIxLxLxIxAxMxS 😂😂😂
By now, how would people rate the animated BatB features that Phelous has reviewed?
In order from what I consider the worst to the best:
1.Golden Films Beauty and the Beast (looks like a cheap ad and features the three braindead ghosts)
2.Bevanfield Beauty and the Beast (dreary, depressing and wastes Christopher Lee)
3.DEFA Beauty and the Beast (the ugly elephant-man beast gave me nightmares as a child)
4.Burbank Beauty and the Beast (just forgettable)
5.Golden Book Beauty and the Beast (they should have stuck to books)
6.Ruby-Spears Beauty and the Beast (I grew up with R-S cartoons, so they get a nostalgia bonus)
7.Grimm Meisaku Gekijou Beauty and the Beast (suffers from being compressed to hell)
8.Britannica Beauty and the Beast (anything introduced by Pat Morita can't be that bad)
9.Good Times Beauty and the Beast (brought us Old "Weeeeeheeeehee" Man, 'nuff said)
I’d put the DEFA one a bit higher. They get some points because stop motion takes effort. Plus it’s memorable as “the stop motion one were the beast is an elephant” while I can’t remember some of the other ones.
@@starwarsnerd100 I'd appreciate the puppeteering effort, but as I said, the hideous elephant man gave my child self the creeps to the point I couldn't sleep at night for fear that that monster would step out of the closet or from under my bed if I wasn't looking.
Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics’ Beauty And The Beast is the best one, in a non-ironic way. Besides, it’s actually an adaptation of the Grimm’s fairy tale “The Story Of The Summer And Winter Garden”, which is why it feels compressed.
Golden Films are usually the worst because they often spend more than half the runtime on ancillary tagalong characters that add nothing to the plot and serve as nothing more than a way to distract young children. Whatever screentime left over is devoted to a barebones adaptation that either bastardizes the original or removes any characterization to make room for more annoying sidekicks.
@@xFlareLeon Yeah, and they feel so cheap! They hit exactly that threshold where something looks cheap enough to be off-putting, but not so cheap as to be strangely endearing, like Dingo Pictures.
When are we getting the "Into the Old-Manverse" movie?
“Who WOULD miss her?” I admit that I laughed for a little too long at that line.
It's always a treat watching these reviews of another adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, especially those I never knew existed!
It's sad when you realize Michael York did a better job acting in The Land Before Time VII than he did in either Puss n Boots or Beauty and the Beast (Golden Books Version)... also Michael York really knows how to pick animated film roles.
Funny how Michael York voiced a Beast in BATB and then later played the Raoul character in a Phantom of the Opera adaptation (the 1983 TV film). 😆
And considering I saw him do an animated flick with Tim Curry at one point...guess we had a brief little Beast team-up in that one. 😊
I love your profile and picture 😂
Exactly. I’d blame the director.
He did crush it as Ra’s Al Ghul on Batman The Animated Series.
I find it amusing that Michael York and James Jones were both in a Marty Feldman movie called The Last Remake of Beau Geste. Fun connections.
I've always been interested in a version of this story that takes place in modern times. That would imply the Beast was stuck in that castle for centuries before Beauty showed up, which would make the true love message more meaningful.
That was the Ron Perlman version, I think?
Hmmm yeah
Belle by Mamoru Hosoda is a great modern adaptation that I highly recommend for you to check out.
''Everything the light touches is our failure.''
Said Dingo, Goodtimes, Q5, and pretty much every other loser company Phelous has ever reviewed something from.
It has to be said, it's a real testament to your comedic writing/performing/editing that even after umpteen variations of a single story, I laughed harder watching this one than almost any other video of yours. Hope you continue to hone your craft, and I'll still be watching you in one form or another in 20 years.
Nice to see the OLD MAN taking on the job of teaching other Fathers of Beauty how it is done.
Phelous + Beauty and the Beast = Comedy Gold. 🤣🤣🤣
"I get my kicks above the wasteline sunshine"
I didn't expect a "One Night in Bangkok" reference
I really need to look this up😅
I’m escaping to the one place that hasn’t been ruined by Beauty and the Beast movies…SPACE!!!
Aw, man, did you have use this quote here? Because even Tim Curry couldn't escape Beauty & the Beast! 😆He played Russia's iteration of the Beast in a 1998 English dub and despite his voice *really* not fitting the character design, I consider his characterization & performance to be one of the best! 🥰
(7:44, 8:33, 10:40) The Old Man - the devil on the old merchant's shoulder. 😈 I like that.
Rip James Earl Jones, the narrator in this film. Godspeed
I actually loved that they carved the face out to show the dream, I love how abstract that is.
11:25 That was actually a clever joke you put in considering this movie is SO boring, I wouldn't be surprised if the narrator really was sleeping on the job.
One of these days, I'd like to see Phelous do a tier list for characters called or referred to being beautiful or handsome. I know beauty is subjective but I'm sure we can all admit when actual effort is put into it compared to others.
Everything the light touches is our failure.
I just watched Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête, and a lot of the scene compositions in this Beauty and the Beast look similar to that movie. I wonder if they used that film as a reference or directly traced the frames. It's really bizarre how close they look. Look at the scenes inside of Beauty's house, the dining room in the castle, and the long hallway the Beast stands in; they're like direct copies from La Belle et la Béte. Might also explain the weird scene composition sometimes, trying to translate a live action scene to animation without much use of perspective or shading.
Edit: After seeing their costumes later in this video, I'm almost certain they used Cocteau's film to make this one.
Funny, I too was watching that one yesterday. Yep, the costumes are *definitely* Cocteau-inspired, capturing that same Johannes Vermeer aesthetic with the family's peasant clothes, and for Beauty's time at the castle, they use looks that echo Josette Day's 18th-century royal attire. As well as making both Beasts look like they have giant shoulders. 😆😉
Thankfully, they didn't copy Cocteau Twins for the soundtrack. Heh heh.
(I'm sorry)
It's pretty much inspired every Beauty and the Beast film the same way Thief of Baghdad has for Aladdin
@@Tareltonlives True, but I'm mostly talking about taking the exact shot compositions from the Cocteau film and using them in this one.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who caught that. I was looking at Beautty’s “peasant” costume and I joked out loud, “Wait. Isn’t that sort of like Josette Day’s costume? Even the hair pulled through the head wrap?” I even noticed this animated abomination wearing a string of pearls in her hair. So you’re right. It’s bizarre, and in better hands I might have considered it a lovely homage to one of my all-time favorite movies.
But we get THIS! 🤦🏽♀️😂
The “everything the light touches” edit was so seamless I would have thought it was part of the movie had I not read the comments.
Michael York’s highly enunciated singing as Puss has a touch of exuberance to it. I’m sure he enjoyed at least some of that voice work.
"I get my kicks above the waistline sunshine!" ha!! Excellently used reference!
"I missed the part where that's my problem!" Hah!!!
Was that a Tim Curry SPACE reference?! XD
@jbiehlable Not if you've heard the song One Night In Bangkok
@@JamieSwitzer I’ll have to look it up😅
@@JamieSwitzer I understand it now🥳👍 pretty cool
Kind of surprised they didn't use James to voice the Beast. Sure, he makes a terrific narrator, but something about Michael York's voice (which is still very distinctive) just doesn't seem to fit that design.
I feel like he'd be good for a Beast character, but one with a a more elegant design. Jones might fit it as well, but again it would help if the design was more imposing.
I feel a weird urge to create a beauty and the beast cartoon, only so phelous is forced to review it, I wonder why
Do it bro
6:53 “What am I going to do with him?”
Beauty’s father would make a handsome throw rug 😂
Bold of you to call anyone in this movie "handsome"
Michael York just chewing the scenery of this animated film for no reason is glorious.
York and Jones pretty much stop this adaptation from being complete garbage.
You know... I'm usually not against celebrity voice-actors (especially if they're actual actors), but hearing James Earl Jones slumming it is still depressing af. Also, why don't they ever let them voice the beast?
The early credits gag still makes me laugh every time
Agreed
The weirdest thing Golden Books Home Video probably ever released was the first two episodes of Toxic Crusaders. You know, the environmental kid's show based on the hard R rated indie film where a kid gets his head crushed by a truck? Also, why the hell does the Beast speak with the same vocal infliction as Bane? I can't be the only one that noticed that.
I was just thinking it’s been a while since Phelous did anything with Beauty and the Beast.
Close to a year almost...the series was dying of loneliness. 😆
Right?!
@@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose eh! You said the thing🤣
I actually watched that one with Big Bird as a kid. Kinda want to see the Masters of the Universe one just for kicks.
Imagine being a kid and getting a He-man tape only for it to have even less animation then a Filmation episode.
Oh man, the editing of the character voice lines made for some great jokes in this one. Almost like a mid-2010s youtube poop after they really figured out sentence mixing well, while still sticking to your usual comedy style. It was incredibly entertaining.
With the heavy dream factor in this review, I was expecting a return of THE NIGHTMARE BECOMES REALITY gag, but I guess it's been lying dormant for too long now. Oh well.
Your first animated review of 2022! Keep up the good work!
Your editing and voicing acting for these are just too hilarious 🤣🤣
credit: a beauty that actually changes into her gift clothes! rare for these cheaper ones!
Here's my obligatory reminder/request/wish that Phelous unveils the hidden wonder that is Tim Curry's Beast in Beauty & the Beast: The Tale of the Crimson Flower (1998) to his viewers someday. 🤞🌹
Not that I'm not still planning on it myself, but I *very* *much* want to see *his* take on the film. 😉🥰
I just remembered that there is the Anime movie called "Belle", that released this month.
@@TommyDeonauthsArchives Yep, saw that one last week. Animation was gorgeous, songs were lovely, plot was unique for the fairytale, & it even contained some obligatory references to the Disney version. 🥰
Sorry, he only reviews the sh!tty versions~ That one's actually good!
You should do a ranking video, ranking all these Beauty and the Beast versions.
there may come a day when there are no more beauty & the beast adaptations for phelous to review, but it is not this day.
Oh, how I miss these! Bless your heart, Phelan)
The only notable thing from this Beauty and the Beast to me, besides the Beast's ridiculous design, it's that it used the same public domain music as Chespirito's shows. Not gonna lie, I kinda liked that.
Lol, really? I'll have to rewatch! XD
@@julioagua Well, not all of it. But I did recognize some.
The 10th time you review Beauty and the Beast i’m rewatching all your previous reviews of it.
I'm amazed that they somehow got James Earl Jones to narrate this story. I never watched any of the Golden Books videos, but some of the covers looked oddly nostalgic to me.
No choice, we need a 10th BATB review by Phelous
And then we did……
TECHNICALLY
“Can we go see Belle? We have Belle at home.”
Belle at home:
This beast doesn't even know any cool martial arts!
@@richardpulido4624 Old Man could’ve improved it though even if it caused tonal whiplash. Need more Old Man for any Beauty and the Beast adaptation. [Old Man:HEEEEEEEEEEEE.] [Hosoda:What the fu**?]
@@BigEOT3 I didn't think there was any problem with it at all. Kylie McNeill in the English version of the movie is an amazing singer and I especially loved how she preformed U and Gales of Song.
@@richardpulido4624 I was kidding.
I love Belle. I think the only post-Toei Hosoda film I’m not a fan of is Boy and the Beast. It’s not bad, I just don’t care for it.
@@BigEOT3 that's alright. Have you seen The Digimon Movie and Summer Wars before? They existed before Belle.
RIP James Earl Jones
16:05 Actually, this scene was redone last-minute, and the actor playing Father wasn't available to come back for the shoot, so they just slapped on his lines from the original. That's why the sound quality is so different.
Aw, I loved the Little Golden Book videos
Look at the bright side, Phelous: one more review of Beauty and the Beast and you get the next one free!
Funny that Japam just recently released a modern reimagining of Beauty and the beast with an English dub released this month, Belle.
Oh yeah, great point! I saw that one last week and didn't even make the connection! But wow, if the releases *are* related, talk about a difference in animation quality. 😆
Kylie Mcneill did an amazing job singing and voicing Belle/Suzu. You can find her channel on UA-cam as well.
I need to see that one!
You know, an easy way to not make Beast/Old Man du Jour look like total assholes is change the penalty for rose theft from "death" to "labor to regrow the rose/pay for damages."
And then maybe due to being too ill or elderly, or because of an injury, Old Man can't do it. And because she feels guilty for asking for the rose in the first place, Beauty boards at the palace to finish out the labor sentence.
I don't know why I love watching these reviews so much, it's always the weirdest, most obscure kids VHS', but I look forward to every new Video!
BatB is my guilty pleasure and I give no apologies as that is what originally led me and my husband to our favorite Canadian.
Thanks for everything, Phelous!
Man, one day Phelous will find some forgotten VHS of Beauty and the beast from Chechnya or something...
No matter the quality, it's always fun to see these bigger named actors involved on these projects.
If you ever wanted to hear a rendition of Beast voiced by Townsend Coleman (Michelangelo in TMNT 1987) and Beauty voiced by the late Russi Taylor (Minnie Mouse since the 80's), they're in an adventure game called King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (1992), which featured a lot of fairy tale references in general. It even has Robby Benson (voice of the Beast in Disney's Beauty and the Beat from 1991) as the protagonist, Prince Alexander.
15:26 To be fair, if Beauty's sisters are like the Goodtimes ones then they probably wouldn't be feeding their father
"Euuuugh!!!" Old Man judging and mentoring this Old Man was hilarious. "I have nothing more to teach you."
It’s not a Beauty and The Beast video without Old Man and his money swindling ways
And with that, Phelous, you have unlocked a secret area of my memories from my childhood that I had thought was long forgotten. 0_0
Man, there just can't be enough beauty and the beast versions.
Belle (2021): "No, no there cannot." 🌹
@@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose The Beast in that movie has a very sad backstory involving the scars and bruises on his back. Not to mention that he's great at martial arts!
jesus how many animated adaptations of beauty and the beast are their
Tons
TOO many!
InfinitHEEEEEEEEEEE
Not enough
Japan just recently made there own modern reimagining of the story, with Belle, and its english dub still out in theaters as of now.
I swear Phelous, you’re cursed to watching any and all Beauty and the Beast films til the end of time. It’s amazing how committed you are to trashing these knockoffs
I love that Old Man is now just a coach for Beauty’s fathers
He IS the Gold Standard
You know hearing James Earl Jones voice in this cheap animation project and knowing he'd later voice one of the most iconic animated character's of all time is bizarre, even more bizarre when you consider that this was a few years after voicing one of the most iconic villains of all time.
Its weird that the Sesame Street Golden Book Videos have all the original Muppeteers voicing their roles... and then the Masters of the Universe ones have the characters by seemingly whoever they could find that could do an at least kind-of-accurate imitation of the cartoon voices.
The Beast in his Human Prince form look's like he's just a few generations of in-breeding away from growing a Hapsburg chin.
Congratulations on getting married
15:01
I'd like to see an adaptation where the Beast asks if Beauty will be his wife when she returns, and she says she'll think about it and talks to her father about the Beast's proposal.
It'd actually show that Beauty has at least considered it herself, if not developed some affection for the Beast. Furthermore, it could make her father, (or her family, if they care about her,) more desperate to get Beauty to stay.
I missed Phelan making fun of ugly, but yet comprehensible cartoons.
I feel like Phelan now can be considered as expert in Beauty and The Beast.
And so, Phelan teaches us how Inception is REALLY done
If there is anything I wait for it would be Phelous's bootleg fairy tale reviews!
Fairy tales are public domain and this came a decade before the Disney over.
@@magicalpasta5462 thanks for being the Akhsualy guy here