tale as old as time, true as it can be

so today was an extra disneyfied day. we (me, my sisters, brothers, parents, brother-in-law, and nephew) went to see disney on ice. it was good in case you were wondering, though both my parents (actually i'm not so sure about my dad) fell asleep. total waste of tickets. my main problem was that they put princess tiana into a lot of the parts. and no, before you start to think the worst of me, i'm not racist. i'm not thrilled about the idea of adding a new disney princess (i'm not a big fan of change) and a modern day princess from new orleans thrills me even less, but whatever. but seriously, your movie hasnt even come out yet, get out of the show. they left out a lot of main disney character to put her in??

after lunch and picking up the glasses and contacts from the eye doctor, we went back home and my brother-in-law announces that he feels like watching a good disney show/movie, which i'm always up for. after going through a lengthy list of disney movies we have, we decide on beauty and the beast (the original vhs from 1991) because he had never seen it before.

sidenote: i never understand these people who have gone through their whole lives without watching some of these disney classics. have you been living under a rock your whole life?? i realize that you may not have been taken to see them as a kid, but theyre on tv all the time. watch them.

other side note: my brother insists that cogsworth is me. everything about him apparently screams me. i'm not sure how i feel about that yet.

anyways, there are a bunch of parts in the movie that you have to wonder about. how did belle get the beast on phillipe? how does gaston eat those eggs with their shells? how does she just wipe the mud off her books all the time (it doesnt work)? but we overlook these things because it is a disney movie and the whole is better than a sum of its parts. except for one thing, which has always annoyed me...

where were the prince's parents in the beginning?? we all know that the rose would bloom until his 21st birthday so we can assume by the end of the movie he's 21(which by the way means i'm older than him :/). but during the be our guest song, lumiere mentions that they'd been enchanted for ten years. that would make the prince eleven when he was turned to a beast. what kind of eleven year old lives alone and looks so old in the stained glass story?? and what kind of enchantress would do that to an eleven year old?? i mean, he's a kid for god's sake, ease up a bit.

i realize that, being a kid's movie, things like this arent supposed to be looked into, but come on disney.

i have this thing where i always find the stuff like this in every book movie or show. the parts that just dont make sense or little things actors do that shouldve been cut. my older sister used to hate it. the fact that i can still enjoy/love whatever it is even with its flaws means i'm awesome. just in case you were wondering.

*Beauty and the Beast - Celine Dion