How long was production on Walt Disney Pictures' animated feature film Beauty and the Beast?
Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
Production of Beauty and the Beast was to be completed on a compressed timeline of two years rather than the traditional four-year Disney Feature Animation production schedule; this was due to the loss of production time spent developing the earlier Purdum version of the film.[10] Most of the production was done at the main Feature Animation studio, housed in the Air Way facility in Glendale, California. A smaller team at the Disney-MGM Studios theme park in Lake Buena Vista, Florida assisted the California team on several scenes, particularly the "Be Our Guest" number.[12]
Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 94% based on reviews from 110 critics, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Enchanting, sweepingly romantic, and featuring plenty of wonderful musical numbers, Beauty and the Beast is one of Disney's most elegant animated offerings."[73] The film also holds a 95/100 on Metacritic, which indicates the reviews as "universal acclaim".[74] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare "A+" grade.[75]