Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Family, Fantasy, Romance • 2h 9m
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
Best English-friendly & video release
2D: Disney 4K Blu-ray
3D: International Disney 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
Updated 6 months ago
Best audio release
About the film
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.
Directors: David Hand & Ben Sharpsteen & William Cottrell & Larry Morey & Perce Pearce & Wilfred Jackson
Mono track is on the included Blu-ray; 4K Blu-ray missing original mono. LaserDisc probably better
Director: Mike Judge
Video format: 4K Streaming
2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray
Japan Studio Ghibli 4K Blu-ray announced for a November 25, 2026 release
Japanese audio: 2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray/US GKIDS Blu-ray
English dub (Disney): 1998 US Disney VHS has better sounding vocals despite altered music and sound effects, the US Disney LaserDisc has limited audio, and 2003 DVD is a fake 5.1 upmix
Releases from 2010 onward have the original music and sound effects, but distorted vocals
English dub (Streamline): 1996 Japan remastered LaserDisc, available in Ghibli Ga Ippai Collection boxset
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
BD LPCM 5.1
The DTS-HD on the UHD has been dynamically compressed, has had its center channel boosted, and surrounds lowered (typical modern nearfield mix for soundbars). Very different from the BD and DVD tracks. The BD LPCM is basically just a lossless version of the DTS and AC3 from the original DVD (the AC3 actually being the superior mix on that particular release).
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Michael Bay
Video format: HD Streaming
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
4K possibly teased?
Directors: Bill Roberts & Paul Satterfield & Wilfred Jackson & Ben Sharpsteen & James Algar & T. Hee & Hamilton Luske & Samuel Armstrong & Jim Handley & Norman Ferguson & David Hand & Ford Beebe Jr.
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
1991 CAV LaserDisc includes an approximation of the original Fantasound mix in Dolby Surround using the surviving magnetic mixdown, using Stokowski's original mixing notes as a reference. Original aggressive pans and dynamic range are left in tact.
The 2000 DVD uses this same mix in discrete 5.0, but with some unnecessary dynamic range compression + a redub of all Deems Taylor audio with Corey Burton.
The 7.1 mix on the 2010 Blu-ray sounds poor, having been hit with excessive noise reduction, dynamic range compression, original aggressive pans no longer in tact, and the channel usage no longer resembles Stokowski's original intended sound design.
Director: Chris Columbus
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Disney 4K Blu-ray has encoding issues with bitrates dipping into 40mbps, and Kaleidescape has better encoding than Disney see caps
Old Fox Blu-ray master is stretched and sharpened
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
2014 "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Japan Blu-ray or US Disney Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · lddb.com (opens in a new tab)
2014 "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Japan Blu-ray
2014 "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Japan Blu-ray
Comparisons: https://slow.pics/c/6JWnlfit
All sources are within margin of error. Comparisons: Japanese, English
Alternate Streamline English dub is available only on 1994 Fox LD.
More Family on Blu-ray
Director: George Pal
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Original Stereo mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray, Sony Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Original Stereo mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray, Sony Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal's 4K release is similar in encode quality, but has significant glitches in multiple frames. See comparisons 9-16 here: https://slow.pics/c/YkSVb3Ey
The pitch of the StudioCanal 4K's English audio is too high
Criterion has more extras than StudioCanal.
Director: Paul King
StudioCanal UK 4K Blu-ray minimal picture upgrade (2K upscale)
StudioCanal UK 4K Blu-ray has good new Atmos mix
Director: Victor Fleming
3D: Warner Bros 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
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