Belle and the villagers' song, where she's singing about her books and the poor provincial town, and the villagers are all "She's nothing like the rest of us" is hands-down my favorite song. I almost put it on my 2012 playlist.

This is also my favorite.

I would thnk Sweeney is harder to sing than ITW, FWIW.

Gaston was ruined for me because I worked at a children's theatre summer camp, and the theme was multiculturalism. The director had them sing a song she had written to the tune of Gaston-

"No one's nice like Iceland
No one's ice like Greenland
No ones' food is incredibly rice like Thailand".

It was awful

I agree with Dana, and not (I think) just because I learned it first.

I would thnk Sweeney is harder to sing than ITW, FWIW.

Yeah? And did the movie work? I never saw it.

My objections to B&B and clearly I am alone in this is that they messed with the original fairy tale to such an extent that many of the original themes were lost.

They added a weird Frankenstein element where the town came after Beast with torches and IIRC this weird love triangle.

I just ddnt appreciate it at all.

Gaston was ruined for me because I worked at a children's theatre summer camp, and the theme was multiculturalism. The director had them sing a song she had written to the tune of Gaston

Holy shit, that is bad. It makes my head hurt!

The Sweeney movie was okay but the music was not the strong point.

they messed with the original fairy tale to such an extent that many of the original themes were lost.

I kind of assume Disney will do that with every movie, though.

The Sweeney movie was okay but the music was not the strong point.

Yeah.

Well, assuming Disney pushes forward with it, I guess we'll see.