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Beauty and the Beast: Special Edition

By Desson Howe
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 4, 2002; Page WE35

This rerelease of Walt Disney's 1991 animated movie has been digitally remastered for IMAX screens, with improved picture and sound quality. The movie is still about Belle (voice of Paige O'Hara), a good-natured girl who falls in love with a lonely, shaggy beast (Robby Benson) who's really a prince placed under a spell because he could not love. The story's big added feature is a sequence (with a song), "Human Again," in which the Beast's enchanted objects (Mrs. Potts, Lumiere, Cogsworth and company) express their desire to become human beings once more.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: SPECIAL EDITION (G, 94 minutes)Contains nothing objectionable. At the Maryland Science Center, Baltimore.

Belle and the Beast share a tender moment in Disney's remastered "Beauty and the Beast." (AP Photo)

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