Disney's Beauty and the Beast Magical Ballroom Disney's Beauty and the Beast Magical Ballroom Disney's Beauty and the Beast Magical Ballroom is a 2000 video game which is part of Disney's Beauty and the Beast media franchise. This game and "Disney’s The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea" were designed to "combin[e] girls’ creative interests with their natural play patterns". The game contains a collection of mini-games for children based around the characters of the Disney animated movie "Beauty and the Beast". Software and CD Rom explains "The premise, from which the program's activities are derived, involves a party that Belle and her friends are throwing
Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) Beast" parodies the idea of excessive masculinity, a trait shared by both Gaston and the Beast. Obsessed with his own virility, Gaston shares several opinions associated with "the hyper-masculine male", boasting many "traditionally heroic" qualities and beliefs. Representing "everything that can go wrong in the heterosexual male" according to "The Meanings of "Beauty and the Beast": A Handbook" author Jerry Griswold, Gaston is essentially a caricature of hypermasculinity; he proudly hunts, drinks, fights, spits, bullies and lies in addition to being shallow and ignorant, exuding what are considered to be some of the worst masculine traits. Gaston intimidates and threatens