Don't get this on blu ray
The extras might be fine, but the film itself doesn't benefit from the higher resolution. In fact it works against it. The film was clearly designed to be watched in lower resolution and with blurrier image: in some scenes the sharpness of the image only highlights the lack of detail in the backgrounds, while in others it makes the scene fall entirely flat. For example, Beast's big reveal falls flat because the razor sharp picture already shows his features pitch perfectly in the very first scene, and his appearance has no mystery to it whatsoever. The wolf chase also suffers from this, since the colour contrasts are so strong they look more like someone filled different parts of the screen with the Paint fill tool, and it actually makes the animation look worse since the colours don't blend into each other like they're supposed to.
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