Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Family, Fantasy, Romance • 2h 9m
Overview
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Emma Thompson, Ewan McGregor, Josh Gad, Hattie Morahan, Haydn Gwynne, Gerard Horan, Ray Fearon, Ian McKellen, Nathan Mack, Audra McDonald, Stanley Tucci, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Clive Rowe, Thomas Padden, Rita Davies, D.J. Bailey, Adrian Schiller, Harriet Jones, Adam Mitchell, Tom Turner, Michael Jibson, Zoe Rainey, Daisy Duczmal, Jolyon Coy, Jimmy Johnston, Dean Street, Alexis Loizon, Sophie Reid, Rafaëlle Cohen, Carla Nella, Obioma Ugoala, Lynne Wilmot, Jane Fowler, Alison Harding, Chris Andrew Mellon, Jemma Alexander, Sandy Strallen, Dale Branston, Daniel Ioannou, Peter Challis, Wendy Baldock, Norma Atallah, Leo Andrew, Steven Butler, Sharon Gomez, Jacqui Jameson, Vivien Parry, Simone Sault, Beth Willetts, Mandy Montanez, Tom Oakley, William Bozier, Jak Allen-Anderson, Phil Grannel, Freddie August, Nicola Keen, Ebony Molina, Alison Jenkins, Ellen O'Grady, Dawn Buckland, Rebecca Mckinnis, Jody Hall, Ben Fox, Nathan Vaughan Harris, Tim Stanley, Ben Clare, Marina Abdeen, Danielle Acors, Hayley Ainsley, Rhianne Alleyn, Gabby Antrobus, Sophie Atkins, Koko Basigara, Holly Bluett, Daisy Boyles, Ava Brennan, Sophia Brown, Sophie Carmen-Jones, Cassie Clare, Tanya Cumberland, Natalie Davis, Paige Drury-Lawrence, Stephanie Elstob, Cordelia Farnworth, Cj Field, Lily Frazer, Lucy Alexa Gilbert, Helen Gulstan, Selina Hamilton, Leah Hill, Abigayle Honeywill, Chelsea Inez, Blythe Jandoo, Shireen Jathoonia, Billie Kay-Piper, Hannah Kenna-Thomas, Ella Kora, Jennifer Leung, Emily Loumba, Cassie Macmillian, Fiona McDonald, Samira Mighty, Sonoya Mizuno, Anna Momcilovic, Nicola Mooi, Nicole O'Neill, Abiona Omonua, Jazz Peters, Courtney Pruce, Kayla Radam, Katie Singh, Lucy St. Louis, Ruth Steele, Jasmine Takacs, Naomi Weijand, Leah West, Skye Lucia Degruttola, Timia Julien-Box, Adelaide Morgan, Gemma Fray, Lara Decaro, Max Brophy, Samuel Brown, Daniel Daszek-Green, Freddie Hunter, Joey Brown, Tom Burgering, Nate Leung, Kai Gordon, Oscar Francisco, Harry Marcus, Johanna Smitz, Rudi Goodman, Isobel Hamilton, Karl Farrer
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: James Cameron
Disney 4K Blu-ray's artificial smoothening of facial textures making actors look unnatural, grain reduction and other changes to make the film look less like a product of its time
Old WEB-DL or HDTV rip for non AI version
Director: James Cameron
Disney 4K Blu-ray's artificial smoothening of facial textures making actors look unnatural, grain reduction and other changes to make the film look less like a product of its time
Old WEB-DL or HDTV rip for non AI version
Director: Michael Bay
Director: Michael Bay
Director: Michael Bay
Director: Michael Bay
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Disney 4K Blu-ray for the 4K Theatrical Cut or 2002 Vista Series DVD for the Director's Cut, alleycat's DC restoration better
Theatrical Cut: Disney 4K Blu-ray caps
Director's Cut: 2002 Vista Series DVD, alleycat's DC restoration better
Closest to original: 1994 Hollywood Pictures LaserDisc, other LDs are probably the same
Blu-rays only have 5.1 upmixes but probably fine
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Disney 4K Blu-ray for the 4K Theatrical Cut or 2002 Vista Series DVD for the Director's Cut, alleycat's DC restoration better
Theatrical Cut: Disney 4K Blu-ray caps
Director's Cut: 2002 Vista Series DVD, alleycat's DC restoration better
Closest to original: 1994 Hollywood Pictures LaserDisc, other LDs are probably the same
Blu-rays only have 5.1 upmixes but probably fine
3D: Disney International 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
3D: Disney International 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
3D: Disney International 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
3D: Disney International 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
Director: Tim Burton
Director: Tim Burton
Director: David Fincher
Disney 4K Blu-ray or Fox 2009 Blu-ray or Kinowelt Entertainment 2008 Germany Blu-ray for a purist version
Disney 4K Blu-ray or Fox 2009 Blu-ray for a purist version or Kinowelt Entertainment 2008 Germany Blu-ray from the original 1999 telecine transfer
Disney 4K Blu-ray, while a good release by itself, is very revisionist albeit made by Fincher. It has a huge amount of tinkering, a different grade, and at times uncanny with the sharpening. Caps of just how revisionist the new master is.
Cinema DTS - all Blu-ray tracks have significant limiting.
Disney 4K Blu-ray has some alterations, otherwise similar to the Fox Blu-ray
A blog article going over the home video history of Fight Club: https://notonbluray.com/blog/fight-club-compared-blu-ray-vs-itunes-vs-d-vhs-vs-dvd-vs-laserdisc/
Director: David Fincher
Disney 4K Blu-ray or Fox 2009 Blu-ray or Kinowelt Entertainment 2008 Germany Blu-ray for a purist version
Disney 4K Blu-ray or Fox 2009 Blu-ray for a purist version or Kinowelt Entertainment 2008 Germany Blu-ray from the original 1999 telecine transfer
Disney 4K Blu-ray, while a good release by itself, is very revisionist albeit made by Fincher. It has a huge amount of tinkering, a different grade, and at times uncanny with the sharpening. Caps of just how revisionist the new master is.
Cinema DTS - all Blu-ray tracks have significant limiting.
Disney 4K Blu-ray has some alterations, otherwise similar to the Fox Blu-ray
A blog article going over the home video history of Fight Club: https://notonbluray.com/blog/fight-club-compared-blu-ray-vs-itunes-vs-d-vhs-vs-dvd-vs-laserdisc/
Director: Robert Stevenson
Director: Robert Stevenson
Director: Ridley Scott
Director: Ridley Scott
More Family on Blu-ray
1991 Warner Bros LaserDisc (for original mono track)
1996 Warner Bros 25th Anniversary LaserDisc has isolated music and effects track (incorrectly labeled "music minus vocals") not present on any other release
1991 Warner Bros LaserDisc (for original mono track)
1996 Warner Bros 25th Anniversary LaserDisc has isolated music and effects track (incorrectly labeled "music minus vocals") not present on any other release
Director: Ken Hughes
MGM Blu-ray's stereo track.
MGM's 7.1 track is a remix with a few flaws and much worse fidelity. Capelight's stereo and 7.1 track are both from the remix.
The movie was originally premiered as a roadshow release, with a a 70mm 6-Track Stereo mix. This mix, unfortunately has not been released on home video.
The closest thing to that mix, is the stereo track included on the 2010 Blu-ray. It sounds great, with high fidelity and little filtering. It's lossy, but that doesn't matter very much.
Both the DVD 5.1 and the Blu-ray 7.1 tracks (identical on both discs) are a new remix, rather than a repackaging of the original mix. The 7.1 track sounds quite muffled, though not evenly so. The Capelight Blu-ray's lossless stereo track uses the same remix, but with higher fidelity than the surround tracks, sounding significantly less muffled. Compared to the original, this remix sounds wider and more "cleaned up". The remix contains a handful of errors, for example the intermission cue fades out, rather than ending correctly.
Comparison samples
Director: Ken Hughes
MGM Blu-ray's stereo track.
MGM's 7.1 track is a remix with a few flaws and much worse fidelity. Capelight's stereo and 7.1 track are both from the remix.
The movie was originally premiered as a roadshow release, with a a 70mm 6-Track Stereo mix. This mix, unfortunately has not been released on home video.
The closest thing to that mix, is the stereo track included on the 2010 Blu-ray. It sounds great, with high fidelity and little filtering. It's lossy, but that doesn't matter very much.
Both the DVD 5.1 and the Blu-ray 7.1 tracks (identical on both discs) are a new remix, rather than a repackaging of the original mix. The 7.1 track sounds quite muffled, though not evenly so. The Capelight Blu-ray's lossless stereo track uses the same remix, but with higher fidelity than the surround tracks, sounding significantly less muffled. Compared to the original, this remix sounds wider and more "cleaned up". The remix contains a handful of errors, for example the intermission cue fades out, rather than ending correctly.
Comparison samples
Directors: Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Directors: Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Directors: Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Directors: Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Arrow 4K Blu-ray see caps
Info: Arrow 4K Blu-ray is scanned from interpositive film, thus having a softer than the first title.
Original: Arrow 4K Blu-ray vs New Line LaserDisc
Arrow 4K Blu-ray see caps
Info: Arrow 4K Blu-ray is scanned from interpositive film, thus having a softer than the first title.
Original: Arrow 4K Blu-ray vs New Line LaserDisc
Arrow 4K Blu-ray see caps
Dolby Stereo: Arrow 4K Blu-ray or New Line LaserDisc for line absent on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray releases
Info: Arrow 4K Blu-ray is scanned from interpositive film, thus having a softer than the first title.
Arrow 4K Blu-ray see caps
Dolby Stereo: Arrow 4K Blu-ray or New Line LaserDisc for line absent on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray releases
Info: Arrow 4K Blu-ray is scanned from interpositive film, thus having a softer than the first title.
Director: Bob Clark
Director: Bob Clark
Edit History
4/9/2026
Format
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Best English-Friendly Release
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2D: Disney 4K Blu-ray
3D: International Disney 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
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2D: Disney 4K Blu-ray
3D: International Disney 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
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2D: Disney 4K Blu-ray
3D: International Disney 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
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2D: Disney 4K Blu-ray
3D: International Disney 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
Blu-ray.com
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