Perhaps unsurprisingly, this is better viewed as a RIfftrax episode than as a standalone movie.
It's got a lot of dumb writing, a lot of dumb character decisions, a lot of goofy concepts, and it's kind of what you'd expect from the poster art - dumb but with some amusing surprises.
What I found most interesting about it was the short bits of stock wildlife footage that was used, just because some animals don't quite look that way anymore, nor do you see that kind of footage really anywhere (sometimes for good reason).
As is explained early on in the film, part of the "safari" the characters go on is to capture wildlife and I'd never seen a zebra roped before this movie. Not something I went looking for, but it was quite the surprise. Probably not pleasant for the zebra, but it's just a visual you never see. (If you feel bad about it, keep in mind that it was a long time ago, and all the people who filmed it are dead now. Of course the zebra is, too.)
There are other cuts of film with rhinos, giraffes, tigers, and other animals in their environment that were probably taken well before Bride and the Beast was made, which probably puts them at least early 50s, if not late 40s or mid 30s.
The rhino stock footage shows rhinos in the wild that still have their horns as they weren't cut to protect them from poachers yet. It shows other wildlife in areas that presumably weren't wildlife parks, nor game preserves.
For that alone, it's somewhat interesting, even though those clips make up only a few minutes of the movie.
As a Rifftrax episode, I'd give it 8/10. Standalone, it's worth 5/10 judging it by so-bad-it's-good standards.
It's got a lot of dumb writing, a lot of dumb character decisions, a lot of goofy concepts, and it's kind of what you'd expect from the poster art - dumb but with some amusing surprises.
What I found most interesting about it was the short bits of stock wildlife footage that was used, just because some animals don't quite look that way anymore, nor do you see that kind of footage really anywhere (sometimes for good reason).
As is explained early on in the film, part of the "safari" the characters go on is to capture wildlife and I'd never seen a zebra roped before this movie. Not something I went looking for, but it was quite the surprise. Probably not pleasant for the zebra, but it's just a visual you never see. (If you feel bad about it, keep in mind that it was a long time ago, and all the people who filmed it are dead now. Of course the zebra is, too.)
There are other cuts of film with rhinos, giraffes, tigers, and other animals in their environment that were probably taken well before Bride and the Beast was made, which probably puts them at least early 50s, if not late 40s or mid 30s.
The rhino stock footage shows rhinos in the wild that still have their horns as they weren't cut to protect them from poachers yet. It shows other wildlife in areas that presumably weren't wildlife parks, nor game preserves.
For that alone, it's somewhat interesting, even though those clips make up only a few minutes of the movie.
As a Rifftrax episode, I'd give it 8/10. Standalone, it's worth 5/10 judging it by so-bad-it's-good standards.