Of course, with all successful children's films there are levels and subtexts to keep the parents enthralled as well. Beauty and the Beast excels in this area - by blurring the lines between hero and villain in both Beast and Gaston, Disney introduced a line of moral doubt whose subtlety you may not at first appreciate, especially if you're distracted by the more familiar anthropomorphic buffoonery of the talking furniture.

Picking one highlight out of many on this DVD collector's edition is nigh on impossible. For me, though, the extra song included in the extended cut of the film, "Human Again", is a joy. This is mainly because it feels so natural a piece of the film that it's hard to imagine the film without it any more.