Belle's Magical World

Infobox Film
name = Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World


caption = The Special Edition DVD Cover
director = Cullen Blaine
Daniel de la Vega
Barbara Dourmashkin
Dale Kase
Bob Kline
Burt Medall
Mitch Rochon
producer = Bob Kline
David W. King
writer = Alice Brown
Richard Cray
Carter Crocker
Sheree Guitar
Chip Hand
starring = Paige O'Hara
Robby Benson
music = Harvey Cohen
distributor = Walt Disney Home Video
released = February 17, 1998
runtime = 70 min. (original)
92 min. (Special Edition)
country = USA
language = English
imdb_id = 0167038
amg_id = 1:179293
preceded_by = "" (1997)

"Belle's Magical World" is a 1998 direct-to-video Disney midquel film and the third installment in the " Beauty and the Beast" trilogy. It was originally released on February 17, 1998, and features the voices of Paige O'Hara as Belle, Robby Benson as The Beast, Jerry Orbach as Lumiere, David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth, and Anne Rogers, who replaced Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Potts. The film features two songs performed by Belle, "Listen With Our Hearts" and "A Little Thought". This storyline is set within the timeline of the original "Beauty and the Beast" (after the fight with the wolves, but before the fight against Gaston).

Due to its rather low quality of animation, it is believed that "Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World" is a compilation of four surviving episodes of Disney's planned but failed "Beauty and the Beast" TV series, which would have been about Belle's adventures in the Beast's castle.

When first released in 1998, this film was titled "Belle's Magical World" and consisted of three connected segments called "The Perfect Word", "Fifi's Folly" and "The Broken Wing". For 2003 Special Edition, released on February 25, the title was changed to "Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World", and included another segment called "Mrs. Potts's Party", making the final film 22 minutes longer.

egments

*The Perfect Word – The dinner between Belle and the Beast goes wrong, but neither wants to make the first move and apologize, despite Lumiere and Cogsworth's attempts at persuasion. Three enchanted objects, Webster the dictionary, LePlume the pen, and Crane the pile of papers, want to make things all right between the two of them, and write a fake letter of apology from Beast to Belle. Upon reading the letter, Belle apologizes to the Beast, and everything is all right until Beast finds out that the letter was forged. He then banishes the three objects out of the castle, but Belle teaches him to forgive them because their intentions were good.

*Fifi's Folly – Lumiere wants to prepare something special for the fifth anniversary of his date with Fifi the featherduster, but isn't very good at it, so he enlists Belle's help. Fifi, mistaking the preparations for an actual romance between Belle and Lumiere, becomes jealous and attempts to seduce Cogsworth, but in the end everything is cleared up.

*Mrs. Potts's Party – Mrs. Potts is very depressed, so Belle and other enchanted objects decide to cheer her up with a surprise party. Planning a surprise party isn't very easy when you have to make sure that the Beast doesn't wake up and that Mrs. Potts doesn't find out about the party, especially when Cogsworth and Lumiere's rivalry is involved.

*The Broken Wing – Belle doesn't show up for the lunch Beast ordered her to come to, and instead cares for the wounded bird. Since the Beast loathes birds, Belle has to teach him to accept it, which in the end she manages to do.

Voice actors and their characters

* Paige O'Hara - Belle
* Robby Benson - The Beast
* Jerry Orbach - Lumiere
* David Ogden Stiers - Cogsworth
* Anne Rogers - Mrs. Potts
* Kimmy Robertson - Fifi
* Jo Anne Worley - Armoire
* Gregory Grudt - Chip
* Frank Welker - Sultan
* Jim Cummings - Webster
* Jeff Bennett - Crane
* Rob Paulsen - LePlume
* April Winchell - Chandeleria

The naming of "Webster", a new character to the "Beauty and the Beast" franchise, had to be cleared through Disney's legal department, who obtained consent from publisher Merriam-Webster.

Continuity

This film reveals that the featherduster's name is Fifi. In "Beauty and the Beast" she is credited as "featherduster", while in the Broadway version of "Beauty and the Beast" she's known as "Babette".

ee also

*List of animated feature films

References

External links

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* [http://www.ultimatedisney.com/bellesmagicalworld.html Movie/DVD Review at UltimateDisney.com]