Belle's Magical World

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Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World
The Special Edition DVD Cover
Directed by	Cullen Blaine Daniel de la Vega Barbara Dourmashkin Dale Kase Bob Kline Burt Medall Mitch Rochon
Produced by	Bob Kline David W. King
Written by	Alice Brown Richard Cray Carter Crocker Sheree Guitar Chip Hand
Starring	Paige O'Hara Robby Benson Gregory Grudt
Music by	Harvey Cohen
Distributed by	Walt Disney Home Video
Release date(s)	February 17, 1998
Running time	70 min. (original); 92 min. (Special Edition)
Country	USA
Language	English
Preceded by	Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
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Belle's Magical World is a 1998 Disney film. It is known as the third movie in the Beauty and the Beast trilogy.

Belle's Magical World (later retitled Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World) is a second direct-to-video midquel to Disney's 1991 movie Beauty and the Beast. Originally released on February 17, 1998, it features the voices of Paige O'Hara as Belle, Robby Benson as The Beast, Jerry Orbach as Lumiere, David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth, and Anne Rogers, who replaced Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Potts. The movie features two songs performed by Belle, Listen With Our Hearts and A Little Thought.

Due to its rather low quality of animation, it is believed that Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World is in fact a compilation of four surviving episodes of Disney's planned but failed Beauty and the Beast TV show, which would have been about Belle's adventures in the Beast's castle.

When it was first released, in 1998, this movie was called Belle's Magical World and consisted of three connected segments called The Perfect Word, Fifi's Folly and The Broken Wing. For 2003 Special Edition, released on February 25, the title was changed to Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World (similar to how The Return of Jafar became Aladdin: The Return of Jafar in 2005), and another segment called Mrs. Potts' Party was added to those other three, making the movie 22 minutes longer.

Contents 1 Segments 2 Trivia 3 Voice actors and their characters 4 See also

[edit] Segments

• The Perfect Word – the dinner between Belle and the Beast goes wrong but neither wants to make the first move and apologize. Three enchanted objects, Webster the dictionary, La Plume the pen, and Crane the pile of papers, want to make things alright between the two of them and write a fake letter of apology from Beast to Belle. Upon reading the letter, Belle apologizes to the Beast, and everything is alright until Beast finds out that the letter is forged. He then banishes the three objects out of the castle, but Belle teaches him to forgive them because their intentions were good.

• Fifi's Folly – Lumiere wants to prepare something special for the fifth anniversary of his date with Fifi the featherduster, but isn't very good at it, so he enlists Belle's help. Fifi, mistaking the preparations for an actual romance between Belle and Lumiere, becomes jealous, but in the end everything is cleared out.

• Mrs. Potts' Party – Mrs. Potts is very depressed, so Belle and other enchanted objects decide to cheer her up with a surprise party. Planning a surprise party isn't very easy when you have to make sure that the Beast doesn't wake up and that Mrs. Potts doesn't find out about the party, especially when there's Cogsworth and Lumiere's rivalry present.

• The Broken Wing – Belle doesn't show up for the lunch Beast ordered her to come to, and instead cares for the wounded bird. Since the Beast loathes birds, Belle has to teach him to accept it, which in the end she manages to do.

[edit] Trivia

• It is revealed that the featherduster's name is Fifi. In Beauty and the Beast she is credited as featherduster, while in the Broadway version of Beauty and the Beast she's known as Babette.
• For "The Perfect Word," screenwriter Richard Cray created two original Disney characters who did not exist in either the original stage or screen versions of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: Webster, an enchanted talking dictionary, and Chandeliera, an enchanted talking chandelier. Use of the name "Webster" was cleared through Disney's legal department, who got consent from publisher Merriam-Webster.

[edit] Voice actors and their characters

• Paige O'Hara - Belle
• Robby Benson - The Beast
• Jerry Orbach - Lumiere
• David Ogden Stiers - Cogsworth
• Anne Rogers - Mrs. Potts
• Kimmy Robertson - Fifi
• Jo Anne Worley - Wardrobe
• Gregory Grudt - Chip
• Frank Welker - Sultan
• Jim Cummings - Webster
• Jeff Bennett - Crane
• Rob Paulsen - Laplume
• April Winchell - Chandeleria

[edit] See also

• List of animated feature films
• Movie/DVD Review at UltimateDisney.com

v • d • e Disney direct-to-video animated features
Sequels, Prequels and Midquels
The Return of Jafar (1994) • Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996) • Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) • Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) • Belle's Magical World (1998) • Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998) • The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998) • An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000) • The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000) • Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (2001) • Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002) • 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003) • The Lion King 1½ (2004) • Mulan II (2005) • Tarzan II (2005) • Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005) • Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005) • Kronk's New Groove (2005) • Bambi II (2006) • Brother Bear 2 (2006) • The Fox and the Hound 2 (2006) • Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007) • The Little Mermaid III (2007)
Films based on TV series
Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving (1999) • Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001) • Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street (2001) • Mickey's House of Villains (2002) • Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year (2002) • Tarzan & Jane (2002) • Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade (2003) • Recess: All Growed Down (2003) • Leroy & Stitch (2006)
TV Pilots
Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken (1995) • Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off (1997) • Hercules: Zero to Hero (1998) • Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins (2000) • Stitch! The Movie (2003) • Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003)
Other
Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) • Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004) • Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004) • Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004) • Tinker Bell (2007)