What is most disappointing about this  review is  it's focus on Disney.....what about the 1946  Beauty and the Beast masterpiece  by Jean Cocteau ?  Completely ignored.  duh ?

It look likes Disney has  yet again taken  a  myth meant for ALL and reduced it to a simplistic Kindergarten story for girls.

Director Jean Cocteau - "My aim would be to make the Beast so human, so sympathetic, so superior to men that his transformation into Prince Charming would come as come as a terrible blow to Beauty  (i.e. Belle), condemning her to a humdrum marriage  and a future that I summed up in that last sentence of  all fairy tales: 'and they had many children'".

Quite ironic  -  and even though  gay Cocteau's real life lover was the actor who played the Beast  sexual politics was kept out of his script. Wise

Feminists note Cocteau says "superior to men" -  the Beast is a  transcendent mythic being -  not a sexy hunk with anger issues.

Beauty's maturing  from  naive to wise is also  transcendent.